Wife: Who was that half-naked woman I just saw running down the stairs of our house as I entered? Cheating husband: No, you couldn't have seen that. Wife: Why not? Cheating husband: Because I am a faithful husband who never cheats on his wife. Wife: So how come I saw that half-naked woman who ran down the stairs of our house as I entered? Cheating husband: You must have just been hallucinating. Wife: But I even talked with her, demanding she explain herself. She gave some crazy story that she accidentally walked into the wrong house, and started to take off her clothes so she could shower. Cheating husband: It must have been a simultaneous auditory and visual hallucination. Wife: But I'm a perfectly sane person, not someone who hallucinates. And I've asked the neighbors, and they say they keep seeing scantily clad women exiting our house. Cheating husband: All of those people must have also been hallucinating. Wife: But I talked to three people who all saw a scantily clad women exiting our house last Sunday. Cheating husband: That must have been a coincidence, in which more than one person hallucinated exactly the same thing. Wife: But what about those strange woman's panties I sometimes find under our bed? They are not any panties I ever bought. Cheating husband: You can't have seen that, because I'm a totally faithful husband. Wife So why did I see such panties not just once, but several times? Cheating husband: It must have been another one of your hallucinations. Wife: I asked the clerks at the local motels. They say you keep renting motel rooms while you're with some blonde woman much younger than me. Cheating husband: All of them must be hallucinating, and coincidentally having the same hallucination. Wife: So just coincidentally all of these people including me are having all these different hallucinations that all seem to give the false idea that you are cheating on me? Cheating husband: Exactly. Wife: How very convenient, that whenever someone reports seeing evidence of your adultery, you always just say that they were hallucinating! | Layman: I saw my deceased mother's ghost today. Materialist scientist: No, you couldn't have seen that. Layman: Why not? Materialist scientist: Because people are just brains, so when the brain dies, you die forever. Layman: So how come I saw my mother's ghost? Materialist scientist: You must have just been hallucinating. Layman: But I had a long conversation with my mother's ghost. And the president of a major university reported that he had many long conversations with his wife's ghost. Materialist scientist: It must have been a simultaneous auditory and visual hallucination. Layman: But I'm a perfectly sane person, not someone who hallucinates. And very many other people have reported seeing the same thing I saw -- a ghost of their relative. Materialist scientist: All those people must have also been hallucinating. Layman: There are many cases in which multiple witnesses see the same apparition. Materialist scientist: That must have been a coincidence, in which more than one person hallucinated exactly the same thing. Layman: I talked to my friend. He said that when he almost died in a heart attack, he floated out of his body, and could see his whole body from two meters above. Materialist scientist: That could not have happened, because each person is just a brain, not some soul that can leave the body. Layman: So why did my friend say he saw that? Materialist scientist: He must have just been hallucinating. Layman: But many other people also report leaving their bodies in out-of-body experiences. And sometimes they see things they would never have seen if they stayed in their bodies, with the observations verified by others. Materialist scientist: All of them must be hallucinating, and coincidentally having the same hallucination. Layman: So just coincidentally all of these people including me are having all these different hallucinations that all seem to give the false idea that we are souls that can survive death and leave our bodies? Materialist scientist: Exactly. Layman: How very convenient, that whenever someone reports seeing something that discredits your materialist beliefs, you always just say that they were hallucinating! |
