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Nov 5, 2016 03:27 AM
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(Nov 5, 2016 03:21 AM)Syne Wrote: Who said you should doubt your own experience? I don't even have any doubt that you noticed a book pulled out. I just see no reason to think it was anything but coincidental...maybe sleepwalking. The odds that you didn't happen to notice it until that particular morning are just astronomically higher than, what, aliens slipping in to make a vague, cryptic gesture that could have easily gone unnoticed. LOL.
You reading Streiber just psychologically primed you for noticing innocuous irregularities. And that certainly doesn't rival what personal experience it took Streiber to overcome his skepticism. Which makes me think that you already suffer from a huge lack of skepticism.
I didn't know what to believe before I read the book. I have even dismissed "the book being pulled out" experience as something mundane. But these other experiences of people with the book Communion have given me pause for thought. Was a level of archetypal experience opened up by my reading of that book? Was it more than just a mistake of my own memory? I remain open to it. Why does that bother you so much? Are you afraid of the unknown? Are you so sure that transdimensional beings don't exist?
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Nov 5, 2016 04:30 AM
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Yeah, Psychological priming.
Like an atheist about god, I am more than willing to change my opinion if there's ever compelling evidence. What evidence would it take you to believe in god? Would it take him coming down and performing obvious miracles right in front of you? You certainly don't believe based on photos of angels and the accounts of millions of others. That's why I keep asking about your atheism. I keep thinking you might be capable seeing the rather obvious comparison, but you always seem far too defensive to even attempt to see anyone's view that doesn't completely agree with your own.
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Nov 5, 2016 04:35 AM
(Nov 5, 2016 04:30 AM)Syne Wrote: Yeah, Psychological priming.
Like an atheist about god, I am more than willing to change my opinion if there's ever compelling evidence. What evidence would it take you to believe in god? Would it take him coming down and performing obvious miracles right in front of you? You certainly don't believe based on photos of angels and the accounts of millions of others. That's why I keep asking about your atheism. I keep thinking you might be capable seeing the rather obvious comparison, but you always seem far too defensive to even attempt to see anyone's view that doesn't completely agree with your own.
I believe beings exist based on my and other's sensory experience of them. It's how I navigate thru the world. If you don't like it, tough tiddy. I don' give a fuck..Moving on..
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Nov 5, 2016 05:12 AM
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So, far too defensive to answer a single question. I feel sorry for you. I would probably be seeking solace among people who accept you without scrutiny too.
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Nov 8, 2016 06:02 AM
(Nov 8, 2016 04:45 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: http://www.davidhalperin.net/alien-abduc...ge-part-1/
"He speaks of “the public shaming of sincere and serious people … who see or say otherwise,” and since Communion’s publication Strieber has been showered with public mockery of the grossest kind."
So even though you've not experienced anything even remotely like Streiber, are we to believe that people like you, who "say otherwise", are equally victimized by the rational skepticism of others?
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