But I have, too, dear friend, and I don't think anyone should be casting aspersions on anyone else's experiences. No one KNOWS for sure that what the other person has said happened unless they were also actually there. My admonition, of sorts, was aimed at whoever needs to try on the shoe. For those it doesn't fit, they should just move on. "Sides" don't need to be chosen all the time.
But I have, too, dear friend, and I don’t think anyone should be casting aspersions on anyone else’s experiences. No one KNOWS for sure that what the other person has said happened unless they were also actually there. My admonition, of sorts, was aimed at whoever needs to try on the shoe. For those it doesn’t fit, they should just move on. “Sides” don’t need to be chosen all the time.
INDEED.
In my professional training, we had a LOT of emphasis on NOT discounting someone else’s EXPERIENCE.
We could probe dimensions of it.
We could explore descriptions of it.
And certainly with psychotic schizophrenics we had to treat it with some care . . .
However, A PERSON’S EXPERIENCE is more or less ALL THEY HAVE, ALL THEY ARE.
Those foreign to said experiences are
AT LEAST SERIOUSLY IGNORANT about said experience
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY *THINK* THEY KNOW.
We run into this all the time on the UFO threads. All kinds of arrogant ignorant naysayers ASSUME they know more than the person who HAD THE EXPERIENCE.
What idiots!
So let’s try not to be caught up in the “sides” thing. I could try that.