(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.Not all beliefs are created equal. Don't teach the "controversy", if you know what I mean.
(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.I still don't understand how a near death experience can show one an afterlife. And when you say "unexplainable", what you really should have said is unexplained. If there are plausible explanations remaining, it would be rather hasty to claim that it cannot be explained.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: 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 everythingPerhaps that particular explanation is incomplete. I still wouldn't declare "MAGIC", until there are no other explanations. MAGIC has never been demonstrated as the correct explanation to anything before. Ever.
(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 beliefSee the top response of this post.
(November 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: , and a one rooted in pessimism at that.Threat of eternal damnation is optimism, then?
(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.
Merriam Webster.com Wrote:1ste·reo·type transitive verb \ˈster-ē-ə-ˌtīp, ˈstir-\In fact, I doubt that such things are any more prevalent in atheists at all.
: to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same
Bolding mine.
(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.More useless mud slinging. Let's take a look at those examples:
(November 26, 2013 at 1:27 am)Natedeezy Wrote: Let me ask you this. We perceive the world through our 5 senses, yet we understand that things exist outside the perception of our senses, dog whistles for example. No person has heard a dog whistle because we cannot hear on that frequency level, and so the understanding that this frequency exists is based on a belief since we've never heard it. Same is true for light. And so isn't it possible that there exists something beyond the limitation of our human perception? Well, the answer is of course, yes. The example about sound describes it.So tell me then, how do we know a dog whistle makes sound? How do we know infrared light exists? Or gamma rays? Just because we can't detect something directly with human senses doesn't mean they can't be detected at all. And yet no scientific instrument has ever detected any sort of god.
(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.
G.K. Chesterton Wrote:“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.