Trying to clarify his personal belief structure
Ok, if you absolutely, postively have to put a lable on it it would be something along the lines of *deep breath*:
Provisional agnostic non-theist: recognizes unexplained events but is unwilling to accept unqualified explainations. Is willing to wait for a more qualified position to come around.
I mean think about it. If every group has the same degree and source of proof, we call them hallucinations now, they all stand the same chance of being wrong. I'd rather be wrong on my terms.
Now a question. How am I closing myself off to experience?
Other people are able to experience these things so they aren't beyond the ken of human experience, and thusly should be quantifiable, recordable, etc.
There ARE unexplained phenomena* out there, things that occur over and over and can be observed and studied. So far the phenomena listed in the various religious texts aren't able to be studied. Give me something to look at and I'll see if I can help.
* Gravitic lensing occurs in space with no visible celestial body to cause it. The new theories of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are growing from that. A whole substrate of existance that effects our world but is thus far invisible. Invisible Clowns from Dimension X anyone?
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle
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