XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.consciousness, talk.origins   
   From: earle.jones@comcast.net   
      
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    "Uncle Davey"  wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > It doesn't matter how many cases of this there are in the lives of people   
   > they know and even in their own lives, they will choose to ignore them under   
   > the banner of rationalism.   
   >   
   > One time I was driving on the road and one car overtaking me like a maniac   
   > had a head on collision with another car coming the other way. Both cars   
   > spun around and came to a halt in the road one in front of me and one behind   
   > me, each facing back the way they came. Since the road was not broad enough   
   > for them to spin around like that next to me without hitting me I could not   
   > work out how it had happened, and to this day there seems only one   
   > explanation.   
   >   
   > Uncle Davey   
      
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   And what is that explanation, Dave?  Don't keep us in suspense.  My   
   guess would be that the molecules in you and your car just happened   
   to line up with the other car's molecules in such a way that you   
   could just pass through them unharmed.   
      
   Is that the explanation?   
      
   earle   
   *   
      "It may take the form of the condescending believer   
   who smiles with the wisdom of he who has a true glimpse   
   into the universe, in response to questions about the   
   validity of their God Experience. They cannot and will   
   not challenge its validity...Instead, they smile and   
   walk away, knowing that despite all other uncertainties   
   that have ever been proven, only their experiences are true."   
      
               --Michael A. Persinger   
                 Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs   
      
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