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This is too good. Tinabrewer is not done proselytizing to DaveTard:
| Quote | 28. It might be an internally generated illusion, but one feels it nonetheless. This deep inner feeling, which is synonymous with intuition, is the “still small voice” (Gandhi again) which yearns for expression and exploration. The brain says things like “to measure or quantify” because that is its nature. The spirit says things like “bliss. beauty. eternity.” because that is its nature. Like anything, the spirit obeys the laws of creation. If one wishes to makes ones muscles stronger, one must USE them to lift things. If one wishes to make one’s intuition (and its associated insights) stronger, one must USE it. Its voice is so small because it so little used, and so grossly overshadowed by the very loud voice which says “to measure and to quantify”.
You can exercise the spirit but it doesn’t change its nature. It still comes from within while reality comes from without. Blurring the boundaries between physical reality and spiritual feeling has no benefit as far as I can tell. Indeed, it just seems to lead to quashing of the spirit. For instance, just about the time you get the spiritual feeling that God loves you your dog gets hit by a car in the prime of his life and you then wonder what sort of rotten God would do that to you. It’s best to keep the real and the spiritual in different compartments and don’t mingle the two together. -ds
Comment by tinabrewer — May 31, 2006 @ 1:03 pm |
Poor DaveTard. How does he let her in on the secret that he's really one of them? She just doesn't seem to get it.
Then, there's a couple comments that may not last long:
| Quote | 29. Re #28. I completely respect Tina’s opinion - but it is also rather a clear demonstration of how religious belief is based on a very different kind of evidence than atheism. An atheist restricts themselves to the intellect, and that is why atheism is not based on faith and is not a religion.
Comment by Mark Frank — May 31, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
30. Re #24. Atheists are arrogant. Some agnostics are arrogant. How come believers are never arrogant for believing their particular God exists?
Comment by Mark Frank — May 31, 2006 @ 1:35 pm |
Then, tinabrewer comes back for more and in the process demonstrates that she has no clue what Mark Frank just said:
| Quote | 31. well said, Mark Frank. now what was that thing again with which the serpent tempted us? The “fruit of the tree of knowledge”? I can’t think of a better metaphor for enslavement to the bounds of intellect.
Dave: just about the time you think “what sort of rotten God would do that to [me]” all of a sudden you get a flash of insight from your intuition which says “maybe everything isn’t all about me, and my hopes and desires…”
Comment by tinabrewer — May 31, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
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