religious experiences Flashcards

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ineffability

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elements of experience go beyond human understanding and language.
cannot be put into human Language
surely if you had met god you would be able to put it in a way that could be understood by people.

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Noetic

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get an understanding that was not previously understood learning something that was not already known.

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transverse

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brief experience but effects can last a life time. can last seconds but impacts the rest of your life. for example you have an experience where you are told to stop drinking because you may end up dying.

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passivity

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experience happens to then and chose not to understand it.
you understand that it has happened but you choose not to act on it changing your ways or understand it.

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Richard dawkins

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he was in the highlands and there was a sound that he could only describe as the devils voice and said that that was what it was, it was later discovered that it was the sound of the devil bird the Manx
said that this was an argument made out of human ignorance. if he had known what the bird had sounded like he would not have assumed. (ignorance)

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the god helmet

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this was by Micheal petinger and he said that he had a helmet and when you placed it on your head that you could have a religious experience.

(this would mean that the cause of the experience was not god but could instead be science).

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problems with the god helmet

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poor metholodigy as people knew what was expected to happen could have had effect on the results of experiment
this was repeated and not the same result as before

there was a doctor that tried it out and he did not have a religious experience.

this reduced god down to a helmet. piece of science this would mean that god was the cause.

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placing re’s down to mental illness

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we can see this is Pauls visions it was suggested that he could have had epilepsy but the mental state of Paul was not know

due to temporal epilepsy and not god.

would this mean that all people that have had an experience can it be placed down to epilepsy. wrong to suggest this.

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cumulative argument

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this means that it is using more than one piece of evidence and relying on a combination of factors. more than one persons account of the same event bringing arguments together.

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the principle of testimony

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this means that if someone tells us that we have a religious experience then we have no reason not to believe them we don’t have reason not too

if a person that we trust tells us that they went to the shop this morning then we have no reason not to believe them so why do we make the exception for religious experiences.

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weaknesses of re’s individual

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  • there is no one to bear testimony
  • can not be repeated or revisited.

-no numerical strength.

  • could be down to a hallucination or a mental illness

-could be prone to lying or on a substance.

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strengths of individual re’s

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  • personal between you and god
  • can not be down to mass hysteria.

-in mass audiences people can adapt to fit the crowd.

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strengths of corporate experiences

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  • this has numerical strengths this means that there can be a testimony to it to strengthen the claim. if 8/10 people in a group have one how are the other 2 going to go against this as the minority.

-there can be people to give testimony and it can rule out mass hysteria and hallucination.

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weaknesses of corporate experiences

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-these can be mass hysteria and people or hypnosis

-these can be people following along with the crowd due to not wanting to be left out.

-William sergeant says that people can be conditioned to act a certain way

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example of a corporate experience

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the Toronto blessing this was in Canada and people were laughing in spirit and they were acting like animals in spirit there was one man that was drunk in spirit

why would god reveal himself to people acting like this is this how he wants to be known could this be down to people acting to fit the crowd.

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what is the numinous

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this means that there is a fear that it there spiritual about a spiritual presence and everyone has it it is a different kind of fear for example you would have a different fear if you were told that there was a tiger in the next room than if you were told that there was a ghost in the next room or an angel in the next room.

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sigmund fraud on religious experiences

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  • he says that religion is people trying to find a father figure when there’s is flawed
  • it provides a phycological safety net to people that can help them get through life.

-there are oceanic experiences and these are things like a childlike desire to find a father figure

-young children don’t have the ability to be able to tell the difference between them and their mothers for example when they are breastfeeding cant tell the difference.

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fraurburn

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  • he says that worshiping god is like worshiping human nature and that it Is the same thing

-we give god good human characteristics things like heroism this is a good human value.

-if we are not significant then we can imagine a god that values us individually.

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karl mark

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  • he said that there should be a rebellion when people realise what religion does
  • that religion should be like communism and not capitalism

-if you are a factory worker and you get abused you might put up with it due to the idea of heaven and hell

-religion was used by salve owners who would read verses about being obedient and even in factories in Britain and say people as a way of making money for economic reasons.

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ayers verification

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  • says that we need to be able to verify something to be able to prove that it is true
  • we need to be Able to prove it synthetically ( through the senses) or analytically
  • saying that god is loving can not be proved synthetically or analytically.

-have to be able to verify an experience.

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what does numinous mean.

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terrifying and fasinating. idea of a ghost vs a lion in the next room depends on if you believe it. would have a different type of fear it it.