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Have I mentioned that two of my partners clocked me so hard they were apparently referring to us as "noted singlet Katt Lastname" behind our back? :D
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@starkatt This seriously makes me wonder if anyone is reading me this way, given all the stuff going on in and around my head which could clearly be read as plural-adjacent.
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@indi (related to conversations with @KawaSeadrake and @Oneironott )
I think i's complicated? Basically, like I said, there's a lot of subjective experiences that have a lot of commonality -- but also important differences -- and how they're interpreted varies widely. As long as a model resonates & is respectful to everyone involved, more than one can be valid? I dunno how important delineations like "are or are not plural" are in the end, though they can be useful starting points.
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@starkatt I mean, to the degree that it risks getting into situations where my friends think my deities, spirit allies, etc, are actually all in my head, I think it does sorta matter? :)
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@indi That does make sense, and I didn't mean to suggest that they are just in your head. More saying, if someone experienced similar subjective experiences as you but considered them purely internal because those are the narratives they expect, that could be valid (whatever that means, I'm not actually sure) also? I feel like I'm running into that weird "more than one thing can be true, even -- and sometimes especially -- contradictory things" territory.
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@starkatt Oh, yeah, in full agreement there and I didn't think anyone in this conversation was suggesting anything of the sort specifically. I'm just wary of catch-all explanations, even permissive ones, since they can sometimes give short shrift to the value of more-specific beliefs (see also my comments else-thread about chaos magic)