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Of course I do, it takes one to know one. Humanity is often a desperation. Couldn’t the fog just be lifted? Anyways, I know what everyone else, and I, are up t
by jesuscript 4y ago
Of course I do, it takes one to know one. Humanity is often a desperation. Couldn’t the fog just be lifted? Anyways, I know what everyone else, and I, are up to, and I’m sick of it.
- verisimi 4y agoRight, ok. I'm not sure I know what we are all up to. Feel free to tell me. I am most interested in how to discern knowledge (truth) from belief (lies) - how to stand on solid ground for myself. Being clear on what is presented has been of benefit to me. Try to lift one's own fog, as it were.
- jesuscript 4y agoYou seek answers in semantics. A human operates on emotion. The drug, ‘we are better than you’, there’s no knowledge in that. It’s a despair. We are unable to think through it. I don’t want to drive this home too far, but I hope you can feel it.
- verisimi 4y agoYes, 'we are better than you' is despair. The call of the unformed. Whenever I hear use of the pronoun 'we' it puts me on edge. "It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we” with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke “others” and regard himself as their interpreter—-for me to consider him my enemy." Emil Cioran There is no 'we', there is only I. But, no, being clear on that point, I'm not in despair.
- jesuscript 4y agoNice quote. I’m happy we can get close to the heart, however dangerous.