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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: what does it mean to talk to God [a brief attempt at an answer]
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 11:41:05 EST
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> > You look for other corroborative evidence.

> There is no other corroborative evidence for a subjective religious
> experience.

There is if in this religious experience some revalation of the future
is offered.  Example:  I have a very realistic dream that makes a
very powerful impression on me.  In this dream someone says, "at
exactly 19:32 on Saturday, the Symbolics 3670 will crash due to a
FEP RTS error with 77777712 in the status register."  Lo and behold on
the day in question you sit before the console and the system crashes
with the very error status.  You know that it isn't your imagination
because you wrote the down this prediction and discussed it with others
long before it happened.

There are similar ways to verify the validity of subjective experience
when they involve reality and concrete proof.  Otherwise there is only
your ssubjective reality.
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