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But the similarities are what jump off the page. And they ultimately involve a delusion. For example, your delusion is the belief that a guy who was tortured and murder 2000 years ago rose from the dead, floated up high into the sky on a cloud, lives as a god, and that you have a personal relationship with this invisible being.

Mercy For All wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2012 at 9:30pm:

As I stated, the similarity involves the use of the mechanism of delusion, period. I agree that the fodder that makes up the delusion is significantly different. The finer points of your religious delusion are no doubt significantly different from those of the ancient Egyptians, for example.

DV wrote on Jun 26^th, 2012 at 12:51pm:


And your delusion is that empirical verification is the only adequate means of ascertaining truth.  It's circular and self-defeating.  Unless, of course, you place your faith in the efficacy of empirical verification as the only adequate means of ascertaining truth--a metaphysical trust, to be sure, since it cannot be empirically verified as the only adequate means of ascertaining truth.

And, by the way, you writing off my experiences as delusion seems to indicate a lot more than you could possibly know.