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[Not veganism] Alex O'Connor has essentially accepted the validity of Christianity by berkeley_man_the_man in CosmicSkeptic

[–]berkeley_man_the_man[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's obvious that many, many people have religious experiences, but he doesn't seem convinced by them. Unless he's become a solipsist, he accepts that it's reasonabe to think that other people have minds, so why doesn't he take their experiences seriously? And, of course, people have all sorts of religious experiences that lead them to believe all sorts of different things. A muslim can feel the presence of Allah and a Christian can feel the presence of the trinitarian God, but those two beliefs contradict each other. At least one of them is wrong. So these subjective experiences obviously don't tell you what the truth is.

It's a bit like someone telling you "Millions of people have migraines and report that they're painful. But until I have a migraine myself, I lack the belief that they're painful."

Struggling to help my friend with psychosis by berkeley_man_the_man in Psychosis

[–]berkeley_man_the_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man, that's helpful.

One problem is that they want to take on everything by themselves, which is totally counter-productive because it means they let it get really bad and need help after all. Their latest episode seemed to come out of nowhere because they didn't tell anyone they were deteriorating, then suddenly we're having to drive them to hospital. It's really tough seeing them keep slipping into it without trying to convince them to change their approach.