Nemra

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 Overview: The rise and fall of "Weigh Down Workshop," Gwen Shamblin Lara's religious weight-loss regimen.

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults Overview: An examination of the UFO cult through the eyes of its former members and their loved ones; what starts with the disappearance of 20 people from an Oregon town, ends with the largest suicide on U.S. soil.

Trust Me: The False Prophet Overview: A cult expert and her videographer husband embed themselves in a vulnerable FLDS community in Utah, where they discover disturbing evidence about Samuel Bateman, who claims to be the successor to imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs.

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.

Taking a psychedelic while in a foreign country can be very unsettling. After the peak, did you get reactivations as if you were going to trip hard like you would at peak? Gosh, 10 mg is already too much!

One thing that unites them all is their pride in their Armenian, especially Christian, identity. They are mostly very boastful people and generally cultural conformists, with the Armenian Apostolic Church being at the center of gravity. They can get very identitarian, especially the diaspora, as they care more about the actualization of the past Great Armenia fantasy than Armenia's actual borders. Anything that doesn't belong to their Christian dogma is considered a threat to them and are usually labeled as a cult, which is ironic and makes them disregard or disrespect legitimate techniques and practices for spirituality. Their religion is very sacerdotal rather than experiential one, which makes spiritual experience or personal awakening not a thing to be trusted. Without the priests and the church you will never have a connection with God, whatever God means to them. The priests, whom I highly doubt have had an awakening, are considered the protectors of their national identity, and being the first Christian nation creates a sense of historical exceptionalism that feeds into their identity. This all makes them believe that, literally, God's job is to protect Armenia. So, their national identity depends on the church's survival, and the church's survival depends on their national identity. Overall, it is very difficult to be a freethinker living with them, even though they would like to think they are freethinkers.

There are different types of Armenians. It would be interesting to know whether there are Armenians located in Armenia on this forum or even watching Leo's videos. I highly doubt it, although I am one.

The visual patterns had the structure in the image below, however they spanned vertically, like a sine or cosine wave pattern, branching out of the middle of my sight like the feathers of an open wing of a bird, without converging at a single point as it is portrayed in the image below.

I saw glass-like, transparent visual patterns branching out from the middle of my sight with sharp edges at 20 mg. It was beautiful.

I must say that the succinctness of their book titles makes them very alluring to read.

What do you think of the "A Very Short Introduction" book series? In retrospect, do you think they can actually introduce you to the subject? Is it an overall good place to start studying subjects?