I don’t see how one could ever prove to someone else what it is that he/she has experienced.
Carl Jung said that truth is based on the concert of many voices but I don’t necessarily even agree with that. Look at Nazi Germany and propaganda.
All one could do is to share that personal experience.
The only thing, to me perhaps, which is not proof so much but closer to proof is the way in which one lives one’s life according to or as a result of that experience. If another sees that, they may at least accept the other’s experience as being valid.
No, the inability to prove your experience doesn’t make it invalid. The experience is valid “to you”. I don’t think that there is absolute truth but there is subjective truth. We have to remember this when one tells us of their experience. Of course, some things are simply absurd, like someone telling us that they looked into the night sky and saw a witch flying on a broom. lol
True. There was a time when I thought that reincarnation might have been a possibility based on the cycles of nature but that alone doesn’t cut it.
But still, R may still be a possibility.
I don’t follow this. Can you explain what you mean here?
… a logical … rational … hypothesis … been around in one form or another for a long time. Either all is in the grey matter between our ears or this same gray matter has a conduit … with very sophisticated security clearances … to the “cloud”.
Therein lies the stumbling block for most. To get past this and be “brutally honest” (HA, those two words much maligned by many) requires one to step up to the edge of the abyss and look in, something as yet, I have not had the courage to do. So, I am riddled with false impressions and vivid allusions of who I am, incapable of the lofty ability to see unadulterated reason, even though I will proclaim I can.
This is a PG site so no stroking of any kind is allowed…sorry…no suggestions in that regard, but on another front, you need more challenges, mental, emotional, spiritual but you are way too comfortable staying in the safety of a small village when your desires to push yourself farther come from a big city. In other words, stop hiding and playing it safe where you are…and/or you could finally learn Chinese and get into all kinds of trouble with that newly acquired superpower.
Wendy … while reflecting on EC_DC’s comment … "We are programmed to live" … my mind was looking for the words to articulate the distinction between “to live” and “to exist”.
Background
Just read some comments authored by eaglerising … paraphrasing … and perhaps not accurately … "thoughts are fragmented and they don’t know each other exists"
While eaglerising’s comments were placed in the context of the human species I prefer the context of “ALL” … some people believe plants respond to music … dengarden.com/gardening/the-eff … ant-growth
Back to eaglerising’s comments … in the context of human thought for the moment.
Fragmented thoughts … thoughts that don’t know each other exist … form clusters when expressed by one human being and encountered by another independent human being … when the thought cluster reaches critical mass it is manifested in our physical reality.
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no need to forget it … the only comment that ‘stuck’ was “we are programmed to live” … the others passed too quickly to notice.
We are here to live - to me that is the meaning of life - what we choose to do to give ourselves purpose can be difficult.
for me … rightly or wrongly … we do not have the opportunity to give ourselves purpose … we all have purpose … individual and unique … our only choice is to discover it … or not.
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From time to time I found some of your comments uplifting … the remainder “simply wind” and these days it takes a pretty strong wind to make me stumble.
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For me … the distinction is … live life for the “other” … embrace selflessness rather than simply tolerate it.
