Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ...
by hosh on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:01PM
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Yeah, what you're describing with the injury is a skill I'd call empathic absorption. A rib injury is fairly dramatic and eye-opening. I know someone who did something similar with scarlet fever.
It's good to see this surface up here, though it's the kind of stuff I discuss in other communities.
Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ...
by User23 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:57PM
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I wrote a bunch of stuff, but then I deleted it and decided to just copy someone better at wording than me:
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
I view materialism much like Newtonian physics. It's a fine approximation for the situations you'll face almost all the time. I just choose not to wear it like a set of blinders, because I don't want to deny the evidence of my senses when they don't fit it.
Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ...
by paulryanrogers on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:04PM
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Is this phenomenon reproduceable? Can it be experimentally verified?
I’ve also experienced telepathy, seen a ghost (with multiple corroborating witnesses) and witnessed poltergeist activity. The last of those I can kind of doubt though. The mirror falling off the wall could maybe have been some kind of microquake.