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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Because in a hospital there are huge bright overhead lights that might help save your life? And you all have noticed that a really focused bright light Will show up through even shut eyes.
I do not believe this was much of a phenomenon in the days of lanterns & candles........
AnneWimsey
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Sep 2, 2023
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Why would they be ? We all have the same brains. Silly question.
Fernapple
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Sep 2, 2023
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I was thinking the same thing. What is he getting at here? Seems to me the author is playing it fast and loose with the term 'universal'. I mean, what percent of people globally are delusionally psychotic, and then only 18% of them had religious themed delusions? That's universal?
Furthermore, the categories are pretty broad. To me that's like saying I asked people from all over the world to pick a letter. 18% of people picked a letter A-E, 21% picked a letter F-J, 23% picked a letter K-O, 16% picked a letter P-T, and 20% picked a letter U-Y. I wonder why these groups of letters were picked so universally with no appreciable cultural differences.
I suppose that's why they didn't even posit a conclusion? More of a Fox News style plant a seed and walk away for plausible deniability. "What? Me? I didn't say that the logical conclusion is that God must exist. I'm just asking questions."
@ChestRockfield Exactly
@skado's paraphrasing, "Why is this not culture-specific"?
Why should a broadly-based categorisation of psychotic aberrancy be culture-specific?
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