(November 21, 2014 at 5:17 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I am quite gnostic that, if I shoot myself in the head, I'll end up dead. Those that disagree, prove me wrong!
Gabriel Giffords.
"On January 8, 2011, a week into her third term, Giffords was a victim of a shooting near Tucson, which was reported to be an assassination attempt on her, at a supermarket where she was meeting publicly with constituents. She was critically injured by a gunshot wound to the head"
People survive gunshots to the head on a regular basis.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.