Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

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    8 months ago

    I have experienced weird things and I think it is something that is an explainable natural phenomena that humans attribute to the supernatural in their ignorance.

    Like the “ominous feeling” of a basement being stuff like radon or unshielded wiring, things that are explainable without the supernatural.

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      18 months ago

      A feeling that something is watching you? Some people end up experiencing supernatural phenomena after having such feelings. Especially if it’s accompanied with a sense of dread.

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        8 months ago

        Delusions and hallucinations are a thing. Ever feel your phone vibrating in your pocket when it actually wasn’t ? That’s a hallucination, nothing supernatural about it. Feelings aren’t a reliable way to assess reality, and relying on feelings to make decisions is a recipe for disaster.

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            18 months ago

            Sure. There’s no reason not to, considering the brain, which is a physical object. Everything we think and do is a product of the physical world.

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              18 months ago

              Actually, no one knows. There isn’t any hard concrete evidence that proves that this current reality is absolute true reality.

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                18 months ago

                Unless there’s evidence of an alternative reality, you might as well be talking about leprechauns and unicorns.