There&#39;ll never be closure on whether God exists

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@blanks

It also attempts to unfairly shifts the burden-of-proof to your opponent.
If you are attempting to say that something exists, you have the burden of proof.

You would imagine.

However, if you insist "it doesn't exist", then you must be able to support your claim with logic.

Or modify your claim.

Perhaps something like, "your gods are indistinguishable from non-existent".

If someone claims to have seen gods or heard the voices of gods, you can't "prove them wrong".
You can assume that they are not being truthful, if they have not presented evidence.

No you can't.

It is a violation of Civil Debate to demonize your opponent.

This includes presuming they are being insincere, willfully ignorant, biased, intellectually blind, stupid, evil, or insane, etcetera.

Basically, NO AD HOMINEM ATTACKS.

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@3RU7AL

However, if you insist "it doesn't exist", then you must be able to support your claim with logic.

My claim has always been that there is no liable evidence that proves the existence of a god.

It is a violation of Civil Debate to demonize your opponent.

Assuming that I am demonizing someone simply because I question their claims, is in itself an attempt to demonize.

By attempting to make me look like the antagonist of this conversation, you are, by definition, demonizing me.

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@blanks

However, if you insist "it doesn't exist", then you must be able to support your claim with logic.
My claim has always been that there is no liable evidence that proves the existence of a god.

And when a believer tells you they've experienced gods love personally and it was "life changing", doesn't that count as "evidence" (at least to that one person)?

I mean, if you had a meaningful experience, perhaps in a dream or something, would that experience "not exist" or be invalidated because nobody believed you?

No.

Your personal experiences are your most precious treasures.

It is a violation of Civil Debate to demonize your opponent.
Assuming that I am demonizing someone simply because I question their claims, is in itself an attempt to demonize.
By attempting to make me look like the antagonist of this conversation, you are, by definition, demonizing me.

Suggesting that someone is lying (assume they are not being truthful) is an AD HOMINEM ATTACK.

This is a fact. I have made no such claim about you. You can question someone's CLAIMS without questioning their sincerity.

Identifying an AD HOMINEM ATTACK is not, itself, an AD HOMINEM ATTACK.

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@Athias

HOWEvEer, your personal experience has proven to you, personally, that some ideas and perceptions are unreliable.
Give an example.

When you dream that you've driven your motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, and you wake up suddenly, at that moment you realize that "some ideas and perceptions are unreliable".

All thoughts EXIST (as GNOSIS), sure, BUT not all thoughts are TRUE.
How does subjective information make a perception "non-true" and intersubjective information make a perception "true"?

EXCELLENT POINT.

Ok, GNOSIS is yours and yours alone, no need to talk about it or anything, no need to "prove" it to anyone, no need to determine exactly how true or how false it is, I mean, you can if you want to, but nobody else gives a hoot.

LANGUAGE IS ITSELF AN INTERSUBJECTIVE EXERCISE.

Language ONLY exists to facilitate communication BETWEEN different people.

LANGUAGE ITSELF DOES NOT APPLY TO PURE GNOSIS.

From this perspective, this epistemological foundation, it should be clear that "true" must be intersubjectively verifiable (and or logically necessary).

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@3RU7AL

When you dream that you've driven your motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, and you wake up suddenly, at that moment you realize that "some ideas and perceptions are unreliable".

What was unreliable about that dream?

EXCELLENT POINT.

Ok, GNOSIS is yours and yours alone, no need to talk about it or anything, no need to "prove" it to anyone, no need to determine exactly how true or how false it is, I mean, you can if you want to, but nobody else gives a hoot.

How does the part you've emboldened inform or qualify the veracity of Gnosis?

LANGUAGE IS ITSELF AN INTERSUBJECTIVE EXERCISE.

It can be.

Language ONLY exists to facilitate communication BETWEEN different people.

I disagree. While I don't seek to contest that language is used primarily for communication between different people, that demarcates neither its existence nor its utility. Language can be used to identify and/or distinguish thoughts even to oneself. One can, for example, use language to distinguish sensations of happiness and anger.

LANGUAGE ITSELF DOES NOT APPLY TO PURE GNOSIS.

You've yet to substantiate this.

From this perspective, this epistemological foundation, it should be clear that "true" must be intersubjectively verifiable (and or logically necessary).

Even if we were to entertain your premises, they still wouldn't substantiate how "truth" must be inter-subjectively verifiable. After all, what is inter-subjectivity if not a composite of individual pure gnosis?

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@sylweb

What do you mean by Ultimate Reality?

If all you mean by "Ultimate Reality" is some vague sense of order and natural or moral law, then you haven't really dealt with God. God isn't just order and reality. When we talk about God, we generally mean a personal God with intentions, actions, discretion, and maybe even a name.

Exactly what that means. The Absolute Truth. The Supreme Being.

There is nothing vague about it, it means something very specific. If you recognize what it is that is beimg spoken of, you will recognize that God's essence is certainly unknowable. It isn't vagueness that makes God unknown, it is the fact that divinity is of a whole different nature than created things. Created things are contingent existences, they come into being, exist only in relation. The Ultimate Reality on the other hand is pre-eternal in the sense that time itself is contingent on God. God has always been, always is, and will forever be, truly eternal. Truly The Singularity, very distinct in nature from creation.

We understand very well that God's essence is unknowable, because to know The Ultimate Reality is to know all that can be known. To know God you would have to be God.

God is personal in the sense that our very life and experience is our relationship with God. When we recognize that The Truth is God, we recognize God by name. When we live the lifelong struggle and discipline of abiding in The Truth and walking The Way that entails, we are worshipping God in the Orthodox sense, that is, in Spirit and Truth. That is, worshipping God in Trinity.

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@Mopac

As ever, a whole lot of words that doesn't really tell us anything.

It just confirms for you, a set of internally held data that you consider to be meaningful.

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@zedvictor4

Everything is meaningless to a nihilist, that is the joke.

Atheism towards my God is nihilism.

I can say that because my words do have meaning, and the last thing you should do when you don't understand something is adopt an attitude of arrogance. There is grace that comes with humility.

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@3RU7AL

It is not possible to truly know The Way without abiding in it.

Information isn't what you need. What you lack is not information, but faith.

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@zedvictor4

" G " od = " U "niverse = simple, not complex

God = Universe = Uni-V-erse { finite one } = simple, not complex

Finite = integrity = systemic and structural integrity = sacred/divine

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1440 internal triangles

Shells of many, if not most, protein based viral shells, are based on the icosahedron

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@Mopac

And what does one actually base faith upon?

Have you ever sensibly considered such a point?

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