So I got in trouble

[pocaracas]

He may have never been to that part of the forum where we share some more details about ourselves...

From all this exchange between you guys and Drich... I can see one thing...
Drich does not understand the concept of "confirmation bias".... at least when applied to his A.S.K. method.
And you guys have spent... what?... 5 pages?... 10 pages?... multi-combo-threads... trying to explain it to him... even I've tried it!... He just does not get it.

So... let him keep talking about his flawed method... if we pay no mind, he may just go away...
I'd like to keep MrsTRish around, though...

It's like I have to hand hold each and everyone of you through this explaination.
http://www.psychologyandsociety.com/conf...nbias.html

As per the above defination I get what confirm bias is.

How does a/s/k not apply? Because one is a/s/king for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a deity apart from your personality, logic and ability to manage or create order/disorder In Your life.

You have confirmation bias working on different levels here.

One of them is your pre-recognition of the divine... you already believed in god, the god of christianity, the trinity... you were already aware of this god and believed it exists.

Then you had your dream.
Biasing from your prior belief led you to accept it as divine.

And then proceeded to search for more details.
Biasing from your dream made you find the details you wanted in the text.
It is not surprising that others may have written about similar experiences.

Take the famous light at the end of the tunnel experienced by some NDE patients.
If one associates this light with some afterlife place, and the others, previously attuned to acknowledge the divine, come across this interpretation, they will agree with the interpretation, thus strengthening their belief in that divinity.

So, is the light at the end of the tunnel an actual place or is it neurochemistry in the brain of a few people making them see that... or something else?
What seems more likely? (provided we have no actual way of measuring all this)

Confirmation bias looks for evidence that fits a forgone conclusion.

How does this definition fail to describe ask seek knock for the Holy Spirit? Because one need know nothing about God the Holy Spirit or Christianity, to receive the same direction and guidance found in the bible.

Wrong... one needs to know something... that's why someone wrote about it. Had no one wrote a word about it, would you know that you had to do it?
You need to know about the existence of some sort of a divine being... and you need to know that this methodology can lead you to further acknowledging it.
Given that, how do you differentiate the reality of this divinity from "it's all in your head"?

Matter of fact by the admission of many of you, the Christianity I repersent is unknown to most of you. To the point that I have been labeled a heretic by atheists...

So again, how can the term confirmation bias apply if the result is counter the forgone conclusion of what many of you would identify as main stream Christianity.

Well, you must be talking to someone else... to me, christianity is all the same thing... mainstream or mega delusional rabit-hole christianity... they all believe in the existence of a divinity which showed up as a human and got nailed.
I go further and lump christianity with islam, hinduism, buddhism, and any other dead religion...all based on the unsubstantiated assumption that a person's personality/individuality/knowledge/wisdom goes on existing, somehow, after the death of the biological body.
This is wishful thinking... and anything that confirms this wishful thinking is relying on confirmation bias.