Gnostic (07-31-2022)
As your interlocutor I am sure you would not accept personal anecdote, so you discrediting what someone has experienced is a given.
You cannot prove your position, and neither can someone 'prove' theirs, since it is spiritual in nature.
I know what exists. It is not as it may be portrayed by some, but for me, it is enough.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
Peter1469 (08-01-2022)
I can prove my position quite easily because it is reality based.
If you think the imaginings of a fool who believes in the supernatural to be better than thinking in reality, then I offer my sympathy.
Supernatural thinking is stupid thinking.
It prevents a fathers from loving his gay children.
Regards
DP
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
Gnostic (08-08-2022)
I'm not interested in carrying on, only in exposing the fact that the basis of all you say is belief. Belief in evidence. Challenged, you change to belief in testimony. Challenged again, now, what will be your next basis of belief?
Note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with belief, or faith, if we want to distinguish, nothing wrong with it at all.
You just have to wake up and admit it. Then we might compare different belief systems....
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler