The Great Reset

Dexter Sinister

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If or when you've had an experience like the unlimited amount of others who have you'd get it.

Ask around, they'll all say the same thing.
It's not unlimited, the number of people is finite. But you're right, I have asked around and heard multiple testimonies, and they do all say the same thing, more or less, with minor differences due to being Jews, Christian, or Muslims. Haven't managed to try it on a Hindu or a Buddhist though, don't know any. But testimony is not adequate for any significant claim, for the simple reason that anyone can lie, be deceived, or make a mistake. Nobody is above the risk of fallibility, and sincerity is worth nothing in establishing the credibility of anyone's testimony. Perception is a highly selective process, and is influenced by belief, context, expectation, emotional state, and a host of other variables. Cognition and memory are notoriously problematic, and prone to a wide range of errors, distortions, additions, deletions, substitutions, and amplifications, critical thinking is hard and has to be learned. Any personal testimony must therefore be treated as at best provisional and approximate, not as reliable evidence.
Edification through revelation is humbling. The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.
We don't need revelations to tell us that, Socrates had that one figured out about 2500 years ago.
 

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New ones every minute...

Maybe someday you'll understand maybe not.

It's weirder than déjà vu or your woman texting at the exact instant you decide to order a 4th scotch.
 

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Edification through revelation is humbling. The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.
In Christian theology, humility is a virtue:

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very natureof a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:4-8, NIV).

In the Great Reset of God in Christ, pride is cast off and humility is embraced.
 

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Must be at least 100 believer of various religions I have made a very simple offer to. Bring your for by for a cup of tea, and I will believe you. To date no one has taken me up on the offer. Ergo god does not exist. In any religion.
 

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Ok, what would you call this:

We were living in Calgary since hubby was posted there. He was still in the military at the time. Most of my family were in Edmonton. We had talked about going to Edmonton for Easter but my hubby had decided that he wanted to retire from the military. I hated it when he had to go away, sometimes for months at a time, so I was happy about his decision to retire. However, he decided to stay at home in Calgary for Easter so as to do some work around the house before we put it up for sale. We planned to move to Edmonton.

One morning, just before the long-weekend, I got up and I had this sensation of - got to go to Edmonton!! Now!!! I said to my hubby as he laid in bed, we have to go to Edmonton. He said, you go ahead, I'll stay here with the kidlet. I then said we HAVE TO GO TO EDMONTON!! It' important and I don't know why. It was as if someone was pulling my arm out of the bedroom to get the hell going!!

So I went to Edmonton for the long weekend by myself. I went to my grandparents place and stayed with them. I spent a lot of time with my " baba', took her shopping for booze & groceries. :)

Before I left, I told her that I would see her when we (finally) moved there. I just remember her standing by the kitchen stove, her apron on and she's wiping her hands on the apron & she said that she would "try to be there" when we got there. This was in April - we were to move in July. She passed May 1st. I was desolate but incredibly happy that I went to see her and spend some time with her when I did. I keep thinking what if I hadn't listened to whatever it was that was telling me I had to go?

So my question is: What was it that made me go to Edmonton that Easter long weekend? My hubby didn't want to go and I was inclined to stay with him until that morning when I felt this....thing - I honestly don't know what else to call it. Since then, I'm more inclined to think there is something more out there, even after death. I look forward to finding out!!
 
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Dexter Sinister

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What was it that made me go to Edmonton that Easter long weekend?
There are plausible and more prosaic explanations than the prescient intuition you're implying, but you may not like them, you might even find them offensive or insulting (a lot of people do), and they're unlikely to alter your belief about it anyway. For hints, examine my post #81.
 

Motar

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Ok, what would you call this:

We were living in Calgary since hubby was posted there. He was still in the military at the time. Most of my family were in Edmonton. We had talked about going to Edmonton for Easter but my hubby had decided that he wanted to retire from the military. I hated it when he had to go away, sometimes for months at a time, so I was happy about his decision to retire. However, he decided to stay at home in Calgary for Easter so as to do some work around the house before we put it up for sale. We planned to move to Edmonton.

One morning, just before the long-weekend, I got up and I had this sensation of - got to go to Edmonton!! Now!!! I said to my hubby as he laid in bed, we have to go to Edmonton. He said, you go ahead, I'll stay here with the kidlet. I then said we HAVE TO GO TO EDMONTON!! It' important and I don't know why. It was as if someone was pulling my arm out of the bedroom to get the hell going!!

So I went to Edmonton for the long weekend by myself. I went to my grandparents place and stayed with them. I spent a lot of time with my " baba', took her shopping for booze & groceries. :)

Before I left, I told her that I would see her when we (finally) moved there. I just remember her standing by the kitchen stove, her apron on and she's wiping her hands on the apron & she said that she would "try to be there" when we got there. This was in April - we were to move in July. She passed May 1st. I was desolate but incredibly happy that I went to see her and spend some time with her when I did. I keep thinking what if I hadn't listened to whatever it was that was telling me I had to go?

So my question is: What was it that made me go to Edmonton that Easter long weekend? My hubby didn't want to go and I was inclined to stay with him until that morning when I felt this....thing - I honestly don't know what else to call it. Since then, I'm more inclined to think there is something more out there, even after death. I look forward to finding out!!
You are on your way to finding out, DC.

“Theology is belief seeking understanding”
(Kreider, G., What is Theology? Dallas Theological Seminary. https://courses.dts.edu/).
 
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You are on your way to finding out, DC.

“Theology is belief seeking understanding”
(Kreider, G., What is Theology? Dallas Theological Seminary. https://courses.dts.edu/).
Precisely. Theology is belief without understanding. Belief comes first, understanding later (or never, don't matter).

When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
--Stevie Wonder
 

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Precisely. Theology is belief without understanding. Belief comes first, understanding later (or never, don't matter).

When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
--Stevie Wonder
Science is belief/hypothesis seeking understanding. Theology is a metaphysical science.
 

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Science is belief/hypothesis seeking understanding. Theology is a metaphysical science.
Science doesn’t begin with belief, except for its underlying assumption that the world is consistent and comprehensible, it’s a method for testing the truth content of ideas, and the only reliable one we’ve ever found. Metaphysical science is a contradiction in terms, metaphysics contains untestable, unverifiable claims, and that’s not science.
 
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Tecumsehsbones

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Science doesn’t begin with belief, except for its underlying assumption that the world is consistent and comprehensible, it’s a method for testing the truth content of ideas, and the only reliable one we’ve ever found. Metaphysical science is a contradiction in terms, metaphysics contains untestable, unverifiable claims, and that’s not science.
Nonsense! Next thing you'll be telling us is that physicists don't spend a lot of time staring at test tubes full of murky liquids!

Heresy!
 

Dexter Sinister

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Ever notice how most of the "scientists" in popular fiction are actually engineers?
Yep. I've also noted that most of the crackpot scientists put forward to lend scientific credibility to nonsense like creationism and the electric universe our old friend Darkbeaver was so fond of are also engineers.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Yep. I've also noted that most of the crackpot scientists put forward to lend scientific credibility to nonsense like creationism and the electric universe our old friend Darkbeaver was so fond of are also engineers.
Well, I suppose Dr. Strangehair setting up an experiment to observe photon-gluon interactions at temperatures over 3000C wouldn't exactly be riveting TV.