If you are talking about the difference between Newtonian mechanics and the story of Adam and Eve, you're talking about entirely different types of "truth". @jordanbpeterson
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I'm denying that the latter is true at all.
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Ah. OK. You're wrong, but never mind.
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So postmodernists keep telling me.
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Post modernism is just wrong and has no foundation. Also they claim it's true in the former scientific sense rather than the theological sense.
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It has quite a lot in common with religion. I use it to study Christian narratives.https://www.academia.edu/30784957/_Challendge_to_Your_Selves_no_Sovraigntie_Aemilia_Lanyer_Saint_Monica_Christian_Feminine_Virtue_and_its_Challenge_to_the_Patriarchal_Symbolic_Order …
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I'd agree post modernism is a religion, but unlike other religions, it has no foundation over time.
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But it calls on the same concepts and sometimes specifically cites them. See, for example, Kristeva's symbolic and semiotic and Augustine's Sapientia and Scientia or Irigaray's use of the Double Syntax to regain prelapsarian knowledge.
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This may seem like a weird question, but have you ever experimented with psychedelics? And I mean as tool for mind expansion, not a party drug?
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No. What would it help?
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One experience done in the traditional way (in silent darkness) will show you incredible vistas in your mind that your rational self will struggle with. It opens doors that never quite close again, and shakes the idea that we have things figured out.
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Ohh. I do not need this, thank you. My rational self was hard won. I have temporal lobe epilepsy which caused intense spiritual experiences and made me hyper-religious & then deeply into mystical woo. I don't think we have things figured out. I just think we should try.
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Ahh, then yeah, probably not for you. Was just curious.
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