I find it very sad that the staunch atheist is so limited in their intellectual scope. We humans have known for millennia that there are realities and aspects of this reality which are outside our ability to know, prove, or even perceive in an absolute sense. But that does not mean they are not real or actual.
So many things once thought by the “rationalists” to be imagined, hallucinated, made up, etc., have now been shown to be true. It’s sad really! It is as if they lack the capacity to consider in the abstract. So sad they cannot access that part of their brain. They are so like the lower forms (pure animals) they claim to be. Who knows maybe they are.
Human physiology only perceives visually and audibly within a tiny speck of a vast spectrum. We KNOW some creatures have access to parts of this spectrum that humans do not share. On the visual side we can be sure they are seeing things that are not there to us and some are hearing things we cannot hear. But we are intelligent and creative like our maker and have come to develop extensions of our senses that assist us in understanding or at least recognizing these other realms or dimensions. This however does not mean or equal other unperceived or unproven realms or dimensions do not exist but still because of their handicap in the area of the abstract they must assume their non-reality. Now at least SOME quantum physicists are beginning to see that there are aspects of this reality (or others) existing right here right now that the “rationalist” cannot see or hear…they are real and extant whether we as individuals can perceive, prove, or consider.
The staunch atheist (as opposed to the honest agnostic) is like a small mind inside an infinitely huge box with a sadly minute set of tools who based on their tiny corner of the box they have explored with these limited tools makes huge judgment and assumption based leaps in understanding what is INSIDE the vastly huge unknowable (in an absolute sense) box…therefore have ZERO ziloch faculties to even consider that there might be an outside of the box. For them not only is the INSIDE of the box all there is, but it is all conditioned by their limited stunted way of seeing, measuring, and determining things about the box relative to their little mind and place in the box….
This is even true on the physical plane (realm or dimension)…we KNOW the whirring of the planets each makes their own unique sound (if for no other reason than because they vibrate)….we higher beings can imagine what these sounds may be not knowing absolutely…one day we may intelligently design instruments that sense and measure the reality of these vibrational waves but still never know the beauty of being able to hear them. That does not mean they are not real.
Empiricism from the view of the “rationalist” is slanted and is retranslated to only fit their limited corner of the box view when in reality the term means that which can demonstrated by observation, experience, or experiment….
They of course will only allow “observation” when it suits their purpose and deny the necessity of it also when convenient….”experiment” is only necessary when they are not projecting their opinion into the ancient past and even then will vehemently deny the relativity or applicability of any experiments not supportive of their camp or view and…only accept “experience” that they themselves have experienced and automatically reject any and all experience of others that differs from or calls into question their assumption based pre-conceived conclusions.
Let’s look at “Empirical” and see what it actually means…
Empirical -
based on, concerned with, or verifiable by, observation or experience
Empirical evidence (also
empirical data,
sense experience,
empirical knowledge, or the
a posteriori) is a
source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation.
em·pir·i·cal [em-
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adjective
1.
derived from, or guided by, experience or experiment.
2.depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
3.provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.
So we can see here that in fact empirical evidence does not rely on having to be demonstrated by the scientific method whatsoever, and that indeed even God can be said to be proven to exist through empirical means. We hear
what this God has said would take place and
then witness/observe that it has…we experience God personally and our experience with God has shown to us He is real and alive…God can be demonstrated in the transformation of others not yet saved…since we are guided by God and our experience with God is derived from God then God is revealed empirically. Likewise since the clear majority of people from all cultures in all times across all gender, age, social position, and educational lines believe there IS a God or gods and so many have experienced this reality either directly or indirectly for the modern (still minority) limited box viewers to accuse all the others of being delusional shows it is they who are delusional.
“If God would only make Himself known then I would believe….”
No they wouldn’t because He has (only not to them)
“If God would only speak audibly then I would believe….”
No they wouldn’t because He has spoken to many (just not to them)
“If God would just appear then I would believe…”
Sorry that is also a delusion because He has, only not as far as they would define it…
So for them, just because THEY do not have the ability or have had any such experience, in order to protect their ego’s integrity they MUST designate all who do have this ability or experience to the realm of liar, or else delusional….so sad…so very sad….having been stripped of their natural human ability to think outside the box, they can only think in terms of the box corner they reside in, and settle for the degree to which they have been derailed from full implementation of the joy of appreciation of possibility and imagination to go there….and then finally within each group of box thinkers they must continuously shrink the box of inquiry and questioning to already established box thoughts and only those from those within their box group and then only from among those who support their box opinion…
Now though this observation and experience I and myriads of others have had dealing with these individuals contending with their limits in thinking ability, and though what I have said above is totally “rational” they will not be able to make sense of it (they are incapable of following the thought process expressed because it makes them question themselves which they are not able to do and still maintain their ego integrity)…we must forgive them as they have been taught what to think not how to think…
Accept their views and pass, or question them and fail! Agree and be deemed intelligent and rational or disagree and be deemed as a liar or delusional….however, this is itself delusional.
