RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 11:07 pm by Lion IRC.)
(March 19, 2013 at 10:40 pm)Mr Infidel Wrote:(March 19, 2013 at 10:38 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Having mystical experiences does not make you crazy.
It does when no one else around you experiences the same thing that you do.
Billions of people can corroborate jstrodel's experience.
What objective way do you have of being certain that your brain/mind isnt deluded in its blindness to that which other brains/minds assert as real and is detected by their senses?
I like to use the example of a hot chilli pepper.
The exact same chilli is variously reported by different people as; not hot at all, mildly hot, extremely hot, inedibly hot...and so forth.
Now, if the atheist asserts that "The Chilli" at one end of the sensory spectrum - doesnt taste hot, on what basis can they assert that the person who DOES detect (scoville) heat is mistaken/deluded?
Some folk can eat a red chilli and truthfully claim it is mild and others can equally claim the opposite - that it is inedibly hot.
Likewise, one person can claim to have heard the voice of God and others say they heard nothing.