cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agoFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squarecameron_vale@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoNo actually, that really is the logical conclusion. If I told people that I couldn’t see the sun in the sky, they’d tell me to see a doctor.
minus-squarealvaro@social.graves.cllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months ago@cameron_vale@lemm.ee no, you ask for proof, that is what we do.
minus-squarecameron_vale@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoI think we’d just jump right to the medication actually. But assuming that they saw little people and we don’t. (And there are methods for performing that experiment (meditation, hallucinogens, fasting…)). What do you suppose is going on there? A culture-wide shift in research methods?
No actually, that really is the logical conclusion.
If I told people that I couldn’t see the sun in the sky, they’d tell me to see a doctor.
@cameron_vale@lemm.ee no, you ask for proof, that is what we do.
I think we’d just jump right to the medication actually.
But assuming that they saw little people and we don’t. (And there are methods for performing that experiment (meditation, hallucinogens, fasting…)). What do you suppose is going on there?
A culture-wide shift in research methods?