(May 8, 2013 at 8:46 pm)LaffinAtchu Wrote: You know, in order for all of you to be atheists, you must have experienced this type of abnormal/paranormal/spiritual activity.
I don't see why.
Quote:Otherwise, for you to just assume it's gibberish is to conform to the intellect of scientists that you do not even know personally... which I abhor.
Why is it abhorrent to, after reasoned thought, defer to the experts and accept their findings?
Quote:Know why? It denies reason and accountability of former believers of any faith and makes their experiences into nothing.
It makes them into people who are sadly deluded, or pressured, or have not-so-sadly acted deviously. I know what religious experiences feel like, though I have not spoken in tongues, and they were incredible; they just weren't supernatural although I believed them to be such. I have taken the experiences of myself and others, and I have thought about them, and I have concluded that speaking in tongues is no different. It doesn't lessen the experience or mean that I consider the speaker less intelligent, it just means that I think the experience had a different cause and the speaker is not aware of it, or is aware of natural causes but for other reasons assumes their experience was supernatural.
Quote:I consider this not only immature but unfavorable to the cause of searching and finding if there truly is no God. So until each and every one of you can testify from your own mouths that it is gibberish from your own practicing, I will assume that you are denying a higher being's language/aura/communication that you do not understand.
It takes far less assumption to assume that there is no supernatural cause.
Ponders too much; thinks too little.
