(September 1, 2021 at 11:37 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: No. I was not suggesting that epilesy was a means by which any god communes. I am saying that one experience can be authentic and another inauthentic depending on the chain of events that brought* it into being. By way of analogy, the perfect forgery of a Vermeer painting can never be an authentic Vermeer.
*Interesting how it seems so intuitive to use teleological language!
Authentic Vermeer paintings exist, though, because Vermeer, a human being who existed, was also a painter.
