(September 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(September 28, 2014 at 8:59 pm)psychoslice Wrote: Yes you can read as much evidence about whatever as long as you want, but you will never know the truth of the matter until you have experienced it for yourself.
Do you not understand what evidence is? Evidence is "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid" (from google). Evidence tells me the "truth of the matter". An experience can only do that when it is considered as evidence, and expericences are not always evidence. For example, people praying to God and hearing responces in their heads is an experience. It is not evidence of a God talking back to them.
So if I want to know truth, I need evidence.
My own experience in consciousness was my own evidence, I don't need anyone else's opinion. I have known others who have had the same experience, and if its all in our minds, then so what, that is where the whole idea of life manifests, its all in our mind.
Because the experience was in my own being and then experienced through my mind, I cannot make an argument out of it. Most people don't fully understand the equation E=Mc2, but Einstein did, he experience the equation within himself, in his mind, and then he had to try and put that into an equation. We can read as much as we like about this equation, but if its not fully realized within we will never truly understand it, we would just be parroting what Einstein truly understood.
