Well, the suggestion of temporal lobe epilepsy was just an example - since you insist on being coy about the symptoms of the event, I can't be any more specific. However, if you heard voices, or saw visions, that would be consistent with TLE.
Of course, whether you're having a TLE event right now, or five minutes ago is fairly irrelevant. You haven't made any life-changing decisions based on it. But you claim that there was an event of some kind that led you to conclude your religious beliefs were correct.
All I've been saying is that your conclusion is irrational. You very clearly haven't put in the effort to validate it. You just went with your cultural bias and leaped to a comfortable conclusion. Irrational.
Now, of course, you can take refuge in the same defense so many other religious people do and insist that there are paths to knowledge that don't follow rational principles. That's fine so far as it goes, but it's definitely irrational.
You don't need a science journal to tell you what to do every minute of every day. That's kind of the point. Science is a method, not a dogma. In the last several centuries we've worked hard to devise this method that avoids jumping to unwarranted conclusions. As a result, we've seen that many of our "natural" assumptions are simply wrong. The sun and moon aren't lights moving across the sky - one is a giant nuclear fireball orders of magnitude bigger than the whole world, the other is a lifeless hunk of rock that reflects the sun's light. The Earth isn't flat, it's a sphere. People with epilepsy aren't possessed by demons, they've got abnormal (but entirely natural) electrical activity in their brains.
This method we've developed is incredibly effective. When you don't follow it, you're much more likely to make erroneous judgements than when you do.
Judgements are important. Scientists make them constantly. But it's critical that you verify them. If you can't verify them, then you have to treat them as untrustworthy.
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RE: Wow. That's pretty contrived.
Well, the suggestion of temporal lobe epilepsy was just an example - since you insist on being coy about the symptoms of the event, I can't be any more specific. However, if you heard voices, or saw visions, that would be consistent with TLE.
Of course, whether you're having a TLE event right now, or five minutes ago is fairly irrelevant. You haven't made any life-changing decisions based on it. But you claim that there was an event of some kind that led you to conclude your religious beliefs were correct.
All I've been saying is that your conclusion is irrational. You very clearly haven't put in the effort to validate it. You just went with your cultural bias and leaped to a comfortable conclusion. Irrational.
Now, of course, you can take refuge in the same defense so many other religious people do and insist that there are paths to knowledge that don't follow rational principles. That's fine so far as it goes, but it's definitely irrational.
You don't need a science journal to tell you what to do every minute of every day. That's kind of the point. Science is a method, not a dogma. In the last several centuries we've worked hard to devise this method that avoids jumping to unwarranted conclusions. As a result, we've seen that many of our "natural" assumptions are simply wrong. The sun and moon aren't lights moving across the sky - one is a giant nuclear fireball orders of magnitude bigger than the whole world, the other is a lifeless hunk of rock that reflects the sun's light. The Earth isn't flat, it's a sphere. People with epilepsy aren't possessed by demons, they've got abnormal (but entirely natural) electrical activity in their brains.
This method we've developed is incredibly effective. When you don't follow it, you're much more likely to make erroneous judgements than when you do.
Judgements are important. Scientists make them constantly. But it's critical that you verify them. If you can't verify them, then you have to treat them as untrustworthy.
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