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To: The Philosopher who wrote (42832)	6/30/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I would say that the simplest explanation for these phenomena is that a lot of people really, really, want to believe in God. It is also important to observe that the higher one moves up the scales of education and intellectual activity, the more unbelievers one finds. From this can we deduce that desire to believe in God is inversely proportional to the availability of alternative explanations for natural phenomena?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42832)	6/30/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

some very astute, very intelligent, people have reported personal experiences of interactions with God. It is interesting to observe that those who report personal interactions with God are inevitably those who already believe in God. Nonbelievers report mystical experiences, but attribute them to contact with their own or a collective subconscious, or in other ways. The simplest explanation would be that mystical experience will occur in a proportion of humans living under any belief system; attribution of mystical experience is simply a function of preexisting belief.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42832)	6/30/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christopher, your post was neither logical nor reasonable. Are you a woman? Hahahahahahahaha... Joan

To: The Philosopher who wrote (42832)	6/30/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

Occam was a bishop, nanny nanny boo boo <edit> Friar. Close enough, heeheehee