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Old 02-25-2019, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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I do eat guac, because the flavor-free avocado's texture makes a fine medium to hold the the rest of the ingredients that provide the flavor. Are we good?
Whew...why didn't you say so before? LOL
Oh man, what a relief.
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Old 02-25-2019, 10:57 AM
 
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It is a neat card for some to have in a 'debate' because you get to behave as if you know all the while proclaiming you do not know.
Not knowing 8f there is a God is the honest statement to make, if one is truly wanting to br honest. Not seeing any evidence for a God means I need to decide if I must live my life as either a Lutheran or a Suni Muslim would be ridiculous. I behave in much the same way as I would if I was a believer hence your statement is a baseless assertion. The correct position if you don't know if something exists is to not except it's existence until their is satisfactory evidence for its existence, otherwise you end up accepting everything. If you don't know for sure if a God exist why not accept all the Gods?
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Old 02-25-2019, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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If you don't know for sure if a God exist why not accept all the Gods?
Or a person could do what it takes to be sure, that a Supernatural Infinite Being that
created all this ..exists. Just a thought. Either or...one seems lazier than the other.

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Old 02-25-2019, 01:13 PM
 
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Inside the mind or conveyed there through sensory mechanisms to the mind. That has really been understood for a long while. What we are really talking about here, Miss H. is not the stuff we think we can explain that gets into the head, but the stuff we can't explain and whether we have any good reason to think that this is mental revelations of a reality that we don't know about but suspect that our ideas of gods and heavens might be giving us an insight. Perhaps misinterpreted (see the parable of the Blind men and the elephant) but telling us Something Real, and not a human delusion.

That's really what it's about, isn't it?
What it's really about is whether or not the brain can sense Reality other than through the known sensory pathways. The hint of the brain's sensitivity to measurable EM fields suggests that it can, so it is not unreasonable to suspect that it can sense unmeasurable EM fields like a consciousness field that comprises the unified field establishing our Reality. Since I have sensed it on more than one occasion, I personally "know" it does. YMMV.
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Old 02-25-2019, 04:47 PM
 
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Or a person could do what it takes to be sure, that a Supernatural Infinite Being that
created all this ..exists. Just a thought. Either or...one seems lazier than the other.
why does it have to be supernatural?

unless of course you just mean unknown.
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Old 02-25-2019, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Hickville USA
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I can't say for certain that there absolutely is not a god, but I sure can say that the non-evidence points to there not being one.
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Old 02-25-2019, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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why does it have to be supernatural?
unless of course you just mean unknown.
Yeah, its just a word people use to say unknown, the unseen....maybe from the Other Side.
Me? I think the supernatural is natural and pretty come place in my life....Oh the stories I could tell!!!
But not to this crowd...hahahah
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Old 02-25-2019, 08:27 PM
 
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I can't say for certain that there absolutely
is not a god, but I sure can say that the non-evidence points to there not being one.
Yeah. I know why 'He' does that, so I'm cool with it....bugs many, tho.
And thanks for posting here.
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Old 02-25-2019, 10:28 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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What it's really about is whether or not the brain can sense Reality other than through the known sensory pathways.
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The hint of the brain's sensitivity to measurable EM fields suggests that it can,
Does it? I think that's taking the 'hint' rather too far.

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so it is not unreasonable to suspect that it can sense unmeasurable EM fields like a consciousness field that comprises the unified field establishing our Reality.
It is indeed unreasonable to suggest anything of the kind. It is merely a hypothesis going beyond even the 'hint' that you put far too much weight on above.

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Since I have sensed it on more than one occasion, I personally "know" it does. YMMV.
You personally believe that it does. You have given no valid reason why anyone else should believe it.
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Old 02-26-2019, 06:24 AM
 
Location: TX
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Sounds like a trap. Does anyone here really say they know there's no god?

Wait a second. This is city-data.com, of course someone does. Where are you?
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