Dontaskme wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:25 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:19 am
It may be a mysterious miracle to you but it is a common thing to many and loads of research have been done in that sort of thing.
Okay if you say so, so in your own words, without resorting to knowledge and endless links to dogmatic scientific reasoning and research which in my opinion is based purely on concepts, belief, and faith anyway.
In your own words, keep it simple, and answer honestly....why do you say [God is an Impossibilty?]
If you are going to bombard me with loads of secondary knowledge, and facts from endless vaults of other peoples knowledge, then I'm not playing that game, I do not want to play the game of having to read through reams and reams of endless words..when we can just as easily get straight to the point.
I want to hear from your ''own direct experience'', in your own words...is that too much to ask?
Try to keep it simple that a child can understand you, please refrain from bamboozling the reader.
Btw, I have had some 'spiritual experiences' i.e. altered states of consciousness [not as extreme as Jill Bolte's] and I thought I was special [belonging to the elite group]. Whilst is "something" positive to experience, I was told by many 'teachers' and confirm by extensive reading not to give any special attention to such experiences.
Further reading of such of my own experience and that of others, I learned they are basically neural activities triggered upon by various circumstances. I have made it a point to read whatever I can access to understand the topic deeply and I have done that and is continuing to do so.
If you don't bother to read up, you have to count yourself as ignorant on this subject.
So then, lets start with 2 questions, please refrain from going off on a tangent, please stick to the two main questions until they have been properly assimilated by each of us...please keep it simple, if you don't then I will get lost in a whirlpool of fog and will be unable to see the clarity of what you are trying to communicate.
Question 1 - ''how'' do you know for certain that [God is an Impossibilty?]
Philosophically there is no absolute certainty.
However I have proved based on reason [supported with empirical] in the following argument why God is an impossibility to be real. It is similar to understanding a square-circle at the same time and sense is an impossibility to be real, 1 + 1 = 27 is not true in the mathematical sense.
God is an Impossibility
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=24704
Question 2 - ''who'' is it that you think or believe knows [God is an Impossibility?]
I am aware the above question will lead to the Metaphysical Perspective, i.e. Philosophy of Metaphysics which will result in illusory entities.
This is why I have proven why 'God is an Impossibility to be Real.'
In this sense, the metaphysics understanding of the 'who' or the self will lead and reinforces personal selfishness.
As I have stated before there are many layers and perspective to the 'who' i.e. the self or person who "knows."
To understand that "who" we need to discuss 'it' within the following main perspectives [nb: there are many others] which I have listed before;
- 1. Common sense
2. Scientific
3. Epistemological -philosophy
4. Metaphysical -philosophy
DAM:
'Who' believes 'God is an Impossibility'?
Any 'who' within perspective 1-3 can believe 'God is an Impossibility'.
But there is no real 'who' in the metaphysical perspective [yours] to believe that point.
In the common sense perspective 'who' is the other human person who has the normal qualities of a human being. Who [grammar] in the linguistic perspective can refer to a living or dead person.
From the scientific perspective there is the Science of Who, i.e. the physical person [anatomy] and mental person [psychology].
From the philosophy perspective we have the epistemology of the Self, person, the-who, the ego and the Metaphysics of the Self [the self beyond the perspective o f 1-3 above].
Epistemology of the Self is based on "knowledge" [Justified True Beliefs -JTB].
The Metaphysics of the Self is beyond "knowledge" {JTB} and I have argued it is an illusion in terms of the soul that survives physical death and other extreme ideas of the self.
To understand the above points thoroughly one has no choice but to dig as deep as possible to understand [not necessary agree with] the issues.
It is very typical when one need to the knowledge and understanding to cover as many fields of the topic as possible. You will note this is the common approach in most wiki articles, e.g. this on the who as the self.
The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness.
This reference is necessarily subjective, thus self is a reference by a subject to the same subject.
The sense of having a self – or self-hood – should, however, not be confused with subjectivity itself.[1]
Ostensibly, there is a directedness outward from the subject that refers inward, back to its "self" (or itself). Examples of psychiatric conditions where such 'sameness' is broken include depersonalization, which sometimes occur in schizophrenia: the self appears different to the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self
There is no escape from reading as much and as deep as possible if you need to equip yourself with knowledge and understanding to back whatever experiences you encounter. I myself have read many 1000s of books and articles.
