From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 08:23:00 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Charles Hixson wrote:
>
>> That said, I don't consider a hallucination supplied by a "God" to be
>> any proof...
>
> Well, if we claim that any/all experience of what appears to be a
> transcendent reality usually considered spiritual is in fact an
> hallucination then we have a rather closed loop system going, don't we?
> We can't possibly get any experience of anything transcendent because we
> will just chalk it up as hallucination or "activated archetype" and be
> done with it. So I am not at all clear there is anything that could be
> encountered that would in fact be convincing that God is... - samantha
There are those of us who would settle for a good
halucination. No drugs allowed however. Advanced
alien intelligences may apply, for I would think
they would have nanotech, therefore creating an
halucination in individual human brains would be
a good way to communicate with us.
A loose paraphase of an Arthur C. Clarke comment
says that any contact between two civilizations
of vastly different technological ability is always
destructive to the less advanced. Perhaps the
aliens (gods) are not talking on purpose. spike
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