RE: Nevermind
March 19, 2012 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2012 at 9:18 pm by Cyberman.)
This is why I am not going to try to come up with explanations for any of this stuff, Hunter. Not that I think you're lying, necessarily, but it's a fruitless exercise for at least two reasons.
a - A personal experience is by definition subjective. Anyone else can only examine the facts as you present them; however, you may not be in possession of all the facts, or the facts as you understand them may not be what you think they are. It may even be that your recollection of events has been altered by the interpretation you've since ascribed to them. Again, I'm not saying you're a liar, this is not a personal attack.
b - Since this is clearly a profound and deeply-held experience for you, particularly in view of the significance you attach to it, much of what anyone may be able to offer explanations for are likely to be rationalised away. You've already shown this by your dismissal of mental illness.
If it makes you feel special or whatever, fine, go for it. Just understand that, while your experience - whatever the actual truth of it, if any - may be convincing to you, it doesn't automatically follow that anyone else must be convinced by it.
And I wrote all that without any swearing, mocking or anger. Go me.
a - A personal experience is by definition subjective. Anyone else can only examine the facts as you present them; however, you may not be in possession of all the facts, or the facts as you understand them may not be what you think they are. It may even be that your recollection of events has been altered by the interpretation you've since ascribed to them. Again, I'm not saying you're a liar, this is not a personal attack.
b - Since this is clearly a profound and deeply-held experience for you, particularly in view of the significance you attach to it, much of what anyone may be able to offer explanations for are likely to be rationalised away. You've already shown this by your dismissal of mental illness.
If it makes you feel special or whatever, fine, go for it. Just understand that, while your experience - whatever the actual truth of it, if any - may be convincing to you, it doesn't automatically follow that anyone else must be convinced by it.
And I wrote all that without any swearing, mocking or anger. Go me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
