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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Strong atheism ought to explain theism (Was: Re: Atheism is dogmatic.
- Message-ID: <930127.110004.2t6.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:00:04 GMT
- References: <11194@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <77482@apple.apple.COM> <11212@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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- bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >In article <77482@apple.apple.COM> mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
- >>In article <11194@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert
- >>Beauchaine) writes:
- >>> I personally know of no one who makes the claim that their
- >>> experience of god is on the same sensual level as their day to day
- >>> perception of the world around them (well, maybe one, Jarek
- >>> Dabrowski, but that's another topic).
- [...]
- >>I have memories of experiences of beings that I think deserve to be
- >>called gods.
- > You just shot yourself in the foot. There was apparently some
- > discernable factor of the experiences you are recalling that makes
- > them of the variety you know we find unconvincing. Hence, these
- > experiences were not the same as you daily experiences, and don't
- > qualify as the kind to which I was referring.
-
- The key word is "memories". My memories of my day to day perception of the
- world are unconvincing; probably at least as much so as my memories of things
- which (in a naive realist sense) didn't happen.
-
- Sometimes I have had dreams about everyday events, and become confused as to
- which memories are real and which are memories of dreams. Mostly I try not
- to have mundane dreams for exactly this reason.
-
-
- mathew
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