They're your unsupported claims. Read them out loud if you want to know what they are. You called them Argument 1 and Argument 2. There is no argument there.
Perhaps you mean something different by unsupported that I do. I'm not saying that the your claims can't be supported, just that you didn't do that.
No, I don't. I used to be a Christian. I would say now that what I interpreted as the Holy Spirit then I see as something else now, a psychological experience once misunderstood.
You are free to speculate about what goes on in my mind.
But once again, I don' see an argument from you, just the claim that nobody can be more accurate about your inner experiences than you. That's simply incorrect. Of course you can be wrong and others know that.
It's not difficult to recognize when somebody is misrepresenting their inner life. What harder is deciding if they know that they are doing this. I'm thinking of the guy who gave me statistics on masks in COVID as his reason for not wearing one. Of course that's not accurate. This kind of person doesn't make decisions based in science. We know this because he's attempting to use a crumb of it to justify ignoring all the rest. He wants what he wants, and there's really not much more to it than that, but he won't say that. He may not even know that it's not the mask data influencing him. He just knows that if he doesn't feign some interest in scientific evidence, that he will be disesteemed for his decision.
Now we're seeing it with the vaccine, where people who have zero interest in science, zero understanding of how vaccines are approved or what it means when they are, tell us or imply to us that they're waiting for full FDA approval. Whether they know it or not, I know that that is not the case. Once again, these people don't care what the FDA, the CDC, or Dr. Fauci have to say about anything. If they did, they'd be vaccinated. Once again, they merely want what they want, but feel that they need to put a bit of science in there to make it seem like they have good reason for their opinions.
Likewise with the anti-choice contingent. They can't tell you that they want abortion recriminalized because they believe that their god wants them to object, so you hear every other reason instead: it's a human being (not a factor for me), it causes long-term mental health issues in the almost-mother (who they don't care about at all).
You may not like having your motives second-guessed, and you might believe that because your thoughts are in your head that they are hidden from others and should just be believed, but that's just not the case.
My wife belongs to a garden club and sits on the board. The club has not been meeting for over a year now, but the president, a Trump Republican, has been arguing against requiring proof of vaccine to attend. She tells others she doesn't approve. They were going to meet without her, so suddenly, she reports that she got a vaccine, albeit reluctantly. When asked to provide proof, she demurred, claiming that her health care was her business and nobody else's. What do you think? Should be be believed? Do people have a right to second guess what's going on in her head even though they only have direct access to her words and deeds? I'd say they have a responsibility to do that, and that it's not too difficult to do.
the teaching is proof enough for me since it has change my life fully
