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That is not the point. The point is about whether one is justified in believing a tea pot is CURRENTLY orbiting the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The point is about what we are justified in believing. We are justified to come up with anything we can imagine. We are not justified in be...

SPG wrote, "But when Missionaries come to my door now, I give my testimony of Joseph Smith and send them away." I would like to read your testimony of Joseph Smith if you are willing to share. I share my testimony a lot. But it is always evolving. Joseph Smith got involved in matters of t...

http://www.blackhillsfox.com/content/news/South-Dakota-lawmaker-concerned-about-polygamous-compound-in-his-district-421499473.html "A South Dakota lawmaker is looking for an investigation into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound southwest of Pringle. But, hi...

When my ancestor first joined the church, perhaps in the first couple of years it history, his father was very opposed. His father had come from Germany in the 1770's and was immediately quite successful. His father threatened to disown him, even charged him with stealing a horse that he rode to mee...

If it doesn't work I don't accept that it is part of reality. If it does work then I accept it probably is, but I am always willing to look at new evidence. It's one thing to think of many possibilities, but I don't accept them as part of reality just because I can imagine them. I can imagine the p...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/MagrittePipe.jpg/300px-MagrittePipe.jpg "This is not a pipe." René Magritte was saying that the rendition of a pipe is not a pipe. I'm an illustrator, so I think I understand the process. Magritte probably looked at a real pipe as a mod...

Maksutov wrote:

SPG wrote:If something has absolutely no influence, then it happened and never existed.

So things that don't exist still happen. That's interesting.

Never happened and never existed. grammar error.

I can imagine my living room with and without a coffee table? Do both imaginings represent reality? Yes. When one is making choices, one usually imagines the possibilities. If 10 different options are imagined and one chosen, the 9 others influenced the choice of the one. If by imagining your livin...

You're a lousy mind reader. "We're lost" would be much closer to my thinking. Do you believe that everything you can imagine represents reality? Yes, everything I imagine represents reality. Reality is perception. What I imagine influences my perception. My reality influences your reality.

SPG, I should clarify. While I did recommend Carl Jung for reading, I have always found him disappointing. Jung desperately wanted to believe; his mentor Freud did not. This was a line between them that widened into a chasm. While time has not been kind to Freud or Jung, I think it has been harder ...