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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: E who wrote (25263)10/6/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Rick Julian  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
E,

Credulists who justify their belief in a God entity because they "just know" he exists through personal, subjective mental/emotional experiences . . ."

What do YOU really know, beyond your own "subjective mental/emotional experiences"? You know what science has proven, but what has science proven that is not subject to revision? Can Truths and Laws be revised?

Do you or science "know" the nature of the animating force in the universe? You can point to its manifestations (effect), but can you explain the cause? This the most fundamental question of our existence. If science could "know" this, the doors to "reality" would be blown off their hinges. Yet science, the atheists' saviour, doesn't know.

I believe few people (atheists included) "know" anything. One cannot truly know anything until one has personally verified a supposition. The beliefs of most people are a pastiche of what they have heard, or read, or been taught. We flatter ourselves by saying we intellectually "know" anything. Most of us can only purport to know what we directly perceive with our senses, and even then our senses can betray us.

Yet I "know" when I love and am loved, and I "know" love exists.

Knowledge is rather paradoxical don't you think?

Rick

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