Do you know a 100% surefire way to experience lucid dreams? that everyone will have the same experience? Well, it has been scientifically demonstrated that many can do this. What if it has elements of skill and attitude involved? What if not everyone can? Does this mean it is not real? No. What if you have to want to? What if different individuals require different amounts of effort? or the right coach.
Experiments of things scientific consensus consider real do not have 100 percent results. There are always anomolies or at least many things with in testing are still considered real.
Or, no one can become a great basketball player by training because not everyone can.
Or, no one can become capable of Eureka moments through long mathematical study, since not everyone can.
Somehow you conclude that because not everyone can do something, then empirical approachs are closed to us(???) No, they would be closed to some. Or seemingly closed, since attitudes and effort and interest and so on would be hard to measure.
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You:
So,you are arguing that some things that are useful are worthless?
You can’t even know if the belief is true. You can’t know if their experiences would also lead to your belief. You can’t know if their beliefs are based on true and accurately interpreted experiences and also lead to positve changes and actions (such as maintaing their practices or whatever). As an agnostic, and given the problem of other minds, you cannot know these things.
So, you cannot know if they are worthless or not. And you also cannot know if one day they can be confirmed or falsified. Who knows what science will one day be able to demonstrate