(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: Your belief that there is no higher existence, God, whatever, is based on the same level as mine, a belief.
Maybe there is a higher existence, God, whatever. If there is, I am in no position to know it. And neither are you.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: No one knows for certain, and I'm certainly not claiming to know. I am however, not above acknowledging that my mind, and everyone's mind, is limited. If it wasn't and we had a total understanding of life, we'd be able to re-create it, we can't. And so our perspective on life is limited to what we can understand and perceive.
That doesn't sound like a good reason to assert the existence of particular things that we can't understand and perceive.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: There are many examples of the unexplainable, especially in NDE's which as I mentioned, are our greatest link to understanding if there is something after this. And no matter what type of scientific explanation you can give, such as the release of DMT upon the moments of death, it can't explain everything, such as people knowing what happened while in a coma, not even in the room, but on the ground floor of the hospital.
'Unexplainable' isn't a synonym for 'supernatural'.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: As much as you'd like to argue that no God exists, you don't know for certain, it's nothing more than a belief, and a one rooted in pessimism at that.
Pessimism and skepticism aren't synonyms, either. The only reason I don't believe your claim is that you can't support it and I've noticed that you can't support it. If you're right, it's purely by coincidence, because you don't know whereof you speak.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: Maybe if you'd stop looking at the glass half empty and spend a little more time not trapped in your mind, which you think you are in control of, which is clearly untrue, because if you were you'd be able to escape the misery you're clearly in, whether you'll admit it or not. The majority of your posts, which resemble a child's attempt at argument, demonstrate this.
I know this isn't directed at me, but that rant makes you look like an example of what you're ranting about.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: If you'd like to believe life can be explained by science, go ahead, but your trapped in the ego of your mind, where it believes it can understand everything, when in fact the examples I gave about hearing and seeing show this. There could be an entire world out there that we'll never experience because we cannot perceive it. It'd be like living in a room of sulfur but not being able to smell it because your smelling sense doesn't exist, and so your refusal to believe it exists. Just because you refuse to believe it, doesn't mean you're right.
Maybe life can't be explained by science. That doesn't mean it can be explained by magic. When you don't know something, the honest thing is to admit that you don't know it, not make stuff up based on guesses and assert it to be true and anyone who agree with your guesses is being unreasonable.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: And I'm not claiming to be right, I'm just not willing to try and base my entire decision on my mind, which is clearly quite limited in this seemingly infinite world.
Whatever it's limits, ultimately our minds are all that we have for certain, and we abandon their use at our own peril.