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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (537829)	2/9/2004 10:47:57 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I almost feel sympathy for you....what you described as a deeply religious experience (and for you, it may have been) is not any different than experiences shared by almost any couple who have been together a long time.... It was no "religious" experience, and I never claimed it was. It was a natural experience that gave a hint of the future possibility of two beings, cut off from one another by nature, finding unity as One thing. Because I know God, it is to me a glimmer, in nature, of what He is beyond Nature. Though you do not know God, it ought to indicate at least the distinct possibility of Something that is in substance the same Unity you claim to have with your wife. You actually claim to sense your wife in yourself, even using language like "telepathy." Of course there is no proof of such a thing, no objective evidence at all for it, and such evidence is impossible to ever produce - and yet you flatly claim it exists even in yourself and that it is ubiquitous. You really ought not feel sorry for me. The truth is before you, but you are lost. My wife and I are so melded together that we very often don't have to speak to communicate...I don't think there is enough evidence to show the validity of mental telepathy but we have had so many experiences, I'm beginning to think it may be possible. After all, it would only be wireless communication. Utter stupidity. It would not "only be wireless communication." In your world, it would be magic. You sound like a friggin' nut. I think if you want to attribute your experiences to your beliefs that's just fine with me, and I'm happy to hear you thinking as to why it happened. It's your conclusion that I think is misdirected. Dear me. You are lost indeed. You actually claim experience in magic, this, with your wife and yet you whine about "belief" when you can prove not even squat. You sound like a religious nut. I am the superior person here. I have sensed unity on earth with my wife, and I have also sensed it with God. Neither are strange to me. Both are explainable, and when upon learning that my God has unity with two other Persons in the same way that I have unity here on earth (but with greater perfection) and when upon learning that He is fitting me for the same unity with others who know Him, I need no other evidence for what my afterlife will be. You on the other hand claim this "magic" with your wife. You cannot explain it. It seems like "telepathy," though you have no evidence for it, cannot possibly prove it. You claim it is ubiquitous, though you cannot possibly give any more fitting evidence for such a thing than I can give for my relationship with God, and yet you whine about my "beliefs" and my being a "religious nut". Dear sir, you are lost.