RE: If you were ever a theist...
January 2, 2016 at 2:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2016 at 2:42 am by Mystic.)
I think it doesn't matter what someone experiences, if they have a certain attitude towards doubt and disbelief. For example, suppose a piece of paper you felt came out of your foot. It had some directions, "Let *insert your name* do this and that". It was in fact in your Mom's hand writing. You go show it to your Mom, and she is baffled on who wrote it, and says this is her hand writing but she didn't write it. And you vividly remember it coming out of your foot.
A skeptic can even doubt such an experience. He may think his mom is tricking him, but, how did she make him feel it came out of his foot? Of course, that had to be a delusional experience, it was just under his foot. So you have two things to doubt - 1. Your mother. 2. Your own experience. It's like your mom knew you would have a delusional experience or wanted you to have it. And then doesn't even say, yeah she wrote it.
So I would say even if you could not be 100% sure, here trusting your mother, and trusting your vivid memory is more important.
It's further complicated when there is direction to go a certain place, and then after becoming a skeptic of faith, you win a two way ticket to that place.
These are signs. They are not perhaps full out signs that you can't deny, but they would be evidence.
Of course, sharing this experience with people who don't believe in God or supernatural, shouldn't be done, because, it's meant to be a proof for you.
But a person can doubt everything one experiences, even though it's more rational to believe in the experiences one experience sometimes.
A skeptic can even doubt such an experience. He may think his mom is tricking him, but, how did she make him feel it came out of his foot? Of course, that had to be a delusional experience, it was just under his foot. So you have two things to doubt - 1. Your mother. 2. Your own experience. It's like your mom knew you would have a delusional experience or wanted you to have it. And then doesn't even say, yeah she wrote it.
So I would say even if you could not be 100% sure, here trusting your mother, and trusting your vivid memory is more important.
It's further complicated when there is direction to go a certain place, and then after becoming a skeptic of faith, you win a two way ticket to that place.
These are signs. They are not perhaps full out signs that you can't deny, but they would be evidence.
Of course, sharing this experience with people who don't believe in God or supernatural, shouldn't be done, because, it's meant to be a proof for you.
But a person can doubt everything one experiences, even though it's more rational to believe in the experiences one experience sometimes.
