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I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don't eat beef. It's not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn't raised very religious, I didn't go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it's advantages).

But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara's, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I have had some seriously bizarre cases of deja vu. Like, recalling dreams I had years before that exactly predicted a place I would be in in the future. It has happened five or six times. It does make me question things such as consciousness and my place in the universe. It also makes me wonder if my brain is broken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I have this too - I assume it's a brain quirk.

That or time is an illusion. One or the other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think there are mundane answers to this. But "mundane" in this case could include cosmological factors like the universe is a weird temporal foam of timeywimey stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I've heard two theories for this that I think are plausible:

  • A feeling of familiarity even though this is a brand new situation. Your brain is always trying to determine the best course of action from experiences where you've encountered that problem before. Sometimes we have a false positive where the situation is so similar you "remember it", but it's obviously slightly different and new.

  • Essentially a memory read/write error. Your brain is recollecting as it's consolidating the memory causing wonkiness (technical term) in your experience. You think you remember, but what you're remembering is actually the present experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think deja vu is believed to be due to the second bullet point.

It's just that sometimes - maybe once in a dozen - it is subjectively very weird, and you just have to leave that little "ya but what if" in the corner of your mind with the other unlikely cosmological possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You think you remember, but what you’re remembering is actually the present experience.

Or you do remember, it's just very very very recent. The present moment is rather funky when it comes to perception (it's not an instant but more of a sliding window in time) and it's reasonable that things can feel like remembering precisely when you see something because whatever lag there is in "write to memory, read from memory" still fits into that sliding window.

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