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Personal experience
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RE: Personal experience
Whilst I agree with the basic principle of what you're saying, I also agree with tackattack that you can't experience an absence of something. To say that we can seems to be of the same kind of vague, meaningless, metaphysical mumbo-jumbo as religious experience. It's unclear how we could perceive such a thing.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken

'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.

'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain

'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 12, 2010 at 5:53 pm
RE: Personal experience - by theVOID - August 12, 2010 at 6:12 pm
RE: Personal experience - by fr0d0 - August 14, 2010 at 8:25 pm
RE: Personal experience - by DiRNiS - August 12, 2010 at 6:27 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Ace Otana - August 12, 2010 at 6:28 pm
RE: Personal experience - by solja247 - August 12, 2010 at 8:21 pm
RE: Personal experience - by DiRNiS - August 12, 2010 at 8:40 pm
RE: Personal experience - by annatar - August 12, 2010 at 9:04 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Eilonnwy - August 12, 2010 at 8:37 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 12, 2010 at 10:46 pm
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 12, 2010 at 10:48 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Eilonnwy - August 12, 2010 at 11:11 pm
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 12, 2010 at 11:19 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Eilonnwy - August 13, 2010 at 9:18 am
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 13, 2010 at 2:13 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 12, 2010 at 10:52 pm
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 12, 2010 at 11:07 pm
RE: Personal experience - by downbeatplumb - August 14, 2010 at 6:22 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 12, 2010 at 11:59 pm
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 13, 2010 at 12:40 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 13, 2010 at 3:22 am
RE: Personal experience - by Eilonnwy - August 13, 2010 at 9:24 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 13, 2010 at 1:21 am
RE: Personal experience - by solja247 - August 13, 2010 at 2:40 am
RE: Personal experience - by annatar - August 13, 2010 at 12:44 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 13, 2010 at 4:18 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 13, 2010 at 6:02 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 13, 2010 at 6:27 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 13, 2010 at 8:00 am
RE: Personal experience - by Edwardo Piet - August 13, 2010 at 7:43 am
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 13, 2010 at 1:44 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 4:06 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 14, 2010 at 4:25 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 4:35 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 14, 2010 at 6:04 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 7:54 am
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 14, 2010 at 10:59 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 14, 2010 at 12:39 pm
RE: Personal experience - by chasm - August 14, 2010 at 1:12 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 3:57 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 14, 2010 at 5:44 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 14, 2010 at 6:37 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 8:09 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 14, 2010 at 8:39 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 14, 2010 at 11:14 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 15, 2010 at 12:45 am
RE: Personal experience - by DiRNiS - August 15, 2010 at 1:42 am
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 15, 2010 at 3:23 am
RE: Personal experience - by DiRNiS - August 15, 2010 at 8:39 pm
RE: Personal experience - by KichigaiNeko - August 15, 2010 at 8:02 am
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 16, 2010 at 8:55 am
RE: Personal experience - by Minimalist - August 16, 2010 at 10:12 am
RE: Personal experience - by The Omnissiunt One - August 16, 2010 at 10:25 am
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 16, 2010 at 3:26 pm
RE: Personal experience - by The Omnissiunt One - August 16, 2010 at 3:33 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Captain Scarlet - August 16, 2010 at 3:47 pm
RE: Personal experience - by Edwardo Piet - August 16, 2010 at 3:42 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 16, 2010 at 5:28 pm
RE: Personal experience - by theVOID - August 16, 2010 at 5:31 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 16, 2010 at 6:15 pm
RE: Personal experience - by fr0d0 - August 16, 2010 at 9:14 pm
RE: Personal experience - by tackattack - August 17, 2010 at 1:33 am
RE: Personal experience - by fr0d0 - August 17, 2010 at 6:49 am
RE: Personal experience - by Eilonnwy - August 17, 2010 at 8:25 am
RE: Personal experience - by RachelSkates - August 23, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Personal experience II - the sequel - by Captain Scarlet - August 16, 2010 at 6:23 pm
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by tackattack - August 16, 2010 at 6:51 pm
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by Minimalist - August 16, 2010 at 7:58 pm
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by theVOID - August 16, 2010 at 8:07 pm
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by fr0d0 - August 16, 2010 at 10:07 pm
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by ib.me.ub - August 17, 2010 at 3:45 am
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by tackattack - August 17, 2010 at 6:58 am
RE: Personal experience II - the sequel - by fr0d0 - August 17, 2010 at 7:45 am

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