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novapsycheI believe there is something behind the veil. Does that make me crazy?
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zenrabbit (probably) thinks I'm crazy. There are things I believe while sober that I should (probably) only believe when I'm intoxicated.
I'll put things this way: I don't believe in using Ouija boards (primarily because I don't believe in disembodied spirits), but let me use it as a metaphor. You use a Ouija board, which is simply a board with symbols and a planchette. A user might "receive signals from beyond," but what are those signals? Merely a perception of movement toward symbols that are recognizable by the brain (alphabetic letters, "yes/no"). The tugging toward the symbols isn't directly understandable by the brain, but it is that tugging that is the true communication.
I pray/hold conversations with God often. I receive signals. I interpret these signals--usually synchronous events--and much like a Ouija planchette my mind will come up with an answer in English. This interpretation is often serendipitous; it's nothing I'm constructing by using syntactical rules. The meaning of the symbol is revealed simultaneously with the symbol itself.
I see the world as a metaphor. The whole of existence is a metaphor. There is something behind the veil, and the veil is permeable.
zenrabbit (probably) thinks I'm crazy. There are things I believe while sober that I should (probably) only believe when I'm intoxicated.I'll put things this way: I don't believe in using Ouija boards (primarily because I don't believe in disembodied spirits), but let me use it as a metaphor. You use a Ouija board, which is simply a board with symbols and a planchette. A user might "receive signals from beyond," but what are those signals? Merely a perception of movement toward symbols that are recognizable by the brain (alphabetic letters, "yes/no"). The tugging toward the symbols isn't directly understandable by the brain, but it is that tugging that is the true communication.
I pray/hold conversations with God often. I receive signals. I interpret these signals--usually synchronous events--and much like a Ouija planchette my mind will come up with an answer in English. This interpretation is often serendipitous; it's nothing I'm constructing by using syntactical rules. The meaning of the symbol is revealed simultaneously with the symbol itself.
I see the world as a metaphor. The whole of existence is a metaphor. There is something behind the veil, and the veil is permeable.
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