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Originally Posted by LordBalmung18

Literal disability, something i could probably have coasted by the rest of my life on. But that would make only work for me, and i have other people to be concerned with.

I don't want to press farther than I should, but it seems you are dancing around the real question I am asking. Which disability?

And while i could happily quote examples of extranormal and paranormal things i felt ive experienced, it would be pointless. At some points you either have to go look for yourself or stick your thumbs in your ears and pretend its not there.

Well, this is a discussion thread. To me, that implies that everyone should be fully explaining their viewpoint as convincingly as possible. Coming here to simply state your viewpoint without supporting evidence, and then explaining your lack of evidence for "you have to experience it gor yourself" is contrary to the idea of a discussion.

Originally Posted by Swordchucks

I simply find it interesting that atheists often refer to themselves as "enlightened". I'd like for an atheist to explain what makes them any more enlightened than someone who believes in God... because there's an awful lot of wise, intelligent, self-aware people that believe in God for me to think that a 20 year old atheist is enlightened and others are not. In fact, it seems awfully arrogant to me.

Well, first of all, I don't consider myself enlightened in the least. Hell, I consider myself somewhere between atheist and agnostic, so while I believe that there isn't a god, and the universe operates completly by scientific means, I know that I could be wrong, and that there is no way to disprove the existence of a god. I don't consider myself enlightened, but I do think that my viewpoint is right, just like everyone else. Oh, and Archbio did raise a really really good point.