(February 15, 2013 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No, there is a difference between not knowing something and assuming just to assume because it sounds nice.
Not everything from the supernatural realm, if it exists for real, seems to be necessarily nice though. And of course you could always end up in some kind of hell which isn't very nice at all. I don't see why this "other realm" can't exist seeing apparently some weird shit has always been experienced by some people somewhere in the world. And of course we quite know why the universe exists or exactly what happens when you die, so there's plenty of scope there for some actual other worldly or extra dimensional shit. Whether any religion has got it all nailed down I'm much less sure, and there are many of them all saying completely things.
(February 15, 2013 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Lots of things we might wish to be true does not mean we assume.
I don't think religious people are wishing God to be real any more than atheists wish he isn't, they just think he is.
(February 15, 2013 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Secondly, agnostic is not a stand alone word. It can go in front of atheist. I am an agnostic atheist.
I'm an agnostic agnostic then, there could well be a God or something like that, there are some cracking good arguments on that side of the fence I'm sitting on.
(February 15, 2013 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am a flat out atheist in regards to past and current claims. Nothing presented so far is credible.
The concept of God seems credible to me, miracles slightly less so but it depends whether there is an actual supernatural interactive realm or not. There could be but I wouldn't know. I can't say I've seen a ghost or anything like that, even if I did I wouldn't be sure what I was seeing. But sure some people do experience some stuff, human experience isn't necessarily uniform.
