RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 20, 2014 at 11:24 am
(October 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lek Wrote: Because you don't posses spirituality, you've decided there's no such thing. Billions of people are spiritual, but to you they're either lying or misinterpreting the experience. It goes like this: "Yes. I am spiritual." "No, your not spiritual, liar." "Yes, I experience it daily." "No. Sorry, but what you're experiencing is not spirituality." "But I have a relationship with God." "No you don't. There is no God, so you can't have a relationship with someone who doesn't exist."
If the claimant is unable to demonstrate his proposed phenomena, if it relies solely on his say so, while he exists in a world in which thousands if not millions or billions of other claimants make claims of a similar nature that are nevertheless conflicting with his own, if all we have to go on is personal experience that we ourselves do not have, what reason to we have to entertain the claim at all?
This, by the way, is the same logic that we use to identify mental illness; the mentally ill are another group of people who believe things based on personal experience that are not demonstrable too. You're just lucky that your specific claim has a shield of cultural acceptability around it, Lek.
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