(urth) Religious writers and audiences

[brunians at brunians.org]

We are not talking about rationality.

We are talking about sanity.

You are behaving as if the two terms were identical.

They are not.

What does the term 'sane' mean?

Will no one attempt to answer this simple question?

.


> Where would I be if I shared the perspective but acted as though I
> understood that there were those who didn't and that those people remain
> rational?
>
> I guess I'd have ironclad faith and yet be an accepted and polite member
> of
> civil society.  Doesn't sound too bad.
>
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:24 AM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
>> And if this perspective was true, where then would you be?
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> > I think that's right.  brunians has repeatedly referred to his direct
>> > experiences of what others would call the supernatural.  It may be
>> that,
>> > from his perspective (or feigned perspective), it makes as much sense
>> to
>> > deny the existence of God as to deny the existence of the sun.
>> >
>> > Even if I shared this perspective, I'd like to think I'd understand
>> that
>> > most other people didn't and behave accordingly.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Stockhoff
>> > <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Pedro
>> >>
>> >> Brunians is not being evasive. Rather, as far as I can tell, he
>> >> considers
>> >> the existence of the natural world (as he defines it) and the entire
>> >> universe to be an argument for his beliefs; in short, his
>> observations
>> >> are
>> >> beliefs and his beliefs are observations. There is no light between
>> them
>> >> and
>> >> therefore no need to construct an argument for them.
>> >>
>> >> ------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Message: 3
>> >> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:41:17 +0300
>> >> From: Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> To: <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> >> Subject: Re: (urth) Religious writers and audiences
>> >> Message-ID: <COL105-W362F28CE7274F1620D236285D40 at phx.gbl>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> What!??!?!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I'm not reading a book and demanding that the author makes it
>> "easier"
>> >> for
>> >> me; I'm asking for a straight answer from someone that accuses me
>> (and
>> >> others) of beying insane in an internet forum. But thanks for
>> nothing.
>> >> I'm
>> >> not going to waste more time with this.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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