(May 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If we are connected to God, how would I explain atheism? I think it might be like the case where atheists are being held by God, God lives within them, and they are connected to this reality, but they just fail to recognize the phenomenon. They take all the mystical presence as a natural phenomenon.
Yes, if. If you can prove that, then you can try to figure out how atheism fits in. Until that point, trying to figure it out is you starting with a conclusion and then working backward to try to establish your premises.
(May 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: But the believers witnesses something incredible instead. He witnesses the real existing of the universal spirit (god) and it's living reality within us. The howness of this witnessing is hard to explain, but the witness is not only the effect but the link to the source and consequently the existence of the source. It's witnessing is not just a concept in the mind but be consumed into an existence where one is existence but non-existence, manifesting the universal existence. This is by being consumed into the existence of the divine as if witnessing yourself, you witness that being, because you exist through it and you are of that existence.
I honestly have no idea what you're saying here. It's word salad. The best I can pick out is something akin to saying that believers have a strong personal experience, therefore God. A lot of people have strong personal experiences. It doesn't make non-provable ideas living in their heads turn into actual reality.
(May 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: From an Atheistic perspective, is this simply dismissed or do you think it's plausible your perspective is not in tune with the divine because of other factors?
I think it's plausible in the same way that I think it's plausible that unicorns exist in some dark corner of a currently unexplored forest. Just because something is nonfalsifiable doesn't mean I have to take it seriously. Argument from ignorance, and all.
