1/ I don't know how to articulate this...but, I want to try. I was raised religious. I'm agnostic now. Sometimes when I have conversations with people who never had religion, their flippant attitudes and presumption of religious peoples' ignorance makes me defensive.
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Replying to @generativist
This is a really great thread and I'd love to continue unpacking this. Being religious myself, one thing I've come to appreciate is that my "access" is different from that of others, yet we're confident we're talking about the same thing... How does that "experience" get defined?
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Replying to @YnysDyn
Yea. I've tried different kinds of meditation and I catch glimpses of that experience sometimes. You're bigger on the inside?
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Replying to @generativist
That's a good way of putting it. But it's never been a "one with the universe" feeling for me. More like, being known in a way that lets me rethink myself, encourages me to know differently. There's something undeniably "personal" about it.
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Replying to @YnysDyn
Oh yes, that too.
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Also, to channel Putnam a bit — communities structured that way are rare otherwise. School, work, and professional orgs are different.
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