when someone presents you with their own person experience of something ...
how can someone turn around and say ... no you havent
or how can someone say it isnt true when others have had personal experience of it ... studied it ... have information about it
as in the case of this question below
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhGgUV0NFA3Npn3EigL57J2KBgx.?qid=20061210063038AA3GsSE
who are you to say what someone has or has not experienced ?
2006-12-10 01:41:46 · 21 answers · asked by Peace 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam , actually i would not tell you it was not true ... whether i believed it or not
who am i to say what anyone experiences is not true
i personally would believe personal experiences over and above any books
2006-12-10 02:05:04 · update #1
Pangel my life has been filled with odd experiences that I have no explanation for, and that people continually say are false. Really odd, life-altering occurances, yet I only ever reveal them to my closest friends. Anyone else thinks I am crazy when I am not.
I think that some people experience things because they are more open, both in spirit and in mind. That allows other "forces" access. We see these things for what they are, although we may not always acknowledge it at the time.
The skeptics, in my opinion, rarely if ever get to experience spiritual or supernatural occurances because they aren't open to receiving them. Their hearts and minds are blocked, full of cynicism......this leaves them unable to believe and to see. They call others liars because they have hardened themselves to the possibility of outside forces influencing us and miracles happening in the world.
2006-12-10 01:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a balance between trust and faith in someone's words and fabrication
Faith is belief without the need for proof. Fabrication is expecting others to believe your version of events without sufficient proof.
If something is unprovable it is almost by definition unbelievable.
It would be gullible and naive to believe everything you hear, and a heathly degree of cynicism is a good balance. We all have different experiences and so the likelihood of requiring proof for certain events if different.
In English Law its called The Balance of Probability. On balance having weighed the evidence do I believe?...and I am sorry to say that I don't believe in past lives. Think of how many BILLIONS of people have lived in the entire history of the planet and how many are alive now, don't you think it would happen a little more often? Or are you just special?
2006-12-10 02:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by Finlay S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because I know the nature of human beings. People embellish the truth all of the time. Some people look so hard to support their belief system that they will fool themselves in believing that something magical happened.
An example:
Why do you suppose Jesus keeps on showing himself as a reflection in a window, or some other weird visage.. Most people would not even think it looks like Jesus unless they so desperately want it to be Jesus that their imagination plays tricks on them.
This is why I do not believe people when it comes to metaphysical experiences. That and all of the supposedly true ghost stories I have heard which are just plain crazy.
2006-12-10 01:50:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very good point.
Unfortunately, people have a tendency to dispute the experiences of others based on their own experiences/beliefs/etc...
It's a very closed-minded, hateful way to treat others, and I'm sorry that this young lady and others have had this experience.
It seems to be prevalent, especially in the Religion & Spirituality section, that people use their bible/doctrines to beat people up with words and to insult others... and then they wonder why people don't want to convert to their beliefs.
However, there are plenty of people who will be supportive and attempt to answer with kindness and respect. Those are the ones to focus on and honor. They make the world a nicer place to be :)
2006-12-10 01:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kallan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is kind of funny that you bring this up. On one hand you are absolutely correct. We could not possibly know what someone has experienced. On the other hand we Christians take this junk form non believers every day and in huge amounts, so I think it may be rubbing off. It is common.
It is still not right for us Christians to act like non believers. We will try to do better.
2006-12-10 01:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People assume since *I* didnt experience it then it didnt happen, anothers experience is insignificant to thier own because theyre too self - centered and too self - absorbed to care about what the other person has experienced or been through, i know this because i share my experiences with others and get shot down by people that live in thier own little universe.
2006-12-10 01:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by badferret 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course when you know the truth you can identify that which is not true.
You are still not entitled to deny what someone else has experienced. Many people have many unusual or exceptional experiences and they are not to be denied and may very well be unexplainable.
Still, that will not alter the truth.
Likely no one can explain everything but we live by what we know and if we know the truth that cannot be compromised else it is not the truth.
If someone does not know the truth then no doubt they will follow many weird and wonderful things and flounder in a state of error.
Error also can be very sure of itself and can refuse truth against all evidence.
So what is the remedy?
Only God can overcome the refusal of truth against all evidence. This of course is very humiliating to us all, but let God be true and every man a liar.
To those who honestly and with all their heart seek God then He promises to be found of them.
But none of us will naturally seek God. It is God who calls and seeks us and it is possible to refuse Him. Many are called but few are chosen,
How sad that man's pride refuses the all loving, all wise, all good God.
But to those who have found, or who have been found of God, they know. And God makes such knowledge sure, no matter how sure those in error, who do not know God, claim to be.
2006-12-10 03:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by Jens Q 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think there are cases where you can say they are wrong, not in their experience but in their conclusion. You can't deny the experience that someone may have seen a picture of someone with the same looks as they had, and a similar birthmark, but on the bases of the Bible teaching from God you can say that it was not that person in a previous life, because the Bible definately does not accept reincarnation.
2006-12-10 01:52:18 · answer #8 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
firstly a personal experience is very difficult to convey in words and the other person having no concept of the experience cannot grasp it,and so most tend to knock the experience, this is most true of a spiritual experience.
2006-12-10 01:46:19 · answer #9 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no - i clone my contacts now and again I open each and each and every new one in a tab, then sign up as my different self and refresh all tabs and upload any that are lacking more advantageous major - i try this with my blocks too I have my next in line backup that i take care of my contacts in so its almost continuously correct if some thing occurs to this one
2016-11-30 09:36:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋