So many of us think of ourselves as smart and sensible while actually being as locked into the paradigm of the hour as a 13th century religious zealot. Same insanity, different century.
Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy?
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can’t believe that you take dreams seriously. Everybody knows they’re just hallucinations.
Afterlife? Reincarnation? It’s just fantasies.
A creator of the universe? Crazy.
Little people. Spirits. Sure people reported seeing them for thousands of years. But now we know better.
Don’t be crazy.
I know I’m beating this point into the dirt. But seriously.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Semmelweis’s hypothesis is testable. None of what you mentioned is.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Have you tried conducting the relevant experiments? That’s how we test such things.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
Give us your experimental designs to verify or falsify all the things you listed:
I personally believe none of it but show me how it can be proven using the scientific method.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ok.
Environments suggesting an afterlife may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.
Interviews with children who recall past lives suggests reincarnation.
Something fitting description of a “creator of the universe” may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.
Little people. Hmm. You got me there. But the literature is filled with reports. I hear that frequent fasting is good.
Spirits. I’d advise hallucinogens.
And of course, these methods unavoidably esoteric and depthy.