(May 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Love Wrote: I have never claimed that God can be perceived rationally,Then you agree God is an irrational concept
(May 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Love Wrote: except in cases where we are theoretically...Nope...it's irrational here too. The same could be said of Santa if I were talking to a child. Discussing it doesn't make it reasonable, you'd have to show a reason for that.
(May 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Love Wrote: I used psychedelic drugs for mystical experience and consciousness expansion....I'll comment on this at another time.
(May 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Love Wrote: IIs there anything in life that you just "know" based on pure intuition?No. Neither do you. You may guess something accurately, but every decision or prediction you make (aside from this one) is based on some sort of verifiable data.
"A man that holds a true belief without knowledge is like a blind man that happens to find the right way"-Plato
(May 1, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Love Wrote: I Or do you always require empirical evidence to gain knowledge about something?Faith is a misleading concept. Don't conflate possibility with plausibility or probability. Faith is the first one and only because that which requires it, is inherently unfalsifiable. I don't classify unfalsifiable claims as knowledge and certainly wouldn't bet on them in any way shape or form. It's irrational.
