I'm skeptical of extrapolating things from lived experience. I used to be a devout christian, saw miracles, experienced the presence of God. My lived experience was extremely convincing!
But I'm no longer christian, and I realize the human brain can generate incredible things.
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Ofc the lived experience itself is valid. I did experience what I experienced, from the inside, and you can't tell me no, I didn't - saying that is uncompassionate. What you *can* say is that there's a lot of ways to make sense of that experience besides the one you think.
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healing and 'impossible' readings done live in church is one. there's also some highly coincidental things that would require a lot of tweets to explain the background that i was convinced came form god
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Out of curiosity, what do you miss about your former life / belief system, if anything?
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“Lived experience” is just wokespeak for anecdotal evidence. Calling it something new doesn’t make it any more reliable.
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Lived experience is ultimately highly subjective anecdote. However, people have become turned-off to stale, statistically derived received wisdom from credentialed elites. Even if it's useful for making predictions & decisions, it often feels counterintuitive and untrue.
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Lived experiences are your only proof of knowledge for most things. Don’t discount reality just because you didn’t know how it worked back then. Integrate with your modern senses. Learn from those experiences and tell a new mythology.
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Scientists call that anecdotal evidence. It doesn't lead to facts or truths, just an internal, sometimes emotional, mental upvote for the topic at hand. You can only extrapolate based on your own efforts/attitudes - "I felt __ last time and did X, maybe I should Y this time."
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I’m glad to still remind you that you are still saved. You were bought with a price when you believed the gospel. Saying you are not a Christian doesn’t separate you from God. You’ve been sealed with the spirit of promise.
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