On Nov 26, 12:52 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > Pat, dear, I understand the negative connotation of average in American > socialized human beings.
Nevertheless, that is irrelevant to my usage. >To me this is a neutral scientific term. and THAT was how I intended it to be taken. >Tell me, > which special ability do you have that allows you to make quantative > statements on other people's subjective experiences? My point of view, which no one else has. ;-) To be fair, until another's subjective experience is laid out in full, I couldn't, in detail, comment upon it. If you would like to, for example, take the generic experience of 'seeing a ghost'; this is an experience 'most people' do not claim to have had, therefore most people pooh-pooh the concept, as they have no similar experience with which to compare. Personally, I've seen two things that, in my opinion, many would have thought to have been a ghost; however, I don't believe what I saw WAS, in fact, a ghost, as I know ALL the facts surrounding those experiences including the fact that both were 'upon awakening' and what was seen was very similar to the last thing about which I was dreaming. In both cases, I believe there was an overlapping of dream-to-waking phenomenon that made me think, for a moment, "wait, that looks like a ghost". But, after it faded, and I was able to put the dream-related information together with what my eyes saw, I 'thought differently' about what I'd seen. That's not to say I don't believe that people can see ghosts, but, as of yet, although I have two experiences that would have convinced many, I think there is a simpler explanation. So you see, I even put my OWN experiences to a very stringent tests and, only when I can find no other plausible reason, then, and only then, do I consider that the experience was rare indeed. Generalisations ARE just that, generalisations. They don't address specific scenarios. If you want to talk specifics, you'll have to site an example and give me ALL the information regarding it. Only then do I stand a chance at answering any questions about it. >What do you think makes > your experiences more special? I've had them and I know the full details OF them. "Most people", when hearing the details, would think I'm either a liar or a lunatic...but they weren't there and would think otherwise had they been. > > Am 26.11.2010 13:18 schrieb "Pat" <[email protected]>: > > On Nov 25, 5:54 pm, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:> Pat, Pat, Pat... > writing in his most ... > > Most of us ARE average..by definition. That's not to be taken > personally, but to be understood as a matter of fact as the numbers > go. When I said 'us' in that statement, I intended 'The Human > Population of the Planet'. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Pat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Nov 25,... > > ... > > > read more »- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
