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Oh, so before you learned about the theorems, you thought you could know anything, and the theorems set you right on that point? And somehow that was a theological or transcendental experience?


There's a big difference in the emotional experience of thinking you know something, and actually having proof of it. I think most theists would be similarly amazed by an encounter with a deity.




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