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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 07 January 2012 09:05:19PM 2 points [-]

Upvoted for being a completely reasonable comment given that you haven't read through the entirety of a thread that's gotten totally monstrous.

However, I predict in advance that 1) this evidence is based on words that a man wrote in an ancient book,

Only partly right.

2) I will find this evidence dubious.

Of course you will. If I told you that God himself appeared to me personally and told me everything in the Bible was true, you'd find that dubious, too. Perhaps even more dubious.

Where, then, is the chain of entangled events leading from the state of the universe to the state of your mind?

Already partly in other posts on this thread (actually largely in other posts on this thread), buried somewhere, among something. You'll forgive me for not wanting to retype multiple pages, I hope.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 08 January 2012 12:14:06AM 3 points [-]

If I told you that God himself appeared to me personally and told me everything in the Bible was true, you'd find that dubious, too.

Certainly. I'm now curious though: if I told you that God appeared to me personally and told me everything in the Bible was true (either for some specific meaning of "the Bible," which is of course an ambiguous phrase, or leaving it not further specified), roughly how much confidence would you have that I was telling you the truth?

Comment author: AspiringKnitter 08 January 2012 12:32:46AM 1 point [-]

It would depend on how you said it-- as a joke, or as an explanation for why you suddenly believed in God and had decided to convert to Christianity, or as a puzzling experience that you were trying to figure out, or something else-- and whether it was April 1 or not, and what you meant by "the Bible" (whether you specified it or not), and how you described God and the vision and your plans for the future.

But I'd take it with a grain of salt. I'd probably investigate further and continue correspondence with you for some time, both to help you as well as I could and to ascertain with more certainty the source of your belief that God came to you (whether he really did or it was a drug-induced hallucination or something). It would not be something I'd bet on either way, at least not just from hearing it said.

Comment author: occlude 09 January 2012 05:05:52AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for being a completely reasonable comment given that you haven't read through the entirety of a thread that's gotten totally monstrous.

Ah, apologies if I've completely missed the point (which is entirely possible).

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