RE: Theists, are you immune to being decieved?
December 19, 2013 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2013 at 5:49 pm by Violet.)
(November 18, 2013 at 5:05 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Strictly speaking, "How do you know you're not delusional?" can only be responded to with an assumption by anyone. If you were delusional, you might not know it. You could be undergoing an extremely potent hallucination, after all.
And sometimes you're undergoing many extremely potent hallucinations, all at once. Reality is usually pretty easy to pick out, but may the gods help you if you are in a situation where it is not so 'easy'.
(December 19, 2013 at 5:18 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Has any theist ever heard of Thomas Hobbes?!!!!
Perception people!!!!!
Sometimes it seems as though Theists read Descartes, and closed their philosophy books. Read the next chapter!
Yes. Unfortunately, I cannot think of a reason you've brought him into this.
Except Descartes didn't take it far enough, and was too focused upon himself to realize the truth.
Think a little bit, TRS
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
