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I accept that your experience is what you say it is.
I wasn't asking you to answer them. I posted them to show that your conclusion might not be accurate.
Everything is still felt but you don't hold on to it.
originally posted by: Andy1144
It doesn't matter what I say my experience is, my point is we have to discuss what these experiences are and what their implications are. We can only do so if we discuss it.
This is just a play of words, you asked me questions showing me where I could be wrong, and I answered your questions that their might be more variables involved in much detail.
So wheres the contradiction?
I can discuss it without grilling you about it.
Well, my point was that there might be more variables involved. It was posted to refute your assertion that everyone experiences the same thing but it seems that you are not decided on that either.
originally posted by: Andy1144
You aren't discussing it in detail, you have been very vague.
I don't know what you mean.
And I still don't know what the contradiction is.
But I am skeptical of discussing these things with you if you can't understand the simple fact that there is no choice free from influence. If you can't understand this simple fact, then I can't really discuss anything with you.
Details mean nothing if you will only accept that my experience is the real deal if I agree with you.
Exactly, you are biased. This is like a religion to you and if I'm not one of your flock then you don't even want to discuss. Unless it's to try and convert me.
I said that pages ago.
originally posted by: Andy1144
I will need to give evidence as to why you should or shouldn't agree with me.
Direct experience is not a belief.
I am like an atheist, and I would be skeptical to have a discussion if the christian didn't understand simple logic. Based on what you're saying. the atheist is biased because he can't make the christian agree with what he's saying.
Repeating a string of words over and oiver don't make them true and your actions speak louder than those words anyway.
Yeah, you are like a religious atheist having a discussion with an honest atheist. You are still skeptical but in this case you are the one filled with religious zeal.
originally posted by: Andy1144
It's ironic that you accuse you of the same things you've done yourself.
I present simple facts
No, I'm not doing the same. I am not dismissing your experience as invalid because you don't give details.
You present philosophy as hard science and that right there is dishonest enough. Everything after that is worthless, except to you.
originally posted by: Andy1144
Not the point. You said I experienced a certain thing. I simply wanted to make sure you weren't talking about something else and thus asked you to describe your experience.
I'm not falling for this jargon again.
Making sure means that you will dismiss unless it checks out.
And besides, isn't what you say apply to you as well? You'll only accept what you think is right.
From my POV you want details to be able to do what you have done throughout the thread, nitpick. You even did it to Unifinity.
You can't even see how needing the experience to have "najor implications" contradicts the idea that you are seeing through an illusion and realizing that it means nothing so, how is it going to have deep meaning if you are realizing that things are not real.
Basic fail in logic, even itisnowagain pointed that out to you but, like everything else you just dismissed it.