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“MW13, Unfortunately, those kind of answers bother me, like we are no longer on the madreiga for this or that. Yiftach bdoro kShmuel bdoro. It is sort of an easy way out type of thing when we can’t see something, we say it only happened at XYZ generation to XYZ people.”
Let me put it this way: I assume that you believe that nevuah did exist, but doesn’t anymore. So why wouln’t you say the same about sheidim?
“Supposedly there is a Maamar Chazal that there were actually 600,000 Neviim throughout history. But we only have 24 books of Nach, because all the others were only for their dor, and were not relevant for later on. Only the ones in Nach are applicable for all time. So why do Chazal talk about things that are not applicable to me? And if you say it is relevant for the future, but the gemara also asks sometimes: Hilchesa limeshicha?”
There is a big difference between a Chazal and a Gemora. A Chazal is there to teach us what we should do (hashkafa, mussar, etc) while the Gemora is there to tell us what the halacha is. If you try getting halacha li’maseh conclusions out of every Chazal and Medrash, you might be busy for a while.