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Can you have a reasonable conversation with someone who seriously uses

terms like spirit and God? I appreciate the metaphorical purposes behind some religious

stories, however, I have noticed that there is a growing movement among young conservatives away from

reasoning towards Christianity.

This appears to me to be a reactionary movement against the woke communism on the left.

Former atheists such as Mike Surnovich, James, Lindsay, and even Jordan Peterson come to mind.

After reading about philosophy and empiricism, I find it hard to take people seriously

when they use mysticism as a substitute for reason and evidence. Well that is a very big and deep question.

There are depths to the human experience that I won't say that they define reason, but reason is one method of knowing. Now I'm not a mystic and I hold reason is the highest value so you know I'm not

slipping into the supernatural murky end of the spectrum, but I just want to sort of explain this is what I worked on

over the course of my therapy I was in therapy for gosh I mean I did a couple

of hours at three hours of therapy a week for almost two years and then I spend another six to eight hours journaling and working on this and

whoa I mean it was a wild ride and I'll just tell you about my personal journey

this is not a philosophical argument this is a sort of experiential thing and then I'll sort of put the argument at the end.

So the experiential thing was that I had been studying for philosophy for 20 years and I knew it fairly well and I wasn't living it. I had it a theory, I had a debate,

I had it as knowledge, I did not have it as lived practice and what happened was I stopped sleeping I stopped

sleeping and I didn't know why and I ended up going to therapy because I

and I had tried therapy before but it you know was I, I just didn't connect and didn't really work or anything like that.

So I didn't know why. And when I went to therapy, my dreams went nuts.

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