more than 20 years experience
I only tried to answer the thread starter's question from my experience
It does not take much to experience
Furthermore, in my opinion,
Experience - by itself - means absolutely nothing if there is no understanding to explain what the experience actually is. A witch doctor can have 20 years experience casting out evil spirits. That doesn't mean that he understands or can explain disease.
Saying "apparently" also doesn't have any meaning. "Apparently" means, "... "to all appearances" (but not necessarily "really") ...". Notice that last qualifier; (... but not necessarily "really")
When you say, "... in my opinion...", that is not a statement of fact nor authority. Opinion is simply, " ... "a judgment formed or a conclusion reached, especially one based on evidence
that does not produce knowledge or certainty, ...".
People desperately need to understand the difference between objectivity and subjectivity.
Objectivity (and its partner, "science") is a method to understand the universe around us in a logical, dispassionate manner. For the majority of the past, voodoo, superstition and esoteric cults sought to explain and understand the world around us. They were full of passion (emotion) and desire, but for the most part, other than astronomy, they did not have any ability to predict the outcome of ongoing processes .... much less the future.
OTOH, the Scientific Method was developed slowly, over millennia, from the Smith and Ebers papyri on up to the present day, as a method of inquiring and observing. It used rational thinking to understand and categorize the processes of the world around us. It has the advantage of being able to predict the outcome of ongoing processes. (If you mix 1 cup of ammonia with 1 cup of chlorine bleach, you
WILL get an offgassing of chlorine gas ... and you'd best get out of the room!
)
Subjectivity, OTOH, is based on experience (not observation) and emotion (not rational thinking). Subjectivity is a huge part of our lives; it is the result of the biases that contribute so effectively to our survival ... biases that control our reactions faster than we can think about them.
But subjectivity is not rational. It is not dispassionate (just the opposite; it feeds on emotion) and it certainly is not logical. Through the action of many biases, subjectivity can be used to fool our brain time and time again, through illusions and through assumptions.
That makes using it for
accurately predicting the outcome of any certain process almost impossible. Subjectivity is not replicable (or repeatable or reproducible; different people use different terms.) Whereas the language of objectivity is definite and measurable, the language of subjectivity is ambiguous and indefinite, and not able to be accurately measured.
So ... feelings, experiences, opinions and appearances are
subjective ... and not useful for repeatability. They cannot be used to transfer information from one person to another with any accuracy.
OTOH ... logic, observations, deductions and reprodicible tests and measurements are
objective ... and useful to me, to you, to anyone in the world, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
This site was founded to use objectivity to ferret out useful (and dispassionate) information in audio using science-based methods. That doesn't mean that we do not have opinions ... we do. We have
personal opinions. but those opinions are not proselytized.
Jim