# Part 2 Another 'if you met God' how would your live change

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 6, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-2-another-if-you-met-god-how-would-your-live-change/577433 "2011-04-06T18:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-2-another-if-you-met-god-how-would-your-live-change/577433/41 "2011-04-08T00:20:16Z")

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> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Yes it was structured that any evidence would be subjective. What would it take to start trusting ‘your’ subjectivity over ‘group’ objectivity. To trust and have faith in your ability to see things as how they are regardless of what others may think or how they evaluate you or what tests say even when what they say is counter to what you say.
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> It was that good/bad luck surrounded them, in other words it was not them necessarily but those who had recent contact with them seemed to experience good/bad things. For instance you see a ‘dark eyes’ person one/month for work, after each visit you get pulled over by a cop that day. After visiting ‘light eyes’ person you get a new job, your tax refund and a bank error in your favor. This pattern seems to continue.

I’d still want it tested. I don’t believe in just accepting mysteries. I want to understand them.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-2-another-if-you-met-god-how-would-your-live-change/577433/42 "2011-04-08T02:17:41Z")

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> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Yes it was structured that any evidence would be subjective. What would it take to start trusting ‘your’ subjectivity over ‘group’ objectivity. To trust and have faith in your ability to see things as how they are regardless of what others may think or how they evaluate you or what tests say even when what they say is counter to what you say.

Why would I do that? I’m not special. I’m a person, and that’s a pretty cool thing to be, but it’s all I am. If all the other people are perceiving things one way, and I’m perceiving them another, I’m going to look for a cause for this discrepancy. It’s not absolute, but there’s a pretty strong chance that the discrepancy is a fault in my perception. I’ll only blame it on everyone else’s perception if I can figure out a way to gain independent corroboration via crosschecking my perceptions.

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