(April 4, 2013 at 3:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(April 4, 2013 at 3:32 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: So it's a choice to remain rational and stick to rational thought from my experience.
It's a choice you don't follow new Age people going on about energy and stuff like that. It's a choice my friend. And important one as well.
I don't see how a story about someone who went from one religion to the next establishes this Mystic. He probably maintains that he is - at this very islamic moment- being completely rational..eh?
It's twu, it's twu, it's twu.
There's been a whole lot of asserting and re-asserting going on in this thread.
Well the point you were bringing is whether we choose to believe a person can fly or not if he claims it. My response was from my experience and perspective, yes people do chose.
When I see that person going from Deism to Atheism to Islam, I see him struggling to chose what he believes. I see that struggle, because, as a human, I put myself in his shoes and see choices. Because I've been there with choices.
I felt the need to believe in Mohammad and 12 Imams and that the Quran has been corrupted not too long ago. I even gave into it for a day. All this nice fuzzy feeling came in believing my childhood heroes again. But then I chose to be rational and not given into those emotions.
I tend to hate it when people chose to be irrational when coming across rational arguments and reasoning.
Perhaps you been doing a perpetual decision for a very long time, that it doesn't feel like you are choosing anymore. That doesn't mean you aren't.
