I think a lot of belief is based on experience. I got into an ontological discussion once with a theoretical physicist.
We spent a few hours working backward and eventually found that my experiences (using psychedelics) provided me with a basis for belief that diverged from his.
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Yeah! Are they as boring as mine?
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It's a half-joke.
I have just never had any kind of earth-shattering experiences. If anything, the only deep, profound thing I discovered is that I am antifragile to weirdness.
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Oh, had that too. I think it's mostly a dose-response thing, actually. Never had any overwhelming amount of any psychedelic. Was always lucid.
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I can't recall how much it was with the shrooms, but I've had far trippier experiences with hash.
At one point, I convinced myself I was playing a game of League of Legends, in my head. That was weird. I knew it wasn't really happening, but the experience was v. engrossing.
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Lastly though, I did enough weird meditation and magic in my teens that I was already pretty used to trippy experiences by the time I tried any psychedelics.
I'd already internalized that stuff as "just another thing your consciousness can do", so...
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I was so far down the Left-Hand Path stuff at some point, I more or less entirely detonated my life - then found I didn't want to continue.
Still living with the repercussions of that. Also don't really do drugs anymore. Meditate very differently. Don't do magic, either.