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I had a dream this morning that has altered my way of thinking. I am usually agnostic when it comes to God, switching from theism to atheism according to the latest observation. Having said that, I believe that this dream came about to let me know for sure, that God does exist.

I don’t remember much of the dream, but it seemed that throughout it, various different types of people appeared before me, conducting certain ‘moral tests’. I reacted to what they had to say, and I don’t know if I passed all of these tests, but the dream continued to move forward.

Then, at some point, everything went dark and black as if existence ceased to be. Immediately after this, I heard a voice say something like, ‘Let there be Creation’ and so things started to exist once again. I then said out loud, ‘There is a God!’ and suddenly, I was inside a geometrical ‘sphere’ of some kind. I said, ‘It’s Sacred Geometry’ referring to this structure as I moved the different sections of the sphere until I exited it.

As I got out of the sphere, I found myself falling out of the sky from a tremendous height. Not only that, but I could see the Earth below me, it was round and looked just like how NASA shows it, with the right colours and all. I heard the first couple of seconds of The X Files theme song and I knew this was God’s doing. There was daylight, I could see the Sun shining brightly and although initially I was afraid, I settled with it and fell toward the Earth in peace. When I got close to the ground, I got scared again as I was about to land on a hard surface. Then a voice guided me to land onto some water. I landed on the water and I was fine. The rest I don’t really remember either, but shortly after, I woke up.

There was more to this dream, but I don’t recall it in details, only fragments. I believe that someone said that I ‘had gone to the end of the world searching for God. That when I found Him, I made sure to let myself know that God exists by travelling back in Time to let my younger self know’.

So, what does this all mean?

Perhaps it is God who creates our dreams and communicates with us through them. I don’t think it’s the subconscious but rather, different dimensions. So, every time we go to sleep, we automatically plug into these dimensions. Sometimes, we enter lower dimensions, when we experience bad dreams and nightmares, other times, we proceed into higher dimensions, where everything seems bright, clear, and optimistic.

I feel like I can believe in God once more, but I know that at some point, I’ll question this belief again. This means that I must persevere, as I also know from experience that when I have lost faith in God, God often shows up, so I know that God will let Himself be known when necessary. What I need to do now is believe that a moral authority does exist, even though it may seem like there isn’t anyone in charge of cosmic justice. God may seem absent from reality, but God is present in the infinite dimensions of dreams.

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a posteriori and a priori | The Philosophy Student

So, what is the difference between the terms a posteriori and a priori?

a posteriori: after experience.

a priori: independent of experience.

a posteriori knowledge depends on a justification of experience, to that which is contigent.

Example: a posteriori knowledge is that Canberra is the national capital city of Australia, or that your PC is on your desk.

a priori knowledge is that which is necessary and independent of experience.

Example: 2 + 2 = 4 or knowing that all bachelors are unmarried men.

Having said this, American philosopher Saul Kripke, argued that there are contigent truths that can be known a priori, as well as, necessary truths that are only discovered a posteriori.

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What the Bleep Do We Know!? | The Philosophy Student

"All I know is I know nothing." - Socrates

This is so true!

 

I'll give you one example:

A close friend and I chatted on the phone recently. He has a degree in psychology, and was studying science in order to study medicine, so you know, a very intelligent guy. He is currently studying computer science, and at the start of the academic year, we got to catch up at university. This friend is one to be scientific, logical, and coming from an academic point of view, he is very knowledgeable. He's the kind of guy who thinks about anything and everything! And he often brings me up to speed on many current topics as I'm usually thinking my stuff through and not doing much research on recent issues. So, I'm somewhat naive in the sense of current affairs but I have, generally, a good philosophical understanding having had some time to think things through.

I mentioned to my friend that I had recently watched the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know!? and he did a quick search on wikipedia, as he had not heard of it before. Now, I must say that I don't normally do too much research when it comes to to a TV series, film, documentary, or other videos before I watch them. I may watch the trailer, do a bit of scoping for some other information and kinda get a "feel" for it. I then decide on this general feeling if I want to watch it or not. If I was interested in learning something new, I'd watch a documentary with the idea that it would be factual. So, up until recently, I had thought that all documentaries were non-fiction, but as it turns out, they are often based on opinions and they tend to have biases.

So, I thought I had learnt a grander picture of things, with the kind of meaningful stuff I crave, in the pragmatism of the scientific enterprise...but no. It was only pseudoscience.

At the end of it, I knew that I knew nothing.

 

Note: Further study required.

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