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This op is directed towards individuals who claim they've "experienced god" or had an experience where they were "touched by god" etc.
We're going to assume that you had some experience that moved you; that inspired awe / joy / wisdom / etc in some way that you cannot explain except with god.
The goal of this thread: prove your experience was, specifically, your god. The burden of proof you're working against is the science of the brain that tells us we have 5 senses that work by electro-chemical signals passing between neurons. You want us to believe otherwise? You want us to believe that we can "experience" god?
Prove it.
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You've got to watch Contact! Jodie Foster is amazing. This clip will do. And what's great is that a character uses some of the exact words you used.
The main character is this woman who is looking for extra-terrestrial life and finds it. Based off of the Carl Sagan novel.
The are a couple of segments in the clip, but the first and last are most importent.
This is the rest of the last scene.
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ELLIE Is it possible that it didn't happen, yes. As a scientist I must concede that, I must volunteer that.
KITZ Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You admit that you have absolutely no physical evidence to back up your story?
ELLIE Yes.
KITZ You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing.
ELLIE Yes.
KITZ You admit that if you were in our position, you will respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism?
ELLIE Yes.
KITZ (Yelling) Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede that this journey to the center of the galaxy, in fact, never took place?!
ELLIE Because I can't. (mummers from crowd) I had an experience I can't prove, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real. I was part of something wonderful, something that changed me forever; a vision of the Universe that tells us undeniable how tiny, and insignificant, and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us we belong to something that is greater than ourselves. That we are not, that none of us are alone. I wish I could share that. I wish that everyone, if even for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and the hope, but... that continues to be my wish.
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A faith experience is impossible to prove. It's like the first clip, you can't prove you love someone. You ask the impossible, my friend.
And actually watch the clip please!