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[Rafael Thundercat]

Actualized Quotes #485 https://share.google/S8YdkIvuUesCy3khX

This is a Super Power worth having. 

X-Ray Vision for Truth and Corruption 

[LoneWonderer]

On 28/03/2026 at 0:15 AM, gettoefl said:

I am going to give every cent to my kids. Maybe one day they do same for me. Of course with me gone they will do same for their kids. It's perfect life.

@gettoeflHey man, thanks for your perspective, I hadn't considered this because I don't have kids who I love deeply. Good on ya! 

[Socrates]

Actualized Quotes #481

This is probably the worst take I've seen from Leo.

Public education is 95% pre rational in itself; repeating and parroting "correct" scientific ideas isn't rational nor does it introduce you to rationality, it is blind indoctrination, hence it is pre-rational. Every uni student and academia-influenced person I know has no method for validating facts, nor does he care to develop one; he just takes an opinion, filters it through the academic who already verifies his preexisting beliefs, and basically outsources the whole process. This isn't rationality, this is fancy pre-rationality portrayed as rigor, and only naive conformist idiots fall for it.

Someone mastering rationality DESPITE university indoctrination is even more rare. So if you want to make a statement like that i'd be more willing to argue that you should treat people who went to college like pre-rational baboons than the other way around.

Edited 4 hours ago by Socrates

[UnbornTao]

The quote from Psychology Today is quite interesting. I'm too lazy to fact-check it now but I'll take Leo's word for it.

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, Socrates said:

Actualized Quotes #481

This is probably the worst take I've seen from Leo.

Public education is 95% pre rational in itself; repeating and parroting "correct" scientific ideas isn't rational nor does it introduce you to rationality, it is blind indoctrination, hence it is pre-rational. Every uni student and academia-influenced person I know has no method for validating facts, nor does he care to develop one; he just takes an opinion, filters it through the academic who already verifies his preexisting beliefs, and basically outsources the whole process. This isnt rationality, this is fancy pre-rationality portrayed as rigor, and only naive conformist idiots fall for it.

So if you want to make a statement like that i'd be more willing to argue that you should treat people who went to college like pre-rational baboons than the other way around.

Your position makes no sense.

Where do you think humans learn rationality?

They don't develop it themselves. It is taught in university. Just cause many university students are poor students doesn't mean the classes don't teach it.

If you do serious university study you will learn it.

You speak like someone who hasn't studied seriously at a university. Without universities, virtually no one would be rational.

Edited 4 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Miguel1]

17 hours ago, Eskilon said:

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” -- Lao Tzu

Man, what a twist of fate. I laughted at this.