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Old 05-06-2008, 02:38 PM
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Hi Someday,

While typing my previous post, your new one came up.

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The fact that experiences are different doesn't matter. This is like saying a large volume of trees are not a forest because all of the fauna is of different species. Each tree is unique, singular and individual. But the forest itself is the sum of this variety of individuals. I look at experiential testimony the same way. A certain amount of it may be colored by what we already believe or disbelieve.
I don't see why the trees analogy would be a valid one? Different types of trees can co-exist. I don't see how blatantly contradictory, mutually exclusive experiences could, if they are all are held to be true at the same time.

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Peter
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