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 (August 29, 2015 at 10:07 am)Randy Carson Wrote: But that's not the universal experience, is it? Nope - some people claim to have seen and heard things that they claim to be their god. Again, it comes down to how we might distinguish any real experience from delusion, lies or any other non-real thing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
  (August 29, 2015 at 11:18 am)Stimbo Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 10:07 am)Randy Carson Wrote: But that's not the universal experience, is it? What is your basis for automatically saying that someone has NOT heard from God? Because your presuppositions are that God does not exist and therefore, there MUST be some other explanation. Yeah, that's taking a scientific approach...not.
I'm not automatically saying someone hasn't heard from "God". I'm saying I'm reserving opinion until they demonstrate that they have.
That's taking a scientific approach.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(August 29, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm not automatically saying someone hasn't heard from "God". I'm saying I'm reserving opinion until they demonstrate that they have. Then you are right, and I stand corrected. However, how would someone demonstrate that they had heard from God? Prophecy fulfilled perhaps? Foreknowledge of an event that actually happens? What is acceptable to the scientific mind?
That was my question to you. What is "acceptable" would be whatever supports the claim.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (August 29, 2015 at 10:11 am)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 9:43 am)Brakeman Wrote: Bullshit bullshit bullshit! A man that is soooo drunk that he doesn't remember that his wife is dead and that the only two girls around are his daughters that he can't recognize is not going to be able to "get it up" even once let alone twice in one night. Lying for jeeebuss!
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 (August 29, 2015 at 3:01 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That was my question to you. What is "acceptable" would be whatever supports the claim. if someone says they hear god or what ever it is best to stay 12 feet away from them because they are not mentally okay.
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(August 29, 2015 at 5:13 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 10:11 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Another shining example of your ignorance, brakeman. Twice in one night, brakeman? Really? Genesis 19 30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.” Since Lot is "old" now, some time has passed since the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. The older daughter slept with her father on this first night. 34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. The second daughter went in to sleep with him on the second night. 36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today. |
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