Hi, I'm blown away from everyone's responses. I wish beyond hope that I had the time to respond with the same attention given, I can't. I makes soaps for 5 fairs/events, charity, each year and the big one is coming up, 600 soaps. I'm trying to get funding for the first time too, 600 soaps for this one fair, the Wellness Fair here in Riverside (mental health).

My Dad is the one who put the cross on our mountain here.

This isn't even my philosopher, David is a Christian, my philosopher is Dr. Dennis Polis, a Catholic, and a contributor here, Dfpolis. He uses the term "quasi-fact." "quasi-science." Good memories.

The naturalists in this community, one/s commenting here, you've restored my faith in humanity. So, polite.

I think the gravity of the sun changes its shape causing tidal forces. I don't know, I'm not that smart.

I like David Bentley Hart.

hi, this subject is my life's work. I've been beyond and back three times. Once was the Gift of Rapture, once was God taking me out of existence after being put to death in the electric chair, a lucid dream and then third was watching the movie Miracles are from Heaven on opening day March 16th 2016. I went with the little girl to heaven as she went in the movie, extrovertive mystical experience. I make soaps and one was in my pocket. I make them and give them away. I tried ferociously to give that one away before I got to the theater but God had another plan. He took that soap in my pocket and gave it to me along with the feelings from thousands of recipients of my free soap. He gave me every feeling every one of those people felt across a period of time each of them had those feelings of appreciation. God took all of those thousands of people's gratitude, every feeling from receiving the soap, taking it home, showing it, sharing it, feeling the joy & what not, thousands of people times a half dozen feelings or more, and God put it all on me in a timeless moment.

It was like going beyond and back. The Rapture was the best, the soap experience 2nd, and being taking out of existence was million times worse than how hell is described. Eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has in store for those of us who love Him. Happy Palm Sunday.

Some people use other people as a means to an end, and good people don't. Good people treat other people as important in of themselves.

My professor friend just installed a new thermostat for me, I helped a little bit. He always makes me feel better about myself. It's the easiest thing in the world imo to know another's intent, the problem I have is letting go of negative people.

It's like a train wreck, i just have to keep attending. The fault of negative people in my life is all mine.

Wishing you the very best! What a great post!

Hi, hope today finds you well, & happy. Your position is referred to as psychoneural identity theory, the belief the brain produces the mind, the theory that brain states are identically mental states.

I'm not an adherent for the reasons I gave you above. 1. I direct my awareness. 2. Mental facts are not a consequence of physical facts. 3. A mental state can be dispositional with no accompanying physicality, & 4. In sum, the function of the noetic subsystem of mind is evaluative & supervisory.

All 4 of these things are my experiential reality every waking moment of my life and some of the time when I'm sleeping too.

83 (footnote) While Dennett makes complex neurophysiological arguments, the issue can be resolved by simple reflection. For information to unite at a single locus, it must unite at a point, because uniting in a finite region, however small, is no different in principle than being spread over the whole brain. No single point can have the differentiation to represent complex data physically. The idea that physically encoded information must unite at a single locus is untenable, regardless of details. - God, Science & Mind: The Irrationality of Naturalism by Dennis F. Polis, Ph.D. Dr. Polis is a physicist and has studied the Hard Problem of Consciousness extensively throughout his life. He's also a contributor here, dfpolis.

While we disagree about God, science & naturalism, I'd like to thank you for the polite conversations. I appreciate you articulating your position and how you frame it in the context of it being your position and not something you claim to be experiencing. I really do appreciate that, you very well have the courage of your convictions and aren't stating those as facts for me. Thank you!

For a glimpse into the phenomenology of psychic experience I suggest Dfpolis #22 The Mind Body Problem & Dfpolis #45 Knowledge and Mysticism, both on YouTube.

If there's nothing more to know about us than our bodies then how could we even be aware of that? How would my body know it's only a body? How would my body make the negative impact of the supernatural intelligible to itself?

I direct my awareness. On prima facie evidence that probably doesn't seem all that earth shattering to you, but it proves false psychoneural identity theory, the belief the brain produces the mind.

The phenomenology of psychic experience has been confirmed to several hundred sigma, several hundred standard deviations from a normal distribution. That's if you can't see yourself directing your awareness.

I grew up surrounded by doctors of jurisprudence. I know a lot about evidence, it's not a one word affair in law school.

peace.

Sometimes the evidence is clear but we just don't want to see it. My pastor is Matt Brown, Sandals here in Riverside Ca. One of 8 churches he pastors, founded. His mantra is "Be real with God, be real with myself and be real with others."

"Gods have not been demonstrated." There's something of the mystical there.

All my best, sincerely