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Ah, sure. A lot of variation based on circumstance etc. is perfectly reasonable. I imagine nearly everyone can agree on that. For me, it’s good to be married to my wife but obviously that specifically is not true for every other human. Or at the very least it can’t be true for my wife who can’t marry herself. 😆 anyway, the point remains that in a certain way “being married to gregorius’ wife is good true for gregorius but not her”

But you go too far if you use the word “humans” in a way that defines us from other things and yet do not think we have a shared nature about which a great many things are true (or false) for all of us.

Certainly many claims under the umbrella of spirituality are either true for all or false for all. It is illogical to hold that there is an omnipotent being for you but not for me. Or that “we are all one being” is true for me but not you. These are universal claims to truth and there’s no way around it.
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Katie 2y ago

Maybe. I’m not at a place where I am willing to say, even conceptually, one religion or spiritual belief is inherently correct and the others are inherently wrong. Quantum is showing that unobserved elements can exist at a probabilistic state.

We make decisions, more often than not, based on probability distributions. And sometimes arg max probability is conflated with correctness or truth or accuracy. When in reality, sampling from a distribution is usually far more accurate.

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e76e7052... 2y ago

Oh sure, I’m not, here, making a claim for any particular universal truth - just defending the idea of such a claim at all!

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Katie 2y ago

Yeah! I didn’t think you were :) but I think there is something to be said for the unknown. And I think there is a case to be made against even the existence of a universal truth in this. In either case, what someone believes spiritually, as there is no known, can’t be deemed as being more or less correct as what someone else believes. So in that sense… they are either all right or all wrong, as opposed to one being right and the rest being wrong.