presoak@lazysoci.al to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-210 days agoAn authoritative story is more substantial than the evidence of my own senses.message-squaremessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareAn authoritative story is more substantial than the evidence of my own senses.presoak@lazysoci.al to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-210 days agomessage-square26linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoAnd, yet, the “authoritative story” is reaching you through your senses. In court hear-say is inadmissible, for many reasons. What causes you to trust the channels that the story reaches you through more than the direct channels of your own perception? Was that trust earned, or simply granted?
minus-squarepresoak@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoTemptation. That’s the word I’d use. I am tempted, seduced, into a dream. A luscious invitation that I fall for.
And, yet, the “authoritative story” is reaching you through your senses. In court hear-say is inadmissible, for many reasons.
What causes you to trust the channels that the story reaches you through more than the direct channels of your own perception?
Was that trust earned, or simply granted?
Temptation. That’s the word I’d use. I am tempted, seduced, into a dream. A luscious invitation that I fall for.