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- From: bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Strong atheism ought to explain theism (Was: Re: Atheism is dogmatic.
- Message-ID: <11213@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:47:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.091314.23002@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <11194@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1993Jan25.093440.12977@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan25.093440.12977@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
- >
- >> If any of the theists in this group have had encounters of this
- >> kind with their god, please post them. I for one have never heard
- >> of such a thing.
- >
- >As for me personally, I am not a mystic or Sufi, but I have spent a
- >reasonable amount of my time the past few years reading about Sufism and
- >reading the writings of Sufis. So I have not had such an experience,
- >but there are people who do claim to have had such an experience. This
- >type of experience of God, is *most definitely* more concrete and real
- >than being just "warm and fuzzy."
-
- While hearsay is interesting, a first hand account would be more
- to my liking. Even then, I would probably remain somewhat
- skeptical, since the number of such mystics is probably so small
- as to be statiscally insignificant compared to the number of
- people who claim religious experiences that are not so tangible.
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- The question then still remains of what to do when I get
- perpendicular reports of god experiences from two or more
- conflicting religions.
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- Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
-
- "Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- doing something wrong?"
- James Nicoll
-
- Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
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