(November 16, 2013 at 4:36 am)ronedee Wrote: I may not be a physicist, or even good at science but I do know the difference between theories based on either hypothesis, or empirical discovery.
However, Einstein isn't the real issue here. What is at issue is your passiveness to my experiences with God. And why?
You have nothing to compare them to, so you avoid them. And focus on your claims about "faith" as "insanity", and "delusion". And of course, my not answering your coercive, and leading questions to your exact specifications.
I'd like to address that but I'll leave aside physics and anything else with academic cache and just tell you what I think is going on with your experiences with God. Understand that having left behind all the conventions of academic discourse, what comes out of my mouth next may seem to you to be "insane", "delusional" or even a load of crap. But that is the risk we take when a couple of guys like us shoot from the hip.
Your awesome brain is bloody miraculous. It keeps afloat your sense of self and agency atop a deep bed of consciousness of which you are unaware, at least not directly. It retrieves appropriate memories and all manner of little background tasks which make our conscious minds feel so competent - even though we don't know how we do those things. In your case -and that of many others- that deep bed of consciousness also produces the autonomous presence of God. Well, autonomous so far as it may seem to you at least.
The God which you interact with is basically 'in your head', just not the part you think of as 'you'. It is as real as 'you' are and as real as any of 'us' for that matter. If you like it this way, and I think you do, don't change a thing.
When you come on an atheist site you have to expect people to try and 'help you' with what seems to them to be a malfunction in your relationship to reality. It is just like the way you try so hard to help us with our relationship with God. But of course we didn't sign on to get the kind of help you offer. And you of course didn't really sign on to get our help. (My theory is you want to help us get in touch with our inner God sub-routine.)
Oh well. To each his own. I hope this mind fuck has been good for you. Got a cigarette?
