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[bennyboy]

"We dunno therefore (idea I pulled out of my ass)," is not, contrary to popular belief, a philosophical argument. That you think it is represents an insult to organized thought.

I disagree and believe you to be wrong.

What would you consider a 'philosophical argument' that is not an "idea I pulled out of my ass".

Oh I dunno. . . all the ideas that led to the system of observation we call "science," maybe? How about the rules of logic?

See, if you wanted to speculate about the Godhood of humanity, that's fine; it's fun to smoke a joint, stare at the sky, and wonder about things like that.

But you haven't come here with metaphor or with a "hmmm, what if?" attitude. You've come in here stating, in the grammatic forms used for confident statement of fact, that the "reality" is that we are gods who have forgotten we are gods. You've spent 3 pages unraveling what we "know," making your Gap bigger and bigger; but this is easy to do, because there are so many mysteries to our existence that almost ANYTHING could live in that Gap. What you haven't done is explain why the particular idea you pulled out of your ass necessarily fills it.