Yet you consistently miss what is presented to you as is evident by your pattern of continual misrepresentation of discussions.
Merely claiming that there is an "evident" "pattern of continual misrepresentation of discussions" isn't going to go unchallenged, (as you no doubt know by now). You claimed it, now substantiate your claim or, it must be concluded that your accusation itself misrepresents the pattern of our discussions.
You need to look closer at how I worded that. I was specific in my manner so as to distinguish the difference. I cued it well enough that it should have been obvious to most anyone. I do, though, attribute the tree's existence to God and I have no problem saying that, but that is not what I said in my post above.
Then there was no significant difference; you admit to attributing the tree's existence to "god" and yet, still provide no substantiating evidence to support that attribution.
I have indicated a case where you see something in a way that I cannot, just as I apparently see something in a way that you cannot. Granted there are devices that allow for detection of the wavelengths of light, but there always were not and in knowing that we see through the illusion of difference you wish to suggest.
It isn't an "illusion of difference", since mechanical devices cannot detect "illusions" in the same way the human eye/brain can be spoofed.
Where you suggest supernatural I realize that God is the most natural thing there is.
You can claim to "realize" whatever wished however, such a 'realization' is not an a priori fact. Further, that 'realization' is another way of presenting an unsupported claim since there is no evidential support for a 'realized' claim that "god is the most natural thing there is.
Conversely, a deity is defined as any supernatural being, (not at my 'suggestion' but, a thesaurus').
Well that is why traffic lights are uniform in their positions (least here in the US). Interestingly it is why I was not allowed as a tank crewman in the military.
Why, aren't tanks allowed to advance with or without a greenlight signal?
Your senses reveal to you the wavelength of green as a color and you do not apply any active attribution to do this, for me to do this I would have to apply such.
The attribution alluded to was that of a hypothetical "spiritual sense" akin to this color perception/imperception example you presented. That attribution, (to a hypothetical deity), has no substantiation to support it and is a circular argument, (e.g.; "trees exist, god made trees, therefore the existence of trees is attibutable to god" contains two unsubstantiated attibutions).
As far as color-blindness goes, the analogy does not parallel some hypothetical 'spiritual blindness'. Indeed, there is ample evidence throughout human history of 'spirituality' blinding reason.
I don't imply any 'spiritual sense' and I am not sure if you keep using that term to try and ridicule me or what. Where I have used it earlier in a hypothetical was to get a point across regarding senses and perception and the inability to detect things accordingly.
What you wrote attempted to conflate a hypothetical "spiritual sense" with an actual ability to "sense" that which those who do not possess it cannot by contrasting an inability, (color blindness), with it's logical parallel, ('spiritual blindness'). If this was not your intention, the reasoning is asysemetric and an inconsistent sophistry.
You are again looking at it wrong in your comparison of color-blindness and 'spiritual blindness' (again, really is that what you think I was saying?).
See the remarks above your question.
I am speaking of spirituality but not in some mystical way as it seems you perceive it to be. It is very natural to the point of being the only thing that really does make any sense at all.
It's "mystical" by default since no substantive evidence has been provided to support such 'spiritual' attributions as you've made/claimed. Further claims that it is "very natural" remain unsupported as well. Indeed, using one unsubstantaited claim to support another constitutes a mystically insubstantive syllogism.
My eyes reveal to me the tree as the shape and color of a tree of course, my hands the feel of bark and leaf, my nose the smells associated with the season and species of the tree. That isn't all I take in, though, there is this awestruck wonder of God's work ...
To reiterate the cognizant point there; attributing these things to "god's work" constitutes an unsupported claim.
Again, as I stated above I am not attributing them to "God's work", they are revealing themselves to me as "God's work". There is a very distinct difference in that an I am thinking you don't understand what I mean by it.
No, the substitution of "revealing" for 'attributing' makes no contextual difference at all. The 'revealation' remains an unsupported claim because it lacks evidence whether it's called a "revealing" or an revealed attribution. Summarily, you previously stated that "I do, though, attribute the tree's existence to God and I have no problem saying that ..." earlier in _this_ posted reply. Now, you are trying to split some imagined hair between 'attributing' and "revealing"? Really?
I suppose it would sort of (but not quite) be like if I suddenly could see the colors I was missing before, I wouldn't attribute them to anything I would simply see them as they were presented and could only acknowledge them as such. My acknowledgement of them as themselves is not an overt attribution, but simply my discernment of things I wasn't seeing previously (things that that were not invisible or even hidden, just unnoticed by me).
Such a claimed "discernment" remains an unsupported attribution, no matter how you try to spin it. You stated that, "I do, though, attribute the tree's existence to God and I have no problem saying that ..." and that's a direct attribution. Whether or not you can come up with similar 'euphemisms' for not really attributing such as "discerning", "reveal", "realize" your admission to the unsupported attribution remains.
It doesn't matter what you tell yourself if your are still attributing such things as being "made by god" without any substantiation for such an attribution beyond the empty claim. Do you fart and claim "god made it" or, no? [/quote]
The hilarious thing is I actually did that this morning. What can I say, the dog was not around to blame it on.
That works as well as blaming it on grandma, (and if she's passed away, her barking spider is a sign from beyond the grave?).
I must stress that last point as you seem to remain constant on this false idea that somehow I invoke a studied reflection on what I take in when actually nothing is farther from the truth.
Since I never suggested nor stated such a strawman idea instead, I'll clarify my position on your haybale. The only relevant point in regards to not reflecting, (reasoning), about what you perceive is that it lead to an unsupported attribution to "god's work". Whereas some reasoning about what is perceived leads at least to the provisional conclusion that there's no evidence to substantiate attributing what's perceived to a supernatural deity.
Again even in your denial here you again assert that I am attributing when I am not.
It isn't my denial; it's your denial of your own quoted words, ""I do, though, attribute the tree's existence to God and I have no problem saying that ...". Further claiming some undefined "limitations" on my part, (no doubt in some attempt to discredit the reasoning used to determine what is an attribution and what constitutes some sort of 'different' realization/discernment/revelation), is disingenuous.
You are quite mistaken here and this is perhaps due to your limitations on how you perceive things or my limitations on explaining that what I take in is recognized by my perceptions as from God in much the same way as your viewing green is recognized by your perceptions as green.
There is no rational comparison between unsubtantiated "perceptions as from god" and substantiated perceptions of physical wavelength frequencies. Specifically, the former is claimed by hearsay and lacks supportive evidence, while the latter is supported by physical objective evidence.
I am not processing along the lines of "this is wonderful and unexplained and thus must be of God" and I am similarly not thinking "this is a tree and thus is from God ipso facto".
As previously indicated, the only significance of your not using any reasoning process to inaccurately attribute the tree to "god" is that it provides some substantiation for a prior contention that 'faith' is not derived from a reasoning process. Regardless, it remains an unsupported attribution.
I see the tree and I also see God's work within and without the tree -- but I didn't always I used to only see the tree and then it was quite boring and plain and uninspiring (except for maybe during autumn).
Do you 'see' that claiming to "see God's work within and without the tree" is an attribution without substantiation or, must we circle 'round and 'round the tree like unto some pagan ritual of yore?