Interbane wrote:Since I defeated all of you atheists with my questions you all never did answer, just posted links to atheist propaganda sites instead of answering my questions, those sites having atheist "explanations" that just do not apply, any of them, because none of them address or explain how religious visions keep to specific religious themes if they are merely products of human brain chemicals dashing around willy-nilly in a random universe.
Your questions were answered. They all apply to the coincidences you worship and mystical patterns you think have real substance. These concepts, such as apophenia, are well-known and well documented, and not limited to atheist propaganda sites. They also explain how religious visions keep to specific religious themes.
I've shown how any support you have for your beliefs is fallacious. You haven't written anything new since then Stephen, except to claim that none of the posts apply to your beliefs, and that you've "demolished" any arguments put forth. That's text-book delusion. If you want to redeem yourself, I made a post on how I'd be willing to engage. I believe it's earlier in this thread.
No, it's not, Interbane. I told you why apophenia for example doesn't fit my religious conversion experience at all. "Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena." Tell us how this applies to receiving spiritual revelations when I've had 35 years of atheist non-religious experience prior to the spiritual reception that entered my mind without any causation except an accompanying sweating just like Muhammad reported when he too received spiritual visions. Where is my looking at the potato and seeing Jesus Christ or even reading a Bible before these experiences happened to me? What your untested by you and these other atheists not talking to religious visionaries fatal flaw in your argument is that the spiritual revelations come first, not secondary to synchronicity experiences later that confirmed the spiritual information was real. Apophenia has it the other way around and that's not true to the spiritual experience.
My religious conversion experience consisted in major part in going through three full days of non-stop synchronicity experiences, one right after the other, and all of them tying together the mentally received revelations through the shock of synchronicity events that statistically were impossible coincidences. One might explain one or two synchronicity experiences but not scores of them in a row for three days. That's what it took to convert this former atheist and that's what you have to explain before you can ever claim you've answered my questions that show you have no real answers. If you do, if you can tell us how three days of non-stop synchronicity experiences come about through "spontaneous perception and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena", please do so, right here. Tell us how "unrelated phenomena enters the human brain when your lying in bed with the lights out and just waiting to go to bed and haven't had a religious thought in your whole life? Tell us how an atheist, former anthropology major, suddenly has these spiritual messages coming into his brain from no outside source, no prior stimulation except feeling a strange mentality that is can be explained as shock to my worldview because it was turned upside down in three days. You've got to be able to explain how people who are not religious at all, like I was, suddenly receive spiritual visions that are far more than seeing the face of Jesus in a cloud formation.
These atheist "explanations" of yours were never vetted by asking people like me who have real religious visions how they get them. You don't get a massive accumulation of spiritual information following a specific religious framework by seeing Jesus' Holy Grail in the Cup Bearer symbolism unless that symbolism is part and parcel of a whole spiritual Instruction, a Way, a Torah, given to us to guide us as relying only on left-brain intellectualism suffers as you demonstrate from inability to perceive a very important dimension of reality-the spiritual one. This explains why for example, you can't understand religious perception and why Acharya and all mythicists missed the Christ Aquarius identification of Jesus Christ because they weren't able to "hear" the Harmony of the Spheres as Einstein called it, as it is called the Tao of heaven and scores of other names denoting a Great Spirit in operation behind the material universe. Synchronicity "Signs" propel most all spiritually led people as this quote of Martin Buber demonstrates:
"One must, however, take care not to understand this conversation with God- the conversation of which I have to speak in this book and in almost all of the works which followed- as something happening solely alongside or above the everyday. God's speech to men penetrates what happens in the life of each one of us, and all that happens in the world around us, biographical and historical, and makes it for you and me into instruction, message, demand. Happening upon happening, situation upon situation, are enabled and empowered by the personal speech of God to demand of the human person that he take his stand and make his decision. Often enough we think there is nothing to hear, but long before we have ourselves put wax in our ears.
The existence of mutuality between God and man cannot be proved, just as God' existence cannot be proved. Yet he who dares to speak of it, bears witness, and calls to witness him to whom he speaks- whether that witness is now or in the future."
Martin Buber
Jerusalem
October, 1957
I could have been a rabbi but God put me on a different path. I wonder how you would talk your atheist belittlement of theists if I had identified myself as a rabbi. I suspect you would treat me better. I am a religious visionary and with God's guidance through synchronicity language I have produced some work I am very proud to give to humanity. This work can be found in the Aquariana Gifts section of The Aquariana Key book now open for discussion in the non-fiction book section. I didn't produce these works when I was still an atheist and wasn't guided by God. I produced it with God's guidance. "InSpiration" it's called and for good reason.