RE: fairy tales and lies
November 15, 2015 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2015 at 3:59 pm by robvalue.)
People can say whatever they want about what they think they experience.
But they shouldn't expect me to take it at all seriously unless they provide me with evidence I can investigate. Evidence "to them" is not credible evidence outside their own brain.
I'm not saying people don't have experiences, of course they do. I'm not saying they don't believe that those experiences involve god, or whatever. I'm sure people do believe that. I just think they are wrong. It's the far simpler and vastly more likely possibility. Everything I hear can be explained easily by psychology. If people think they are capable of correctly remembering and interpreting one-off events which don't mesh with the general experience of reality, they are sorely mistaken.
But they shouldn't expect me to take it at all seriously unless they provide me with evidence I can investigate. Evidence "to them" is not credible evidence outside their own brain.
I'm not saying people don't have experiences, of course they do. I'm not saying they don't believe that those experiences involve god, or whatever. I'm sure people do believe that. I just think they are wrong. It's the far simpler and vastly more likely possibility. Everything I hear can be explained easily by psychology. If people think they are capable of correctly remembering and interpreting one-off events which don't mesh with the general experience of reality, they are sorely mistaken.
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