RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
January 5, 2022 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2022 at 2:29 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 4, 2022 at 10:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: For example, people have different unmediated experiences. While most are common and trivial, on rare occasions some people do have numinous experience that are realer-than-real. As someone who has had enough such mystical experiences that I cannot deny them, I still recognize that they are properly basic to me alone.
This is interesting to me.
How does one go about differentiating between a 'real' numinous experience that are realer-than-real, mystical experience, and one that is caused by a real, but transitory alteration in mental state, that just seems like a 'real' numinous and mystical experience, but was completely natural?
I am sure that you believe, that some percentage of people, who sincerely claim they had a real numinous and mystical experience, were actually misinterpreting an altered mental brain state.
I am sure the vast majority of schizophrenics, who claim to have mystical experiences, sincerely believe they are real.
What about all the people that believe in different gods than you do, who sincerely claim to have had a 'real' numinous experience that are realer-than-real, and a mystical experience with their god? Are they all mistaking?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
