If you don't know what the experience is, how can you decide it's vaguely labelled? (Which I believe repeats what Stephen said earlier.)
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Why I think atheism/theism doesn't matter.
- Thread starter sandandfoam
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dust1n
Zindīq
LOL, well if that is what it comes down to, I don't really get the intentions of the OP.
Stephen is on a journey, the one he talks about. On this journey he has found parallels between God and big mind. This is a good thing... for Stephen. He presents conclusions that he sees the parallel suggest, and holds them up for comment. I think he got some pretty good responses.
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Because the actual experience of something and the practical definition of something for the purpose of discussion are two entirely different things.
So, how should he approach it? He's being asked to practically define an actual experience.
Because the actual experience of something and the practical definition of something for the purpose of discussion are two entirely different things.
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
No he isn't, he's just being told that defining God as "a label for an experience" is needlessly vague and just confuses the issue of atheism and theism. I've explained this a dozen times already.
I understand; what is "vague" about it is that he hasn't practically defined the actual experience, which can't happen. We're good.
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
No, clearly you still don't understand.
The problem isn't that he hasn't "defined the experience", the problem is that he is relabelling God - a word which when used in the context of the theism/atheism debate has a precise meaning and function - to be something so vague and undefinable that literally anything could fit the definition. It's like if we're going to debate about vegetarianism/meat eating and I decided to define "meat" as "anything edible". It's just confusing the issue and not adding anything to the discussion.