How much of the whole fetishizing over ultimate truth in cults and other forms comes down to nothing more than "I had an experience in this particular way, so it must be the True Way(tm)"?
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Replying to @Triquetrea
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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Replying to @simpolism @Triquetrea
I am interested in your experience with psychedelics, if you would be kind enough to share
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Replying to @danlistensto @Triquetrea
The key insight was that sensory experience is fallable to an extent and that even ontological truth is determined by collective agreement re: sensory phenomena. The physicist I think didn't believe in that layer of collective agreement, and saw truth as a binary "is or is not".
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hole in one! something analogous to that is the first thing I ever learned from psilocybe
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