RE: Is god real?
February 21, 2013 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2013 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 21, 2013 at 12:41 pm)pocaracas Wrote: oh, yeah, if we settle for that, then... yes, all collective hallucinations are real.
Hence all "personal experiences of god" (whichever god you want) are real.
And as a corollary, any agreed upon god is real.
At least as real as Gandalf, The Incredible Hulk, pixies, fairies, elves, and, yes, even invisible pink unicorns.
Well, simmer down now. Sure, the experience of a collective hallucination can easily be called real. The collective hallucination occured, yes? Doesn't mean that the contents of that experience were real, and of course it only takes a single naysayer or inconsistency in said hallucination to make this distinction. Insofar as Gandalf, The Incredible Hulk, pixies, fairies, elves, and yes....even pink unicorns all exist -at the very least- in this post, easily satisfies the conditions for something being "real". I don't expect to find any of those things in my backyard of course, unless I leave Grimms out there for some odd reason.
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