realistically speaking you have to be of flesh and blood and hence real and is that not rational ?...merle
Bill!, Aren't experiences also illusory in the sense that an experience requires someone to have the experience? Mike --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > Joe, > > Right, sort of. > > To be a 'rationalist' is to be someone who depends on rationality which is > clearly illusory. > > As someone who practices zen which is based entirely on experience I would > hope I would be an 'experientialist' - or a 'realist'. > > ...Bill! > > > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@> wrote: > > > > Bill!, > > > > I'd say the concept may be rational, although there is not an empirical > > demonstration or proof of existence of such a being. > > > > We know too that various Doctors of the Church did their darnedest along > > rational lines, chief among them Augustine. > > > > --Joe > > > > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > > > I don't see anything rational about the concept of God at all...Bill! > > >
