Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

[William T Goodall]

On 10 Mar 2008, at 04:45, Warren Ockrassa wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
>
>> On 5 Mar 2008 at 12:23, William T Goodall wrote:
>>
>>>> Others might argue that "the doors of perception were
>>>> cleansed", letting one see another level of reality that
>>>> was always there.
>>>
>>> Hallucinations are just the brain running wonky, not 'another level
>>> of
>>> reality'.
>>
>> Prove you're not hallucinating your life, and you're not just a brain
>> in a jar :) (The number of contradictions in this world? Jar is a
>> shitload simpler)
>
> He doesn't have to, Andrew. It's those who claim their experiences --
> which run contrary to observable, verifiable and apparently valid
> reality -- that must prove *their* livers are not the illusion.
>
> As to brain in a jar: Occam would have something to say to you. The
> more parsimonious explanation is that the reality we appear to
> experience is valid, rather than the idea that this reality is an
> illusion covering a larger, more bizarre reality. That's just not
> parsimonious. Impossible? no. Unlikely? extremely.
>
> What "contradictions", by the way, can you enumerate which make it "a
> shitload simpler" to believe we're brains in a jar?

I suspect Andrew perceives the world as containing contradictions  
because his beliefs are at odds with reality.

Walter Mitty Maru

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