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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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JRP
@JRPSD
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@Aella_Girl
“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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Cryptopheresis
@cryptopheresis
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@Aella_Girl
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.
Ben S
@SchwynBen
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@Aella_Girl
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.
Ace
@Acelaotzen
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@Aella_Girl
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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Dan Dennis
@danbdennis
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@Aella_Girl
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?