[extropy-chat] Re: John Wright Finds God

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

John, if finding (having been found by) God will help you write more
books as good as the Golden Age, I am all for God:-)
Seriously, your words quoted below are quite intriguing. Perhaps you
care to elaborate, not everyone here is a "fundamentalist atheist" you
know.
All the best,
Giulio

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:10:49 -0600, john-c-wright at sff.net
<john-c-wright at sff.net> wrote:> You must forgive me for being
close-mouthed about the details when speaking to
> strangers. It is my own inadequacy that stills my pen. An event beyond human
> understanding cannot be described in human words to those who have no referent
> experiences, no frame, in which to understand it. If you wonder how I, as a
> human, could have witnessed an event beyond human understanding, I can only hint
> that we humans are not what we think we are. The truth of the matter is far
> more  glorious than we suspect.
> 
> My question to my respected fellow atheists (if I may so call you, for I have
> only departed your company recently) is this: what does an honest and rational
> man do when he has a supernatural experience?
> 
> Does he, like Scrooge, claim Marlowe's ghost is a bit of beef, a product of bad
> digestion? Does he accuse himself of hallucination rather than entertain the
> opinion that his axioms might be mistaken? Occam's razor, plus a modicum of
> intellectual integrity, would seem to militate against this assumption.
> 
> I ask this in all seriousness. What does one do when overwhelming evidence
> suddenly breaks in on you that your entire system of the world, so carefully
> constructed by materialist rational philosophy over many years of painstaking
> thought, is utterly wrong and discredited? Pretend it did not happen?
> 
> Once upon a time, I saw the Goodyear blimp hanging over the town where I went
> to  college. Back on campus, I told some friends of mine of the sighting. All of
> them knew of my sobriety and honesty, and yet not one of them believed me. Not
> one. Even though I am an avowed skeptic of long practice and impeccable
> credentials, I was at a loss to explain their skepticism.
> 
> But, gosh, am I glad I did not see a flying saucer.
> 
> Yours truly, John C. Wright