This is why voters vote based on slogans rather than complex political theory
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The whole “my truth” is a cop out for ignorant people that don’t have a real argument
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It’s human nature Rudyard. “It is tough to fool somebody but it is almost impossible to convince someone they’ve been fooled” those words are still ringing true in America and all across the world today
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And these are the people telling us we don’t have reading comprehension.
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Most people mistake comfort for truth and familiarity for certainty. They don’t test their epistemology because they’ve never even realized they have one.
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If Nick has groypers, what do we call ourselves? Rudyardigans? Lynch Mob?
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Some people can't consider the consequences of something without believing it. That said, having firm beliefs and not believing in contradictions is a fine (and, I think, good) way to live, especially if you are one of the few who can entertain ideas without believing in them. A castle has its crenellations on top to provide both better visibility and defence. If the top were boxed in, then the lookouts could not see armies approaching, and the archers could not shoot. If the crenellations were low on the wall, they would be easily captured by the enemy; they would provide less visibility and the arrows could not fly so far. Maintain a "closed" but inquisitive, active and curious mind - don't leave your gates lying open, and don't neglect to send out your scouting parties.
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This is why Jesus and the entire Bible teaches in parables. You can’t nitpick a parable, you either get it or you don’t.
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The Lord always called us his sheep and having had the unfortunately of working with the brain dead suicidal beasts myself during my childhood. I can assure you that he didn’t always mean it as a compliment
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And this is why democracy is a mistake. People cannot fathom a world outside of their POV. It's staggering and horrific. It's bad enough around 20% of the population has an IQ too low to handle hypotheticals at all, but most people are so indoctrinated that even having the theoretical ability to handle theoreticals is meaningless for a vast majority of people who simply cannot consider a hypothetical reality where their presupposition is false. There's one thing to have a biased preference, but most people cannot even consider alternatives once they determine one thing is true, even if it's a massively broad thing that they might not even fully grasp and the question is in regards to 1 small part that they might not fully grasp. Humans are on the verge of greatness, but our refusal to acknowledge our own collective stupidity and false rationales is our greatest undoing
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This is why we need to bring back intellectual groups and clubs in local communities. People need to be exposed to the ideas of those they live around
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I’m am older individual. I love your work and your profound educated insights. I’m not your target audience, however, hearing you, speak… gives me hope for my grandchildren. You are inspiring and incredible. The lack of understanding by others will always be… disheartening. Always has been. As an outsider all my life,.. reference has little to no effect of those unwilling to “consider “. .. Please accept my sincere appreciation. Your work is so important. I personally enjoy everything you write/post.
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That type of thinking is why I have a small circle of friends. I appreciate most people I meet but over the years of my life I’ve realized that only some people ever really learn how to have a conversation. It is what it is, I can’t change it or others so I don’t make it my business and try to find gratitude for whatever life presents.
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I think the problem is that traditionally, people are taught to "win" arguments like it is life or death; the reality is that the "loser" is the one who profits through emendation of their worldview. The other problem is how we've been blind to the fact we've been living in Plato's cave. We've been filling our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values, and it's really easy to feed our biases.
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"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
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You rarely see the world actually ran by one ideology, it’s always a bit of a mixture. Reality is always far more complicated and messy than most slogans say.
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You now know what I’ve been dealing with for almost three decades Rudyard. The best way I found was to disarm them by making them laugh about something related to what you want to discuss
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Does anyone else hate it when you’re trying to explain a worldview beyond current ideology by comparing different worldviews. Then they’ll say “but my worldview says ____ is true, but yours doesn’t. That means you’re wrong.” Then they can’t even understand you’re not operating in a framework where you can trust that if “____ ideology says _____ then I can totally trust it.” For example if you’re trying to cross reference different academic disciplines with distinct world religions to come to answer and then someone says “but Christianity says ____ so you’re wrong.” Or if you make a complex multifaceted point someone will say “I read a journal that says you’re wrong.”
It’s so staggeringly infuriating and they can never realize that they’re doing it. They just think they’re right. However, I just can’t live like them. I can’t just hear something from a single philosophic school and believe it. I need to know the answer behind what others say the answer is. The issue is that these types of people tend to be better at organizing and doing stuff since they’re more groupish with easier ideals to organize around so they win in most cases. There are starting to be very few places for people like me.
The answer to this will be people saying “but my worldview is objectively correct so I am correct in doing this” which totally proves my point even more
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