Can I bully you, here?
You're an atheist for years... all of a sudden, you have some experience, non-material experience, and jump the gun to believing it was of divine origin....
I wish to ask you what you have already outlined and should have asked yourself:
If you were an atheist, what happened to this process from your point of view?
You then proceed to say that
Putting 2 and 2 together, I see a mentally challenged person who fails to apply critical thinking to his/her own mental experiences... notice how I use "mental" too often in this post.
TLDR: Your mental problem may have triggered your experience, ever think of that?
You're an atheist for years... all of a sudden, you have some experience, non-material experience, and jump the gun to believing it was of divine origin....
I wish to ask you what you have already outlined and should have asked yourself:
(April 19, 2013 at 4:09 pm)Love Wrote: You are obviously endeavouring to conceptualise my subjective experience, which is obviously very difficult for anybody. This is what I find with rationalism and reason; I very much doubt that there could ever be anything that would ever convince you that God is exists, as I am sure you would apply skeptical analysis such as: is this an hallucination derived from neural biochemistry? Or: how can I be sure it is god?
If you were an atheist, what happened to this process from your point of view?
You then proceed to say that
(April 19, 2013 at 4:20 pm)Love Wrote: I also suffer from severe mental illess, which is a very severe form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I also suspect that I have a mild form of Asperger's Syndrome
Putting 2 and 2 together, I see a mentally challenged person who fails to apply critical thinking to his/her own mental experiences... notice how I use "mental" too often in this post.
TLDR: Your mental problem may have triggered your experience, ever think of that?