(April 30, 2013 at 9:22 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: If God can be percieved rationally he is contingent upon certain logical restrictions. If he cannot be percieved logically, it is an irrational, illogical belief.
I have never claimed that God can be perceived rationally, except in cases where we are theoretically reflecting on the concept of God or having a conversation like this. One of the core themes of this thread is my argument that rationalism/reason has limits. Of course, reason cannot be avoided whilst having this exceedingly interesting discussion via textual language. I believe that human beings can experience God by transcendental consciousness. That is, transcending beyond the sensory system into a state of infinite awareness, an experience that can be augmented by the use of psychedelic drugs like mescaline or DMT.
(April 30, 2013 at 9:22 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: Example: Seeing my face melt off without causing harm to my body can only be achieved by taking LSD. It doesn't mean it actually happened.
I think psychedelic drugs provide people with the opportunity to expand consciousness beyond reason, into a conscious state that I feel is literally beyond the limits of rational human language. In a word "indescribable". Of course, if you're only interested in using them for recreational purposes, then you're going to reflect on the experience from that frame of reference. I used psychedelic drugs for mystical experience and consciousness expansion.
(April 19, 2013 at 3:38 pm)Love Wrote: Nope, but I have a picture of me holding my son. I watched him laugh this morning as he made my dog chase a light up and down the hall way. When I tucked him in bed last night, he told me he loved me and even showed me in sign language with his hand. He woke me up this morning and told me he didn't want me to go to work because he wanted to stay home and play with me. I didn't wake up one day and all of the sudden begin describing the feelings associated with my actual son and assign them to a character I read in a book.
Is there anything in life that you just "know" based on pure intuition? Or do you always require empirical evidence to gain knowledge about something?
