Applied Skepticism: When have you gotten through to someone?

[Godhead]

Facts don't change people's minds, not at all. What changes people's minds is their perception of what is fact or what isn't, which is governed by emotion. Every single one of us, atheists just as much as theists, are extremely subjective and ruled by our emotions about a topic. We all have our own way of assessing what we think is the truth, and we can argue about which method is better, but at the end of the day, what we think is ultimately ruled by emotion. This is why converting people to any kind of theism or atheism is a challenge. There's an undercurrent, a subtext where really it's all about how we feel. And it's not about burden of proof because the only proving that goes on is to ourselves. Throughout every discussion between theists and atheists, it's a constant battle of "my emotion tells me the truth" V "no, mine does". But it isn't really a battle, it's always merely a contrast between emotions. This is rarely addressed but it is what goes on beneath the surface. When you "get through to someone", what you're doing is appealing to some part of them that feels the same as you, it's a meeting point of emotions between the two parties, and if you manage to "get through to them", what you're really doing is building on that. This is why no one can really convert anyone to anything, as it is all entirely subjective and emotionally based. It's the same with advertising, they appeal to emotion. Theists feel that there's a god, atheists feel that the universe involves something other than a god.