(May 14, 2012 at 10:29 am)Logic Wrote: It is extremely difficult to explain my experiences in the limits of language, but I will endeavour to do so.
Over the past month or so, I have encountered a number of experiences that I attribute to God, so yes I believe that I have encountered God. The experiences are primarily based on emotion. Rather than being an experience of extreme mystical euphoria, which is how most seem to describe it, it was more of a gentle sense of emotional wisdom and having a profound feeling of what is "right". The fact that it feels true, right and profound is important to me. This could obviously be explained by neuroscience as a neural biochemical reaction within the monoamine system in my brain. There have also been instances of synchronicity, which could be explained in a mathematical/probabilistic sense. I have learned to accept what I truly believe deep down, instead of suppressing my beliefs.
Another interesting question: I define Christianity as an extremely complex system of beliefs. To sum it up into a simple sentence, the central messages that I see in Christianity are based on being "good", moralistic, forgiving and loving.
So, you realize that your experiences can be explained in other ways - ways which can be shown to actually exist, by the way - and yet you attribute it to god. Well, I guess we can establish that your intellectual integrity is non-existent.
