From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 18:14:43 MST
Spike writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > ...How long would it take God, playing fairly, to
> > actually persuade you that He exists, and that all the
> > traditional stories in the Bible are true...?
> >
> > Me, about fifteen minutes. Lee
>
> For me, less than that. All I *ever* asked of god
> was one really really convincing hallucination, vision,
> or even a good lucid dream, in which he showed up and
> explained a few of the most basic questions.
But then, how indeed do you know that it wasn't an
illusion? What I have learned when dreaming is that
I can't get any information from people unless I
already know that information. They always go
silent when I ask about something they should know,
but don't.
But God, during my fifteen minutes alone with him,
would be able to explain all kinds of things to me
that would fit, and be exceedingly enlightening.
> The answer to that prayer was always hell no.
> At one point I even asked satan for similar
> indication of his existence, but the results
> were the same.
I always suspected you of having familiars.
> Eventually the entire theory had to go into the
> bit bucket for lack of supporting evidence.
Your pals let you down for your own good.
I did have one friend who was a much greater atheist
even than me. He was so incredible in his devoutness
that he claimed God would *never* succeed in convincing
Spencer of His existence. At every point, Spencer would
always suppose it to be something he ate, or some other
source of hallucination.
Lee
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