LIVED EXPERIENCE AND GOD AND YOUR RIGHT TO DEFINE YOU
Today we talk about lived experience. This is the concept of standpoint epistemology.
With lived experience it is held that,
-Natural justice
-Compassion
-Empathy
-The evidence given by others about you
counts for very little or even nothing.
Only you gets to decide if what somebody says to you or does to you is abuse. So you are likely to find anybody disagreeing with you to be guilty of hate. The hate may be seen as a hate crime or a crime in some other sense.
Now nobody can convey exactly who they are to another. Even someone looking into your thoughts for a day still does not know much. Those who say they know you are exaggerating. Society cannot function without pretending we know others well.
Thus standpoint epistemology is valid. It is of extreme importance to the self-aware atheist. Lived experience can develop your atheism and your right to own only you.
See what happens when I paste the above and bring God into it. Now we are talking about justice as God has supposedly set it up and his compassion and his empathy. And his assessment or judgement of you.
With lived experience it is held that,
-Natural justice
-Compassion
-Empathy
-The evidence given by God about you
counts for very little or even nothing.
Only you gets to decide if what God says to you or does to you is abuse. So you are likely to find his disagreeing with you to be hate. The hate may be seen as a hate crime or a crime in some other sense.
Even if you have concerns about standpoint epistemology, it is definitely valid when it comes to those who speak for a God and who think he has authorised them. Throw the Bible out
Should we consider this to be advocating the experiential fallacy? Well some say we are no better than those who say that teachers should not mention Mount Everest in class unless they have been on the mountain. We could be told we should say nothing about the dead man who climbed it for it is only he who can talk about it?
Hmmm! So unless you are God you cannot talk about God. So unless you are Jesus you cannot talk about his suffering etc.
In fact, with God the fallacy is not a fallacy.
