Originally Posted by gdawson6
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Accepting things which cannot be proven is the only close minded thing, IMO.


Even if you experienced them yourself? I would call that very close minded if you experienced something and still weren't willing to believe that it happened, even if you had no way to prove it...


Well, I'm talking about other people's experiences. If something happened to me I cannot expect other people to simply blindly accept what I've said.

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Wait, do you mean prove it to yourself or prove it to others?


I don't really mean prove it to anyone, that's not the purpose of my previous posts. I'd like you to make sure you're understanding that I am not denying possibilities - I simply deny that they are certainties.

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But no one in this thread, as I can see, has denied a thing.

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But no one has made this kind of statement here.


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When we die we become worm food, all that we ever were, beyond the memories we leave in other people’s minds and the legacies we may leave in our works cease to exist. Or minds are gone irrevocably, our bodies rot away and feed the plants just as any other animals bodies do.

Isn't that statement denying possibilities?


I believe the poster in question has also acknowledged that he could very well be wrong, so I don't see his statements as being on par with, say, a religious person, or someone stating something as absolute, undenial fact. What is certain however is that I am not closed-mindedly denying the possibility of anything. It is only that I wish to express a preference for investing time in things which I can verify with greater ease.