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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“Lived experience” as justification for anything is bullshit. I hired 6 people to work in a bar and grill kitchen over the summer a few years back. 3 I had to fire for flat out not showing up. They were all black. My “lived experience” is don’t hire black kitchen employees again.
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Undoubtedly true.
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In an existence of multiple realities, you might have just shifted from the one with Divine miracles to the one with Mystical mushrooms. Be mindful of Pleasure Island, they allow deceptive marketing in that one.
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Wow interesting, didn’t know this about you
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Our brains make up stories to convince ourselves of things constantly. It's why we believe we have free will when the truth is our brains make the decision well before we're ever conscious of it.
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There's a social agreement on what projections of your perception & experience are part of socially agreed upon reality. In a religious community experiences of God are part of reality, in a secular community these are experiences within the mind, though experience is the same.
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When you were Christian all your experiences were subconsciously filtered through a Christian understanding of the world, skewing their veracity. Try just being open, now that you presumably have no ideological bent. You can still have equally powerful experiences!
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Interesting. So would you say, for example, you had certain sense experience, and then at the time you interpreted that in a way which resulted in you thinking you had seen a miracle, and now you interpret it differently, so dont think you saw a miracle?
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Can you describe your experience? I also had a crazy spiritual experience and was Christian for my teenage years, then moved on in my 20s.
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