How many Christians are here?

I am a Christian. However, I don't attend church, because I'm not very social. On the other hand I keep God close to my heart. I am a sinner, and my heart is full of regrets. I feel that every day I find a new way to spit on all I have been given and I just can't turn back some things. So I feel the need for salvation. I believe Jesus came to earth to show us the dangers of ``amor sui', and is our savior. I certainly accept him as my savior.

Is anyone else here a Christian? I imagine most of you are atheists, agnostics or of other religions. This is ok with me, as I understand it is what is fashionable amongst young people these days. However, I'm always happy when I meet a fellow Christian in an unexpected place :)

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It's not something that just exists in your head. It's something that exists period. It's not physical, you can't touch it, see it, taste it, or hear it, but it exists anyway. You can know it exists with certainty.

There's a difference between knowing something through logic and knowing it because you "feel" that you know it. Not even the number itself really exists.

The axiom of the relation of the quality is defined by: "Two objects x and y are equal if and only if x has every property y has, and y has every property x has."

The definition for property can be made more "rigorous" by using things like propositional functions, but in the end it always relies upon assumptions and high level concepts created by what you've learned from the world.

If the world or your perception is faulty or obfuscated, you can't know that anything you know or feel that you know really exists.

You can only know that what you know is a representation of something that exists, but you don't know what it is. If you can't even satisfy the basic axioms without running into mutual dependence problems, drawing far more complex conclusions out of thin air like "God and my soul exist because I know it!" is nonsense.

When thinking about these things, you should always assume you're living in a dream. In your dreams, nonsense and illogical things happen, and they don't even segue properly, but you don't notice/care because the logic you use and take as "normal" in dreams is twisted anyway. When you wake up, you realize that the dream was messed up and strange.

Realize that reality is probably the same thing. To some system that can process the world "better", we would likely seem absolutely insane and broken. We can process the world better (assumingly) than people with mental diseases like psychosis and schizophrenia, therefore they seem broken to us because their behaviour seems illogical, inconsistent, or destructive.

People who choose to know that they know things because they feel that they know them seem broken to me.