RE: new thread for old Atheists, what do you believe is the best argument for the existence of a deity?
January 6, 2013 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2013 at 5:23 pm by Mark 13:13.)
(January 5, 2013 at 11:04 pm)paulpablo Wrote: yeh i was just trying to say my answer doesnt show i value personal experience over logic it just shows the version of me born over 2000 years ago which is illiterate uneducated and a fish farmer would probably view personal experience over logic if the two things were in disagreement with each other.
Ive had things happen to me which i cant describe logically in recent times which when trying to think about what happened i havent jumped to a supernatural conclusion. Although admitedly none of these were as extreme as seeing a man ascend into heaven or seeing a dead man walking around.
Glad you said that people can have these srt of experiences and I agree you still have a decision to make and as you say you have a choice which way to go but it does make you think. My own brother considers himself an athiest but he may be more on the agnostic athiest end of the scale but he told me a story of what happened to him.
He told me he was in the pub having a discussion about the subject of God and at some point in the discussion he said well if God exists I ask him to show me he does. That night he had a dream when he encountered something he said radiated so much love and brightness that it must have been God.
It didn't change his belief but it must create a niggle, he just passes it of as interesting.
I have always been interested in peoples experiences that are strange so i would love to hear them if you are comfortable with that . Either on this thread or privately.
