RE: Shift of truth
December 13, 2013 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2013 at 10:39 am by feeling.)
(December 13, 2013 at 10:29 am)Tonus Wrote: I think that's the effect of having an epiphany. Is it that this woman started reading the Bible and thought okay, this makes sense to me? Or was there a moment when she experienced a moment of clarity, or understanding, or 'the hand of GOD' or some other transcendent feeling? Lots of people claim to experience the latter, and it can mark a huge shift in how they perceive the world. When you think about it, something like the half-life of uranium... why did she accept that it was 4.5 billion years before? She read it or heard it, most likely, and accepted it as it had no particular impact on her life. To believe that now could impact her new reality, and so when she reads or hears that it's really 5,000 it is more meaningful. To her it helps to confirm her new reality. It's not just a random factoid, it becomes an underpinning of her belief system.
She was convinced of it step by step through reading and connecting those small events in her life to religion she called them "signs". I don't think it happened in one day. But of course feelings played big role as well. She also believed in evolution her whole life but threw it out of the window as well.
