presoak@lazysoci.al to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoAn authoritative story is more substantial than the evidence of my own senses.message-squaremessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareAn authoritative story is more substantial than the evidence of my own senses.presoak@lazysoci.al to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square26linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months 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-down1·2 months 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.