Thread: Have you met God while LDing?

Originally Posted by LuxAeterna

My point, again, is simply that in a dream the brain can produce an overwhelming but entirely subjective experience that a person may wrongly mistake as being a divine revelation or epiphany. Such a thing easily happens in a dream, while in real life such a false experience would be either drug related or the result of psychosis.

Psychosis such as faith?

Originally Posted by Mark75

Psychosis such as faith?

Mark75, how can you be so sure that their is no God? You said in one of your posts that there is no such thing as absolute truth. However, from your post on this thread it seems that you know what absolute truth is.

Originally Posted by hapkidoman

Mark75, how can you be so sure that their is no God? You said in one of your posts that there is no such thing as absolute truth. However, from your post on this thread it seems that you know what absolute truth is.

I can be sure that the Christian or similar gods do not exist by virtue that the idea is incompatible with our world. There is no evidence nor good reason to support the existence of this or any god, so for the time being I assume they do not exist.

Originally Posted by Mark75

I can be sure that the Christian or similar gods do not exist by virtue that the idea is incompatible with our world.

That's only true if you assume that the world and a Christian God cannot be reconciled. Then what you have is circular reasoning.

To me, and to many thinkers far greater than me, the idea of God is reconcilable with the world.

There is no evidence nor good reason to support the existence of this or any god,

God is not directly provable by science because science only deals with the material world and God is immaterial. However, for those willing to look, there are many, many events in the history of the world that suggest Divine action.

Furthermore, there are very good, logical reasons for believing in God.

I think that this is my last post on this thread.

-Lux

Originally Posted by LuxAeterna

Furthermore, there are very good, logical reasons for believing in God.

Finally!

Originally Posted by LuxAeterna

I think that this is my last post on this thread.
-Lux

Missed it by that much.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Finally!



Missed it by that much.

Hmm...I don't understand. So, I have to ask: What do you mean, what are you trying to say here?

-Lux

Originally Posted by LuxAeterna

Hmm...I don't understand. So, I have to ask: What do you mean, what are you trying to say here?

-Lux

Well, see, I've never heard a good, logical reason to belive in god, and I was sarcastically pretending that we were finally about to hear one, if only you hadn't decided that was your last post. Hence, "missed it by that much", like Max always said on Get Smart.

Originally Posted by Mark75

Psychosis such as faith?

Faith is not psychosis.

Originally Posted by The Dictionary

psy·cho·sis
A severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning.

-Lux