RE: Believing Vs Claiming to Believe
November 15, 2013 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2013 at 12:42 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(November 14, 2013 at 5:47 pm)Godschild Wrote: Verified by you! Does it matter if it is verifiable by anyone else, as long as you know it's true. Others on this site portray me as something I'm not, I know that I'm not like they say and as long as God and I know this it matters not, verifiable by God and myself, all that matters.I think that I’ve figured it out. You don’t know the difference between objective and subjective beliefs. You think that God exists in the way that you may have a preferred flavor of ice cream. True, chocolate may be the best flavor to you, and it doesn’t matter if anyone agrees because its true only within your own personal experience of what ice cream tastes like.
God is an objective claim. He either exists, or he doesn’t.
If he exists outside of your mind, it should be verifiable by me, or anyone else that doesn’t know what you claim to know. But you’ve made it abundantly clear that God exists in your mind, “soul”…etc. If it’s true that you think he exists, then it is apparent that he exists only in your mind as a product of your own personal experience. God being real to you is no different than what you think is real pertaining to other subjective terms of truth such as taste, music, art…etc.
Being convinced that it’s objectively true while describing it as perfectly subjective brings us back to my question. I hope you try and answer it honestly this time…
(November 14, 2013 at 5:47 pm)Godschild Wrote: I'm as sane as most and more than some on this site…How do you know that you aren’t delusional?
Do delusional people think they are sane? Are they not aware that they are delusional?
I asked how you could know whether or not you were delusional. You’re response was that you are sane. That’s the same as saying , “I know I’m not delusional, because I’m not delusional.”
How do you know you are not delusional? Try to answer this question honestly. This shouldn’t be that hard of a question for you to answer.
(November 14, 2013 at 8:48 pm)Rationalman Wrote:(November 14, 2013 at 5:47 pm)Godschild Wrote: I think we should get something straight before going any further, it's not my responsibility to prove God to you, Jesus instructed for us to share what we have learned. Actually God says that once we have shared it is you who have to decide, that means you have to prove God is not true. In the end this is what it comes down to.
Why do theists have so much trouble with this simply concept. It has been explained to you many times GC: The burden of proof.
You are making the claim that a god exists. We are simply stating we don't believe you. We are not claiming he does not exist, we have no claim.
If you follow your own logic here, you must believe in bigfoot and the lochness monster too. In fact, anything that hasn't been disproved. You find yourself in the ridiculous situation of believing every claim unless it is proven wrong. Unless of course you are a gigantic hypocrite and only apply this kind of thinking to your god.
So which is it? You believe every claim unless proven wrong, or you are a hypocrite.
Here's a good example for you:
Me: I have a real unicorn living in my shed
You: No you don't
Me: You can't prove that I don't
You: OK, I believe you, you must really have a real unicorn in your shed!
If you can't see how ridiculous that is, I worry for the future of the human race
He doesn't understand. Any ability he could use to face this topic critically has been aimed and fixed in a different direction. It's unlikely that he even has the capacity to potentially comprehend these concepts.
Its almost as if his critical thinking skills, while dull, only attacks things with a heat signature, and in his mind, God is wearing a suit that makes him invisible on the infrared. Something will have to happen in order to rattle his cage and get the intellectual juices flowing.