RE: Faith is a measure of irrationality
July 2, 2014 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2014 at 2:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I have a very humble suggestion, as per most of the analogies you might offer ntw Ron. Perhaps they aren;t working because the operator in each analogy - what makes the analogy work - itself - is generally material. Because you have alot of experience with the material, your explanations are going to be colored by your experience (obviously). When you try to shift that operator over into the immaterial - the analogy, the reasoning in it - breaks down as an inevitable result.
The question one might ask, is if all of these experiences seem analogous to some other material experience (which is what your explanations would suggest) - then I fail to see why you have decided that these experiences are somehow connected to the immaterial - the spirit, god..whatever. You are describing them exactly as though they were workaday normal things....so why shouldn't I conclude that they are, in fact - just that?
The question one might ask, is if all of these experiences seem analogous to some other material experience (which is what your explanations would suggest) - then I fail to see why you have decided that these experiences are somehow connected to the immaterial - the spirit, god..whatever. You are describing them exactly as though they were workaday normal things....so why shouldn't I conclude that they are, in fact - just that?
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