@Gnosomai Emauton said
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@Avshalom Binyamin said
"Person A could accept the claim, because being told something trivial is sufficient evidence for them.
Person B could choose to not accept (nor reject), until they saw a timestamped video.
Person C could reject the claim, because they had breakfast with me and saw me eating toast."
The scientific method in action. Each scientist can only work with the data at hir disposal. From that, s/he proposes a theory of reality. That theory is then subject to peer review. Lather, rinse, repeat."
Exactly. And this is why organizations such as The Temple and the A.'.A.'. have been working since the time of the Fama Fraternitatis (and all the way back to the Jewish Priesthood, really--and beyond) to impose proper Scientific Method upon what might be called "Religious" experience. There is some dispute among adherents as to whether such things as reincarnation, spirits, "other planes of reality," UFO's, and so forth exist...but then again there is plenty of dispute in all kinds of circles about what existence is in the first place.
The best that can be done is to work together as much as possible to assist in the positive evolution of the human race, and to solve the vast biological and social problems facing us today. It really does no one any good to get hung up on the petty details of purely abstract speculation. One has to work with what they have and know.