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To: kosta50
My comment was not ridiculing human fancy, but showing that saying that something is "too difficult" to believe is an oxymoron. There is no limit to what man can believe, if he is willing!

I think my point still holds. Perhaps you'd prefer to state that some people are unwilling to believe what they can't picture and understand in human terms. As opposed to the Credo quia impossibile!

We can just as easily believe that someone likes us as it is to believe that someone hates us.

I guess you've never been a teen-age girl! ;-)

5,802 posted on 12/24/2010 8:03:50 AM PST by maryz
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To: maryz
I think my point still holds. Perhaps you'd prefer to state that some people are unwilling to believe what they can't picture and understand in human terms. As opposed to the Credo quia impossibile!

In your daily life you are unwilling to believe a lot of things because they are either impossible or highly improbable, because we all do. The criterion sane poeple use is the reality of the world as we know it. We don't leap off the tall buildings believing it's possible we will successfully glide our way down. We don't attempt to walk over the river, believing it's possible we can walk on water.

Then we walk into a church and something happens. The real world ceases to exist, and the impossible and the unseen become the norm. What happened? Did we leave our brains at the doorstep? How else to explain that perfectly rational people can surrender to the irrational, as if someone flipped a switch, and all of a sudden people can live inside the belly of a fish for three days, donkeys talk, the dead get up and walk away, and congenitally blind suddenly see.

You are right, some are unwilling to believe whatever our resourceful and apparently limitless fancy can come up with, unless it corresponds to the way the real world is.

5,813 posted on 12/24/2010 10:56:39 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: maryz
I guess you've never been a teen-age girl! ;-)

Not even in my wildest dreams. Although you believe it's possible? :)

5,815 posted on 12/24/2010 11:04:15 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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