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No, our perception of time is relative. For a clock and the rest of physics it's real.
Could be, but we all share the same reality.
That is an opinion based on your understanding of that which is occurring around you. I applaud you for having it, but there is little I can say that will refute an ingrained assumption.
Have you ever thought that you migh have held god in a box and weren't looking in the right direction for the answers.
I am sorry that you have walked this path before, but It was not with me. I am a solution orientated person and I am not opposed to thinking outside the box. Would you not grant me the chance to speak to you about this?
I do not subscribe to the idea that anything an Atheist states is an excuse. To me the person who does this is making an excuse for themselves in order to keep from answering your questions. I don't have all the answers but we can surly speculate on that which is unknown and maybe, just maybe we can find some common ground we are comfortable with.
I am not sure what you described.
Sure, and millions describe ghosts, ancient extraterrestrial alien visitations, recent extraterrestrial alien visitations, reptilian humanoids, Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Loch Ness monster.
Subject to interpretation, it seems.
Not really, if it can also be used to describe world-creating-fairies.
"I am not convinced" needs no excuse.
And "God" means nothing to me.
Do you find anyone that disagrees with you to be rude?
Mockery is a legitimate form of criticism, where it is warranted.
Yes, except, the subjects that we often discuss here are bigger than the world...way bigger. So, as we venture out beyond the bounds of this world and universe, those same claims cannot be made, nor do they apply.
I don't know the length and breath of your previous discussion but Is there any way I can help? I am intrigued by the conversations of those who don't share my beliefs and I am not opposed to learning from them, as well.
There is a subjective and there is an objective reality. Some people are more objective then others. Even science does extensive experiments to see what extent people will go to, to go along with the status flo & to maintain their political correctness. The uni-bomber maybe an example of someone that was resistant to be a part of the objective reality and maintained his own subjectivity.
Not too much to it really. Scott declares his opinions to be fact, and I just point out where they are not.
Likewise.
It would be more appropriate to say that I am ignostic on that subject; for each context where the word is used, I would ask, what do you mean by "god"?
Both.
opinions of others opinions are not easily debated. It's merely and exchange of subjective truths that may or may not be comparable.
Then we have a common ground to work with. Thank you on this.
Well, God has different meanings to different people. I've heard the term used in materialism, but to me it means a higher power that produced everything.
Are you sure that the latter has not brought the prior into question?
We can while still bound to our "fleshy vessel".
But God is outside / above our present reality.
Okay, but in the present reality we're kind of 'stuck' here.
That is all true for some, but there are also (all throughout the history of the world) people such as myself who have been beyond this present [so called] reality, and it is all way more than conviction, belief, and faith. Our convictions, beliefs, and faith are founded in the greater reality of God beyond the world, and this is the message: Not that faith and belief are in what cannot be seen or realized, but that we can in fact "know" things that have come to us from beyond the world, by Him who created it.
Well, I'm not the one making the truth statements, and his "truths" can be compared to observations of reality.
Or it is portrayed as something that, in order for stories of it to be true, would require that virtually all of mainstream science need be wrong.
No, I would say that what brings it into question is his failure to show that his "truths" are an accurate description of reality.
I was not targeting you personally in any of this. I also was not targeting he who you were talking to, I was making a statement of the facts that I have enticed and have at times, feel into. It, to me is simple logic. opinions are personal truths that have not been verified.
No, not really. I applause the leaps and bounds that science has brought to mankind. The search for knowledge is a noble goal and I don't think religion has any place there, other than the morals of those scientist who are Christin. Science is of the mind and it's purpose and place is there. Religion comes from the heart and it's purpose and place is there. Art is of the soul and it's purpose and place is there. All of these can be mixed, to a certain degree, but they should not overshadow each other. If that is done, It diminishes the rest and causes conflict that should not be.
I was not talking about the people in particular. I was talking specifically about my question to you. I try to refrain from discussing those not present to those who are. It usually ends up in a he said, she said drama that is unnecessary.
You have then reduced "truth" to "opinion", which is why that I say that I seek not truth, but accurate descriptions of reality.
Yes, really. Have you not seen some of the threads in this forum? We even have some flat-earther in here.
Scott can chime in any time he likes.
I do not know what you mean by "sin". From what I gather, the only "sin" of note is disbelief. Everything else goes, as long as you believe.
I see no reason to accept that you see it more accurately through the filters of your religion.
