Yes I pick on all religions.

[Brian37]

I'd still like to know what the hell Brian is talking about when he says "what you just said right here" and quotes me as saying something I didn't actually just say, or anything even remotely close to (where did he get the topic of "universal consciousness" from all this?). Looks to me like he either made an honest mistake and misquoted me, or else he's extremely disingenuous and proving his inability to have a "big boy" discussion.

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You don't think the psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists and philosophers at the elite schools accept and understand (at least to some degree) mental compartmentalization?

There certainly no lack of experiments that demonstrate it.

That's really a non-sequitur. Of course, we as human beings do that. However, much of the divide among laypeople and academics stems from differences in worldview, which involve philosophical disagreements, and I think those can be both thoughtful and thoughtless on either side.

That might of been a miss edit on my part. It was part of a longer exchange between two people in a thread. If you did not claim the universe was a giant consciousness itself, then I must have quoted the wrong person. I was trying to slim down that big post where the quote was taken from in edit.

The argument itself still would stand though. I still would see no difference between claiming a god or the universe being a giant consciousness. I am sorry however for the confusion.

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Yes I agree, I don't have any beliefs in any god, but I do feel there is a collective universal consciousness that we are all one in. This idea of a universal consciousness is something I cannot prove

In post #216 of this thread. Sorry about the miss edit.