RE: Evidence that God exists
July 29, 2009 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2009 at 1:30 pm by Anto Kennedy.)
I'm only putting forward the option of personal religious experience as acceptable evidence that God exists. You can challenge that on purely rational grounds such as the fact that such religious experiences are unverifiable. The counter challenge would of course be that since these perceptions occur within the mind, then it is only our lack of understanding of the mind preventing these experiences to be verified by a third party, neutral observer under laboratory conditions. And that time may well come soon, here's hoping.
I was, for over seven years living in a cave (not literally, lived in isolation) with little to no human contact, so of course my social skills will be rusty. It was on this journey into the mind that I had my own religious experience, which I believe whole-heartedly can, and will be, recreated under lab conditions.
Our spiritual ancestors mastered the art of inducing religious experiences. That art was forgotten, but if a bunch of hairy stone age barbarians can do it, it should be easy for us "enlightened" men to do it too.
Oh and by the way, when I said "ask and you shall recieve", my toungue was firmly planted in my cheek.
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I was, for over seven years living in a cave (not literally, lived in isolation) with little to no human contact, so of course my social skills will be rusty. It was on this journey into the mind that I had my own religious experience, which I believe whole-heartedly can, and will be, recreated under lab conditions.
Our spiritual ancestors mastered the art of inducing religious experiences. That art was forgotten, but if a bunch of hairy stone age barbarians can do it, it should be easy for us "enlightened" men to do it too.
Oh and by the way, when I said "ask and you shall recieve", my toungue was firmly planted in my cheek.
