What comes to mind is that Christian Existentialists want to disregard reason when it comes to faith. I can't make any sense of this idea. As far as I can see, this leads to nonsense. When you take the leap of faith, you may as well jump into the abyss. Throw out reason and you may as well throw out your brains. I'm using reason in the very broad sense, not just reason as it pertains to logic, but reason that is behind language and our experiences.
It seems as though Christian Existentialists want to throw up their hands because they can't answer certain questions. I contend that reason is what is needed to answer the questions, and if we can't get the answers, we keeping working at it, we don't give up (like the Christian Existentialists). — Sam26
Why do you classify a dream as a brain malfunction? — Metaphysician Undercover
Whether a hallucination is veridical is impossible to determine. — Hanover
Assuming you are a believer (perhaps you're a Fundy, not sure), was Jesus' resurrection logical, supernatural or something metaphysical and transcendent? — 3017amen
Via cultural biases - which may or may not be correct - their own estimations of the person they are dealing with and their own experiences.How do you think psychiatrists determine what is, and what is not a hallucination? — Sam26
It's not impossible to determine, what makes something a hallucination, IS, the fact that it's not veridical, which is why some people call NDEs hallucinations. How do you think psychiatrists determine what is, and what is not a hallucination? — Sam26
Are you saying that the reasons why we are here, are important, yet not understandable? — 3017amen
No, I'm saying that we may not understand all the reasons, but we may understand some of the reasons. — Sam26
Christian Existentialists, at least the ones I've read, are more about taking a leap of faith against reason, which is a religious move. — Sam26
What comes to mind is that Christian Existentialists want to disregard reason when it comes to faith. I can't make any sense of this idea. As far as I can see, this leads to nonsense. When you take the leap of faith, you may as well jump into the abyss. Throw out reason and you may as well throw out your brains. I'm using reason in the very broad sense, not just reason as it pertains to logic, but reason that is behind language and our experiences.
It seems as though Christian Existentialists want to throw up their hands because they can't answer certain questions. I contend that reason is what is needed to answer the questions, and if we can't get the answers, we keeping working at it, we don't give up (like the Christian Existentialists). — Sam26
I don't want to turn this into a thread on Existentialism, you keep wanting to go there. — Sam26
do you believe all living things are conscious? — dazed
at a certain point the brain gets complex enough to create consciousness
but this of course means that there can be no consciousness without brain activity
so there can not be consciousness after brain death — dazed
I can see what you mean that my experience was more of an unusual experience than an actual near death experience, but perhaps what you are saying about my experience is true of near death experiences too, because the individuals did not die in the permanent sense. — Jack Cummins
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