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by Arjuna144 1264 days ago
Lol.... I am talking on whole other level of philosophy. The prove has been given.

Please give me a chance to explain. I am completely with you, that you are allowed to ask for the prove! BUT: you will have to go through that prove (perform the experiment) to "prove" the correctness of the claim _for yourself_!! Only repeating the experiment will lead to experience. (In mathematics that experience is what i call "the experience of a logical conclusion")

As long as you never did the experiment, you will only believ (althogh you confidence may be high, because so many "prof" and PhD and papers are claiming it is correct and you haven't heard otherwise to diminsh you confidence)

Please allow that point of view to sink in, it is not that easily grasped.

All the very best to you!

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The point is that I can't convince someone who doesn't see violet that there are 7 colors in a rainbow just by telling him there are.

I've experienced some pretty eerie stuff myself but the onus is on me to prove it happened. Fortunately for me there are physical manifestations of the phenomenon but the medical corps either doesn't have the tooling or the research direction to properly study it.

They are just happy giving people some medications. Fortunately for me, I don't need any and can function normally.

That's why appeal to authority is bad (PhDs and MDs are far from knowing much, one should realize, but that goes for your guru, religious figure as well). However I understand what you mean. No one is discarding experience. One might discard the exactitude of the conclusions derived from the experience however. That's the part that needs more proof.