RE: Gnostic v. Agnostic
May 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2013 at 9:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 12, 2013 at 8:45 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: Because if there is an afterlife, I think we'll notice.
Oh, so granting one very specific vision of the supernatural...and perhaps not realizing that an afterlife is not interchangeable with a god...and presuming you woke up in it one day...you would just jump to god?
Forgive me for being so bold, but I'd be willing to bet that granting an afterlife, you'd still require exactly what you would require here for "knowing" whether or not there was a god. Whether that's nothing (in the case of the faithful) or something (in the case of the skeptic). Even further, if you know here that you cannot absoltuely trust your experience what would change that scenario then? Is the spirit mind more reliable? What removes the barrier to knowledge that exists here, supposing you found yourself there? If you were capable of knowing there, why not here?
I'm not grilling you, not earnestly, because I realize that some of this is just meh for you. Just trying to highlight all of the oddness in this conjecture.
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