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Originally posted by LesMisanthrope
Originally posted by 0mage
at this point i am going to have to claim myself as the world's foremost expert on metaphysics. why would i make such a claim? because ive been there. i figured it out. and i perform it via will. also i have seen my self in the etheric mirror.
James Randi has a challenge for people like yourself, the gifted ones. James Randi foundation challenge. The prize money hasn't been awarded since it was conceived 40 years ago. It's at $1million. If you are indeed the world's foremost expert, you should prove your claims. If you don't, or refuse to prove it, in the mind of someone with common sense, you are either lying or crazy.
Will you do it?
Originally posted by 0mage
tools and technologies would provide little to no evidence of anything. the best bet of learning anything is thru my instruction and testimony of the events as they happened to me.
Originally posted by 0mage
Originally posted by LesMisanthrope
Originally posted by 0mage
at this point i am going to have to claim myself as the world's foremost expert on metaphysics. why would i make such a claim? because ive been there. i figured it out. and i perform it via will. also i have seen my self in the etheric mirror.
James Randi has a challenge for people like yourself, the gifted ones. James Randi foundation challenge. The prize money hasn't been awarded since it was conceived 40 years ago. It's at $1million. If you are indeed the world's foremost expert, you should prove your claims. If you don't, or refuse to prove it, in the mind of someone with common sense, you are either lying or crazy.
Will you do it?
i have contacted him via email myself as i was considering it. but i got no reply. 1 million is not enough anyway LOL
the question is also.. what is the purpose. if i do prove it.. what happens next? can i just take the money and go back to normal life?
Originally posted by LesMisanthrope
Originally posted by 0mage
Originally posted by LesMisanthrope
Originally posted by 0mage
at this point i am going to have to claim myself as the world's foremost expert on metaphysics. why would i make such a claim? because ive been there. i figured it out. and i perform it via will. also i have seen my self in the etheric mirror.
James Randi has a challenge for people like yourself, the gifted ones. James Randi foundation challenge. The prize money hasn't been awarded since it was conceived 40 years ago. It's at $1million. If you are indeed the world's foremost expert, you should prove your claims. If you don't, or refuse to prove it, in the mind of someone with common sense, you are either lying or crazy.
Will you do it?
i have contacted him via email myself as i was considering it. but i got no reply. 1 million is not enough anyway LOL
the question is also.. what is the purpose. if i do prove it.. what happens next? can i just take the money and go back to normal life?
If you proved that you are the foremost expert in metaphysics, which was last held by Aristotle in the eyes of the Catholic church, you wouldn't be disregarded as a liar and a charlatan.
Although I refuse the label, I could be described as a skeptic. It is my curse to always question what is put before me. Although I understand the weakness of inductive reasoning, I still employ it before being proven otherwise. A crow will always appear black until I see one of a different color. But with humans, it's worse, as I now have to deal with the possibility of deception for motives such as greed, vanity etc. I cannot believe the words of some fellow on the internet who claims he has special powers, only because no one has conclusively been shown to possess such powers. Until you prove it, I will have to rely on my induction, which states that you are most likely either a liar, a charlatan or a deceiver. This conclusion isn't anything personal of course.
I can't believe I'm getting sucked into this vortex - but this "logic" is confounding!
You do not believe a position of atheism is possible because no one has seen everything? Well then you can't be a Christian or Muslim or whatever because you haven't either? If people lived by those 2 rules then everybody would be on the fence about everything. Is it possible there is a god? I guess so but, I BELIEVE THERE ISN"T based on my personal experiences. Just as some do believe based on their personal experiences.
Science has performed experiment after experiment concerning abiogenesis. Not one of them has resulted in LIFE from NOTHING! And they never will. Because it is impossible.
only say that "they do not know", instead of saying that there is no god.
Originally posted by totallackey
reply to post by daskakik
I never stated atheists...
only say that "they do not know", instead of saying that there is no god.
I stated atheists cannot say there is no god with certainty. And since the term atheist is one of certainty (i.e., disbelief)...well...