RE: Logic tells me God doesn't exist but my heart says otherwise.
October 15, 2014 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2014 at 10:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hehehehe, yeah of course. Bennys angle though is that a person can have a "religious experience" without said experience somehow rubbing up against reality. I don't think that's true. I think the the "religious experience" is subversive on many levels (so I layed out a few). To have a religious experience that didn;t rub up against reality you'd have to have a religious experience akin to "ham sandwiches are made with ham"
-not exactly a common religious experience.
Personally, I think that religious experiences seem to be much more commonly associated with things I'd call a-factual - and that the nature of a religious experiences is as far from factual in it's mechanism and effect as could be imagined. Take some fact, then have a "religious experience" about it...I bet it's just a smidge less factual in your mind than it was beforehand. Even if all that smidge amounted to was a stronger connection to the idea or the truth of the matter based upon an "emotional connection" gained (assuming it wasn't already there as a causative influence for the experience in the first place).
-not exactly a common religious experience.
Personally, I think that religious experiences seem to be much more commonly associated with things I'd call a-factual - and that the nature of a religious experiences is as far from factual in it's mechanism and effect as could be imagined. Take some fact, then have a "religious experience" about it...I bet it's just a smidge less factual in your mind than it was beforehand. Even if all that smidge amounted to was a stronger connection to the idea or the truth of the matter based upon an "emotional connection" gained (assuming it wasn't already there as a causative influence for the experience in the first place).
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