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• Greg. Tingey commented on Wicked (2)
  heteromeles @ 133 There has been much research (which I have not been following recently) where people can be made to "percieve" god or devils through e/m manipulation under control in laboratories, I think ... ah, found it: Research initiated by Dr. M. Persinger, and since undertaken by others as well, has clearly shown that religious experiences and visions can be artificially induced and stimulated under controlled laboratory conditions. Thus, religious experiences {of this nature} are reproducible natural phenomena, which can be produced or replicated on demand. There is zero mystical, religious, or any other form of otherworldly content. "Religious"...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Wicked (2)
  unholyguy @ 135 Religious types are not thinking about scientific proof they are claiming access to a different kind of truthiness. So, you then ask them: "What SORT of "truthiness" - please DEFINE IT!" And, of course they can't amd all the usal evasive lies start up again. It's so depressing....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Wicked (2)
  "Hamlet's Ghost" @ 141 You JUST MOVED THE GOALPOSTS Whoever said "god" was an abstract concept? I didn't. Beleivers claim that "god" is real, not abstract. This is the usual weaselling, and trying-to-change-the-discussion. Do that again, and I'll use the L-word. I notice "unholyguy" @ 143 has noticed as well. That really wasn't clever of you, was it? Before anyone ELSE goes on about "Subjective Reality" and religious experiences. PLEASE re-read my piece @ 134, especialy the bit about deliberate laboratory-induced artificial religious experiences/visions. ZERO mystical content. Oops, again....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Wicked (2)
  Privatelron@ 148 The Tao/Dao is notoriously difficult to define. Although parts of it were incorporated into "Confucianism", it is probably incorrect to call Tao a religion. It's a philosophical system, and its' nearest European counterpart is probably the writings of Spinoza. There is most emphatically NOT a "god" in any conventional sense in the Dao. There is a "way" made up of the aforementioned guiding philosophical principles. And OF COURSE people experience the same phenomena differently, but that is not to say that said phenomena are, or are not real. If someone is a trained observer, they will notice more...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Wicked (2)
  heteromeles @ 163 Not forgetting of course ... that the whole "religion" idea is a load of foetid Dingoes kidneys ..... Big Invisible Sky Fairies!...