There was so much presumption in this response that I had to respond point by point.
1. I spent 5 years at a church school, chapel and prayers, morning and evening 7 days a week. I spent 10 years as an evangelical Christian with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I spent a few years converting to Judaism, and then I was elected to the committee of the leading synagogue in my country. I was accepted because I have a profound understanding of the bible plus an innate wisdom. I was highly respected. I then spent a few years studying the law of attracting, shamanism, and I don’t know what else. In all, somewhere about 40 years of study. To presume that I haven’t looked at the things that you mention is a bit off-kilter, don’t you think?
2. We do not have the ability to change anything with either our thoughts or our attitude. People who are able to change things generally are genetically gifted or they have resources and power. Or they take for granted that they live in the first world, and things are more easily attained there.
3. To be blunt, I have a science degree. I’m assuming that you don’t. Because if you did, you would know that all that interpretations of quantum physics by new age followers is complete bs.
4. “I content that you are much more than you realize.” I realize exactly who I am. Gifted in six or seven areas. Wise. Highly knowledgeable. At least 20 lifetime’s worth of experience simply because of the extremes that I have lived through. And I don’t suffer from a lack of self-esteem. So attempting to tempt me with how great I will be if only I will believe this or that is pointless.
5. Many things change through conflict. France took off the heads of its rich, and the country has been a successful republic every since. Conflict caused apartheid South Africa to finally surrender.
6. Atheists feel that they are looked down upon? Really? I’ve living in Europe, and atheism is pretty mainstream there.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/atheists-countries-list-six-world-most-convinced-a6946291.html
7. So let me put this to you. We are both sitting in a café. You tell me that there is an invisible elephant in the room. There are six of us in the room. You are the only one convinced that there is an invisible elephant in the room. We can’t see it, and you point out that one cannot see anything that is invisible. That is true. But then, it’s also possible that you’re delusional, and there is no way that we can tell the difference. So, my contention would be that it’s the person with the claim that cannot be proven that needs to be doing the proving. Certainly atheists don’t believe in god. We can’t find the evidence, and the onus is not on us to prove that god exists.
8. I have no intention of reading idiots. I’ve already read far more of them in my life than I had need of. Mainstream science has rejected Bruce Lipton’s ‘ideas,’ and Greg Braden is a nut case. Science is heading nowhere near here. That’s because the scientific methodology – the way of measuring and establishing fact – has already discredited those two charlatans.
9. We are not super beings. There is nothing spiritual about us. We are animals – just the same way all other species on this planet are animals. Yes, we’ve evolved very successfully in terms of survival and building cities and technology, etc. However, we are still just another species. There is no ‘spiritual’ evolution that will make us semi-gods. That’s hubris and wishful thinking speaking.
10. Love. Agape – one of the many words that the Greeks have for love. Oh, how the pastor used to love telling us that. I believe that there are more important things in the world than love. An example would be a more equitable distribution of wealth for a start. Or for people to stop driving their motor cars. If everybody scraped their cars and started using public transport, we would be a lot further along the way in defeating climate change. But it’s much easier to hide behind belief in super-beings than to give up current material possessions. And just for the record, I haven’t had a car for 15 years, don’t own a house, a Tv or anything else. I have four suitcases which contain all my possessions.
11. No, you haven’t changed the world. Remember that when you try imprinting on someone else to believe what you believe.
12. The efforts by some to get science on their side reveals just how much authority science has. Sorry. Science is not on your side, no matter how many delusional people try to interpret various results to mean something ‘spiritual.’
13. No, I am not intrigued by the ‘possibilities of nonsense.’
14. There is a vast difference between having an open mind that weighs the facts and the evidence and having the kind of mind that accepts things without evidence. Generally, people like you comprise the latter.
15. You’re forgiven the rant. I am quite capable of giving as good as I get.
