an it harm none, do as thou wilt
Someone on a forum:
"Personally, as a young chrisitan, I have felt the divine."
Someone else's response:
"You felt something.
You then attribute it to the divine because that's what you believe.
You're mistaken."
Yes, sir, because you're a god and therefore in possession of tools that make it possible for you to determine such things. *snort*
I don't know what pisses me off more: religious fundamentalists who couldn't get the idea of tolerance and open-mindedness through their heads if their life depended on it, or atheists who think they're smarter than everyone else just because they're atheists (...let's stop here for a minute, because this is a problem that fascinates me and baffles me to no end: how can anyone draw this sort of conclusion and think this proves they're ...enlightened? Instead of proving, for example, that they're a dumbass and they certainly do not think as much and as deeply as they think they do) while doing precisely the same thing as the former. They're just two sides of the same coin. Their paths lie together. :D
And about whether this guy actually experienced the divine or not - well, as much as that atheist (or a believer who doesn't believe we can experience the divine during life, whatever), I'm only human, so I'll just abstain from voting here. Because what I do believe, and quite firmly, is that I don't have the means nor right to tell anyone they're right or wrong about this sort of thing. Because even though I'm not religious in the traditional sense (I'm a pantheist), it's still not a problem for me if he believes he met a whole legion of gods and goddesses. Because, in short, it's none of my business.
"Personally, as a young chrisitan, I have felt the divine."
Someone else's response:
"You felt something.
You then attribute it to the divine because that's what you believe.
You're mistaken."
Yes, sir, because you're a god and therefore in possession of tools that make it possible for you to determine such things. *snort*
I don't know what pisses me off more: religious fundamentalists who couldn't get the idea of tolerance and open-mindedness through their heads if their life depended on it, or atheists who think they're smarter than everyone else just because they're atheists (...let's stop here for a minute, because this is a problem that fascinates me and baffles me to no end: how can anyone draw this sort of conclusion and think this proves they're ...enlightened? Instead of proving, for example, that they're a dumbass and they certainly do not think as much and as deeply as they think they do) while doing precisely the same thing as the former. They're just two sides of the same coin. Their paths lie together. :D
And about whether this guy actually experienced the divine or not - well, as much as that atheist (or a believer who doesn't believe we can experience the divine during life, whatever), I'm only human, so I'll just abstain from voting here. Because what I do believe, and quite firmly, is that I don't have the means nor right to tell anyone they're right or wrong about this sort of thing. Because even though I'm not religious in the traditional sense (I'm a pantheist), it's still not a problem for me if he believes he met a whole legion of gods and goddesses. Because, in short, it's none of my business.