Intuition - learned or unexplained sixth sense phenomenon?

[koukla29]

BB - Thanks for the book suggestion - I'll put it on my list!  I love reading:)  Well, if it's true that intuition is learned, how do you explain a child's intuition?  They wouldn't have had the time and experience to build the knowledge base you are talking about.  I believe that there are some things we cannot explain.

[hatrick03]

Oh cool, I noticed that at least one of barn babe's posts was deleted from my thread - thanks, mods. :) There really IS a God (I mean mod - maybe a mod working through God?)!

[hatrick03]

Wow, for awhile there I thought I was the only one bothered by this poster. For the record, I normally don't mind offshoot conversations from the original topic on threads I've started, but I could tell by the tone of barn babe's posts that trouble was brewing. I shouldn't have addressed her calling dreams meaningless, but I did so in a nice fashion, expecting it to be one of those agree to disagree things. When I could tell that a debate was coming, I even tried to quell this poster by saying we all have our different views on the topic, could we get back to the original topic. I just didn't want what happened here - the cursing, rudeness, etc. to have been on my thread. I was still looking for feedback - someone came in late with a new take on the issue - and figured people would be deterred if there was a big, messy debate taking place on the thread. I guess I'm also used to another health board I visit that has stricter moderation - they are almost too anal about it, not wanting back and forth discussion taking place on threads, deleting anything that verges on off-topic. Anyway, I thought perhaps I was being too harsh, but then I saw some more of barn babe's postings. At least the mods deleted the post where she started namecalling. Sheesh.

I'm a liberal, too (it's possible to be a liberal and a Christian) - anti-war, pro affirmative action, anti-free trade, tree-hugging, liberal. It is difficult to live in a nation ran by a conservative president. I would imagine it would be even more difficult to be an atheist in the U.S. I live in an area that is socially conservative, and the predominate views on some socials issues bother me, but I realize that different people have different views and values. I've gotten into many a debate with my conservative dad, but it usually goes nowhere but down. As I've grown up a little, gotten a couple years past that early 20's period, I've had some meaningful political debates with my dad (i.e. didn't result in us stalking off in silence). I don't think his views bothered me in that I was threatened by them, exactly - they're just so different than mine that I couldn't understand how someone could think that way. I still don't get how a Christian can support war and capital punishment, for instance, but I just let it be. I'm fortunate to live somewhere where I'm free to believe in whatever I want. I don't make it my business anymore what others choose to believe in.

[green eyed lady]

Hahaha....you guys crack me up and I agree 1,000%....you guys made my day. Thanks. E

[AHP84]

Barn, just what are you trying to prove to everyone? Truth? What you "know" to be the "truth," from your standpoint?
If very few people want to believe what you represent as truth, why do you care? Isn't what *you know* good enough for you? Why keep exasperating yourself with us "ignernt folks" who can't be swayed from their "magical thinking?"
Seriously, you're worse about trying to force your "truth" down peoples' throats than any "Xtian" I've ever met in my life.
I'd still like to know why you're so very easily offended or threatened by *anything* faith-based and why you care what people post *in their faith-based opinion* if it doesn't affect you, or if you're not the OP?

So copy and paste and quote away on this one, because I'd really like to know your answers about these.

PS--I haven't seen anyone in this forum argue *proven scientific facts* or mathematics. I've only noticed arguments stem from your personal attacks on people who have a faith system (again, why do you care?).

[spade22]

"Science is science. Facts are facts.  What you've got is zilch. Nada. Untestable fantasies. "


Again, what are your views on how the universe came about?  What scientific evidence do you have to support these views?  I am not referring to evidence which shows that the universe is expanding (which can be extrapolated such that the universe came from  a single point as a result of a "big bang") - what I am asking you for is evidence, irrefutable proof, to support how the universe actually "came about" in the first place.

[mayflowers]

I've heard lithium is good for what barn babe has.  Maybe throw some xanax in too.  can you imagine waking up to this person everyday?  

Hey it's fine to think/believe whatever you want but she sounds a bit paranoid to me.