Article ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams is taking Pascal’s bet

[Magical Realist]

And you, like Jung, can conflate words like "believe" and "know,

I am the one saying they are different. That's not "conflating" anything. Check out a dictionary while you're at the library.

[Syne]

You are conflating, Dunning-Kruger just won't allow you to realize it. 9_9

[Magical Realist]

You're not even making sense anymore. Quit using words you don't know the meaning of. And quit wasting my time.

con·flate
/kənˈflāt/
verb
"combine (two or more texts, ideas, etc.) into one."

[Syne]

I know you think that. Since you failed to understand my earlier explanation, I don't see a point in trying to educate you.
If you had a legit argument, you'd start by explaining how the two differ... but you seem much more eager to deflect.

9_9

[Magical Realist]

Why don't you tell us your concept of God as a panentheist?You always defend the belief in God, but never discuss your own. I'm open to all sorts of possibilities. Whitehead. Tillich. Just not the Judeo Christian version.

[Syne]

Nah, you're still deflecting. I already gave you definitions. You haven't.

[Magical Realist]

What am I deflecting?

"When people ask me after one of my lectures, 'Do you believe in God?' I frequently reply by asking what the questioner means by 'God'. The term means a lot of different things in a lot of different religions. For some, it's an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow.

To others, Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein - God is essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I can't imagine anyone denying the existence of the laws of nature, but I don't know of any compelling evidence for the old man in the sky."
Carl Sagan (God & Carl Sagan : Is The Universe Big Enough for Both of Them?)

[Syne]

Deflection... what you're still doing... by not answering the simple question of what you mean by "believe" and "know."
I have no problem if you can't answer that easy question, but I'm not going to entertain your endless deflection.

[Magical Realist]

Deflection... what you're still doing... by not answering the simple question of what you mean by "believe" and "know."

I ignore questions all the time, particularly when they are stupid and do not serve the dialogue. Nobody decides what I post. Get used to it.

[Syne]

Don''t answer. It's fine with me. That's exactly why I said I don't see a point. I'm not interested in playing your bad faith game of deflecting simple questions. If that's all you can do, meh. Don't care. Tells me all I need to know. No further discussion necessary.