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Originally Posted by Vibecrewangel
. The fact is I have felt it. Just as I have felt love and hate. Depression and elation. You can try to put all of those things into words, but does it ever really encompass what those feelings do to you as an individual? Could you really explain color to person blind from birth? Does that make color any less real? Try to describe the taste of something to someone who has never tasted it. You can say, for example, it is salty. But what if the word salty hadn't been created?
If you had never learned to speak would that make anything you felt or saw or knew any less real? In reality, though words are important to us they are quite meaningless to everything else around us. When you were a child do you really thing you thought in words or did you think in concepts? Desires? Wants and needs? Words came later as ways to describe these things we already knew. We've all heard it before...Children come into this world knowing everthing. Stop and think about how true that statement really is.
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The way I interpret this: "I am right. I can't explain to you why. you will never be able to understand why. But I am right" And your last statement in particular is very simmilar to my trump card example.
There is, by the way, practically nothing in that entire statement concerning anything relevant to my posts. You are merely defending religion rather than adressing the more general issue of the metaphysical. You are all being very specific. this is whats mainly making me so angry. You seem fixated on a very narrow view of the entire "metaphysical world".
It'd be like discussing your favorite foods and everyone just said their favorite type of donut. But with infinite types of food and a couple thousand or so types of donuts.