Vladdo,
I'm quite happy that I have experienced the external God.
I don’t doubt it, just as the chap next to you is quite happy he experienced leprechauns. The problem each of you has though absent either of you offering a method to test your remarkable claims is that there’s no reason for anyone
else to take either one seriously – and certainly not to take one such claim more seriously than the other.
…because I know the difference between a guess and conviction.
What is the difference? So far, all you’ve suggested is that you’re
convinced that your guess is a good one. So what?
I didn't believe and now I do. I have been changed from one thing into another. I have travelled from A to B.
How lovely for you. So has the leprechaunist. So?
As I said I was gifted a linguistic framework in which I describe my experience.
I’d ask for you money back if I were you given your semi-literacy, but in any case claiming to have been “gifted” something is begging the question (again). You’ll need to demonstrate that there’s something to do the gifting if you want anyone else to take the claim seriously.
Other language frameworks are inadequate for the purpose as are other philosophies.
For you no doubt, as for that matter “other language frameworks are inadequate for the purpose as are other philosophies” for some others when the purpose is leprechaunism.
Given how poor your use of language and how inadequate your grasp of philosophy by the way, do you not think you’re on awfully thin ice relying on them to assert universal truths of objective “facts”?
I know I am not guessing.
No, you’re
guessing that you’re not guessing. We know that because you have neither reason nor evidence to support the claim to knowledge.
what points?
Try this one for starters:
Like I said, the burden of proof still has you foxed I see. If I said that I heard a sound from my garage the other day so it's a trapped dragon that made it you'd (presumably) say something like:
1. I don't doubt that you had an experience of some kind - you heard a sound.
2. Your reaching for the explanation "dragon" though has neither logic nor evidence to support it, and so fits exactly the characteristics of a guess.
3. Other (though less thrilling) explanations are moreover available - maybe a tin of paint fell off a shelf for example.
Imagine then that I replied:
"No, if you are saying that my interpretation is indistinguishable from a guess then it's jolly well down to you to back up that positive assertion.
Come on then hotshot."
What kind of twat would you think me to be?
