(August 22, 2013 at 6:50 am)discipulus Wrote: How do you know that when you are communicating with a loved one that it is not an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?
Do you always avoid answering a question by simply posing one of your own? Because it comes across as fearful and evasive and is detrimental to fostering a fruitful discussion.
Besides, I never made the claim that I do know. I can only have a level of certainty based upon my detection of that person with my five sense(yes, I could taste the person if I wanted to) and the fact that others can confirm my detection with their senses, too. Could I still be a brain in a vat? It appears very unlikely, but I never claimed I wasn't.
So, now would you like to back up your claim that you communicate with god, or should I just abandon this conversation before I waste more of my time?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
