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I wasn't kidding...

@Nak Khid Maybe they're all wrong lol.

@Keyhole I understand where you're coming from, but you did not address my question. Watch out for defensiveness... I am not attacking you I would not "ask this" of a starving child in a third world country, out of sensitivity and compassion for their circumstance (when survival needs are not met, contemplating Truth is especially inconvenient). However, assuming that you do have an interest in Truth, this question of what you honestly do or do not know is plenty worthwhile.

@Nak Khid Depends on what you mean by "flying elephants," "the number three," and "exist." Furthermore, the demand for a strict binary answer is an arbitrary restriction...

You don't honestly know this to be True, do you?

Can people lay out a basic list of measurable harms that he does?

You've failed to mention the enormous amount of resistance, demonetization, and backlash that will inevitably occur due to ignorance. Psychs are encouraged and embraced now because it's still sort of an underground thing - but if it breaks into the mainstream too quickly, expect a war.

It's amazing because a proponent of pseudoscience, dogma or quakery would say the same thing... (coming from a different place). A common stage blue Theist argument for Faith in God is that "Faith transcends evidence." Ironically, this statement is correct in some ways... and yet the stage blue version of "Faith" usually boils down to unexamined bias.

I cried too, but not because of trauama or wounds. Rather, something about the extreme precision with which universal love was articulated turned me into a baby haha.

@anAna The deception IS thinking that you are not deceived.

"challenge accepted" hahahaha

@Chumbimba what a gorgeous description lmao

Of course I don't know. So I admit that, and I stay humble.

@anAna Self-deception is a bitch. Be careful

Absolutely LEGENDARY.

@LaucherJunge You vaguely managed to point to "the CIA" and "Hollywood," (whatever that means) as the oppressive, shadowy "they" - "they" do this to us, "they" do that to us. You used the word "they" a total of 12 times in that post, all with negative connotations. Yet, it's evident that you have no idea what this "they" even is. Buzzwords like "the CIA" and "Hollywood" are empty words. Have you been to Hollywood? Do you personally know any CIA agents? How many? Consider the possibility that you are punching at phantoms. It seems to me that even IF by some miracle, everything you've said happened to be "factually accurate," you are nonetheless trapped in the imaginations of your own mind (as we all are, but to a greater degree). @Ferdi Le Brilliant...

*on average, assuming "men" and "women" to be categorically distinct groupings.

Awesome! Out of curiosity, what do you do?

You don't actually know this.

@Bjorgan I think you're beautiful

@DivineSoda Epic response

The ancient Greeks called these kinds of people "sophists." Masters of rhetoric - yet fundamentally self-deceived. A pretty tongue does not equate to intellectual mastery.

lol the arrogant critiques from below are always a pleasure

None of this should be taken seriously as THE existential Truth. If you for some reason happen to see triangles making up reality, that is only true insofar as you have imagined the triangles to be there. Be careful in thinking that "Plato believed..." As I've already mentioned, Plato is not wedded to anything that he has his characters say. Be open to the possibility that Plato has (convincingly) written in deliberate falsehoods for the purpose of dramatization. This is all a "likely story" according to the character "Timaeus" as represented by the storyteller Plato. It is just as likely as a modern scientific model: that is, it has elements of Truth, and yet it is not the Whole Truth. As for the question of "accuracy" and determining which story is more likely - that endeavor is utterly relative and has no definitive answer.