Nemra

I am generally afraid of losing stability in waking life because it can be taken away from me and my life depends on it. However, my human stability is a limitation. In nightly dreams, the limitations are relatively broken.

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Dreams at night don't happen in your brain when you're sleeping. When you wake up from your sleep, you understand that what you experienced passed away. That's why you call it a dream. From your nightly dream's perspective, your waking life is a dream, because it passes away when you sleep. So, neither is more real than the other. If your waking life appears to be more stable, it doesn't mean it's more real.

Labeling something as a cult when it challenges your own beliefs.

Often laughing at others' jokes when it doesn't make sense to you.

Instant disown.

Using gendered pronouns for God. Thinking that God punishes.

Expecting that God listens to your prayers.

Expecting a visitor when a fork falls on the ground. Expecting bad things to happen when you spill the salt.

He has mastered his craft.

Share your top books on epistemology that you think are foundational.

The way people tie their shoelaces.

Drinking an alcoholic beverage for celebration.

Expecting older people to be intelligent.

Cross necklaces!

Non-related Muslim men and women not sitting beside each other.

Attending church. Religious ceremonies.

Christians doing a cross before throwing the bread in the trash.

The way people hold their toilet paper.

The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.

Prophet's Prey.

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults.

Trust Me: The False Prophet. This one was mentioned in the blog post.

Would people of faith, particularly fundamentalists, prioritize understanding their own epistemological processes and take epistemic responsibility instead of being blindly faithful before their suffering gets too much? I don't think so.

Gosh, I don't want to imagine. 5 mg lasted me about a day, and still then I would have reactivations for a few days. I'm glad you're ok.