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Jersey Girl wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:01 am

Intellectually incurious doctor who doesn't care that a man was tortured to death in broad daylight on camera.

If you are referring to Ajax he is not a Doctor.

People recognizing what they are taught is a significant element in the persistence of the supernatural beliefs. Especially, when the immaterial can be explained only within cultural or familial lines, while science can replicate its material findings across ALL cultural and familial lines, it beco...

I don't agree that it is more rational. A world view that relies on the pleonastic fallacy and questionable a priori assumptions is not really more rational. It is an ideology, really, one that is based on a narrow positivism. A lot of things have combined to vault this hard materialism to the peak...

As for eliminating the "body did it" explanation, I would say that people who are trained to identify certain feelings as divine in origin are unlikely to leap to the "body did it" explanation, while those who have made that leap often see it as the only rational explanation. Both could be wrong. B...

Yes, there is a lot we do not understand about the senses, the mind, and the human experience in general. I am no longer so sure about the body creating these experiences on its own, or that we should dismiss experiences on this basis. It's not the experience to question, but maybe the interpretati...

I don’t agree. One does not have to “believe” or conceptualize God as a person in order to see right behavior as a desirable thing. God is not elf on a shelf in every theological system. I never said one did. One can believe God as anything they like and still see right behavior as a desirable thin...

The body appears to have the capacity on it's own to create powerful experiences. Experiences that can create the feeling of knowing or understanding. Psychedelics can reproduce many of these kinds of experiences. The best position may be to have a healthy amount of skepticism of what we think we k...

I am not sure what the issue is. The existence of God versus what kind of God you care about are different questions and the second was not really what I was talking about. My OP which you responded to was my response to PG's post about looking to God for help in how to live. This kind of God would...

Seriously, though, the heuristic in this case is simply the decision to not take stories of supernatural events at their face value. Once one understands the source of stories like this, they become very similar and one doesn't need to take up one’s time evaluating every little piece. And by unders...

And all of the language you are using, leaving Bigfoot aside, is anthropomorphizing. "God being interested in us . . . ." It's the only kind of God for us to be interested in regards to how we live our life. All the rest either don't care or don't have that or other human traits. Joking aside, it a...