Reply #149: now this a wonderfully useless poll, but the thread is awesome!!

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People arguing science versus individual belief and vice versa should always take a step back and realize that what is real to a body in the very physical sense as percieved in that bodys mind is whats real to them.

What some of you are trying for here seems to be a conversion to your own principles of sanity, in this argument one side is crazy/irrational and the other is deprived of experience, but where do you come together?? Where do you bridge that gap between scientific reasoning and what your mind has percieved as an actual physical experience?

You tolerate anothers belief, with an open mind. To cast aspersions for lack of experience or lack of scientific reasoning drives a wedge between the physical body and its "psyche-emotional" (is that a real word?) heart. Balance dictates this if nothing else. How else do you willfully gain knowledge if you're not open to at least the possibility.
I very sincerely mean that for both sides and some of the inbetween.

just a few one hundreths of a cents worth on this...sorry so long!