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Old 07-26-2007   #87 (permalink)
BrianFantana
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Default Re: Atheist or Agnostic?

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Originally Posted by Charbucks View Post
Voice - I'm just wondering, when your enlightenment/communicating with the universe occurred, was it something that you actively sought, or was it a spontaneous dawning of realization? If it's the former, have you ever considered that maybe you are just believing what you want to believe as much as the rest of us close-minded skeptics who don't believe anything that isn't peer-reviewed?
This is what I began to think yesterday as I left the office, only I had a number of scenarios. Are you sure it's not an undiagnosed tumor communicating with you? Do you "hear" this communication, or does it just "appear" as a part of your thought? There are a number of possibilities to explain your "communication", but you have not named one, so please do.

The main problem I've having is that you (Voice) claim I am close-minded, whereas I believe myself to be very open-minded, but that is dependent upon reason. If there was any reason to what you are claiming, I would be very much in support. But the claim that the universe communicates with you in a way that cannot be explained, is, well, unreasonable; any number of arguments can be ended this way (circular logic). To say that my apartment building has consciousness is unreasonable; concrete and metal and plaster do not live, think, or feel. This lack of reason is why I cannot put much credence in what you say. Please impart some manner of it to this.
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