GOD & PROOF

I don't claim to know if God is real, cuz I don't know. But, kal, what if I say I am totally convinced that there is truly a paranormal side to reality, and that from what I have seen it includes magic, miracles, life after death, and spirit guides? Oh yeah, I have based this on dozens of personal experiences, but, I can't prove a bit of it. I claim it exists, and i won't provide evidence, unless my testimony is good enough for you, which I find highly unlikely.
So why 'must' I provide documentation? I have no expectation, need, desire, or hope that anyone will believe me.

 

1. The proposition "Everything is a Goat" is either true or not true.
2. If it is false, then it's opposite must be true.
3. The opposite of "everything" is "nothing", which give us the proposition "Nothing is a Goat".*
4. Now, this statement is clearly false, for goats certainly exist - we have all seen them. This means that it's opposite must be true.
5. Therefore, "Everything is a Goat" must be a true statement.

What is the name of this fallacy?
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/composition.html

Fallacy of composition:

1. Some parts of everything have the characteristic not a goat.
2. Therefore all parts of everything must have the characteristic not a goat.

 

Allright well how about the delicate balance that everything is in. The structure of atoms, gravity, fundemental constants. The universe dosn't have any reason to work in the exact way it does. Why does matter form, why not nothing? It is all worked out perfectly to be, instead of not functioning. I tell ya, when you hear some physisits talk about it its just impossible to not have some doubt that someone must be in charge.

What else....we can't make life in labs, can't figure out how it first started. How can you exsist if your just made up of little atoms? Where does creative thought come from? Tough stuff with no real answers, except somebody must have made it.

 

You have two chocies

A) Random Chance
B) Intellgent Design

You can make either or sound just as absurd. You belive either choice because thats what YOU want to belive. Later down the road when death takes us we'll find out...by either blackness...nothing...non existince...or an afterlife. Untill then we belive what we belive becasue we want too.

 

Dear Libertine,

Bravo, bra-freakin'-vo.

Yeah . . . well, there it is. It seems to me the real problem is the belief that divinity can only be experienced as something extraordinary. You know . . . a burning bush, a voice in the clouds, a prophetic experience (deja vu?), a resurrection or two . . .

Now, I would never argue against the idea that God "speaketh mightily unto the righteous and the wicked." But a belief that God must be extraordinary, exclusively, is a real barrier to experiencing the divine in the ordinary . . . you know, human beings, chocolate cake, newspaper offices, love (and hate), happiness, the teachings of the wise, imagination, states of mind, and so on.

Whether or not one allows oneself to see it, there is a mysterious, undefined presence that certainly does exist, somehow, in the everyday. It is possible to get so accustomed to experiencing it, however, that the extraordinary seems ordinary. Why that is sometimes accepted as a reason to deny it exists, I have no idea. But if you take a few minutes to really appreciate your favorites, you may very well get a fresh, new hint of what the wise refer to as the divine.

It is possible.

Peace and Love

 

Well, maybe I'll develop a third eye and see it.