The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104170   Message #2130445
Posted By: Bill D
21-Aug-07 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mutual respect
Subject: RE: BS: Mutual respect
gee, Amos, you bit anyway
..."While the majority of humans on earth have experience with the spiritual at least in some degree,..."

The whole point is that, embedded in that sentence is a serious equivocation on the word "experience". An 'experience' with " NDEs, OOBEs, moments of telepathic or remote viewing, snatches of reincarnation memories, deja vues, and so on. " is in a quite different category than one with a side of beef, a VW Golf, a naked lap dancer or being whacked with a copy of Husserl's Phenomenology.! (grin)

Being 'absolutely sure' that you had an OOB event is a different claim than being sure you had a naked lap-dance or had a side of beef dropped on you.....and...just because far fewer folks claim to have had a direct experience with God, doesn't make the claim more or less credible than NDEs or OOBs...maybe God is just capricious and has a wicked sense of humor!
I, personally, have never had any of those, so I can admit just for the sake of the discussion, the 'possibility' of both types, while seriously doubting both.