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“The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.” — Paul Tournier

MrMcCall 2y ago
The best thing is to know that you know you are right. It takes humility to become a Dunning-Kruger true-expert. For me to act like I don't know the truth is a kind of lie, and I despise lies. I know that I know, and you think that I do not know, while I know that you do not know that I can know what I know, but that's because you don't even believe that what I know can be known, ya know? No, you don't, and I know you don't, thus your protestations and opinions are irrelevant. You know the non-achievers in Dunning-Kruger? As an expert, I know why they're the way they are, and I know how they could get better. That's because I've trod the humble road of discovery and hard work, and I bear the fruits of that labor. Part of that fruit is knowing that I know. "Know thyself" is important for a reason. If you read what I write with an open mind, you will learn more about yourself. The importance of humble, honest, relentless effort is the most crucial takeaway from D-K. That's why the low-achievers think more highly of themselves than they should, and why the opposite is true of the high-achievers.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
  “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves” -- Matthew 7:15
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    Good thing I love everyone and have a loving family with two exceptional teenagers in this age of troubled youth. We laugh and have fun and my wife and kids are beloved by everyone they know, and each of us have developed personal skillsets that bring us and those around us joy. I was about to post this, from memory: "You will know them by their fruits." Then I DDG'd it, and -- GUESS WHAT!? -- it was the verses that follow the verse you supplied :-) Matthew 7:16-20: You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. You know what the math genius janitor last said just after he left the bar in "Good Will Hunting", right?
    - SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
      I've been having fun with your unwarranted grandiosity, but seriously, this very much reads like someone in the middle of a manic episode, who believes themselves to have amazing capabilities and secret knowledge, and who needs to proselytize in exhausting detail their magical understanding and universal love to everyone who will hear it. I sincerely hope you're doing as well as you say you are, because it's a bit concerning.
      - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
        Exactly. I also suggested he get some counseling a few days ago. He is deep in the delusions. I read his comments from time to time as entertainment on how crazy people are. To kind of keep tabs on what kind of crazy people exist, and what they are saying. But after his latest comments, it is little more depressing. A raving lunatic can be entertaining. But it isn't entertaining anymore to know someone is having that many problems, and needs help. Of course, it is on the internet, an unreliable narrator. Could just be a troll? Hard to tell.
    - MrMcCall 2y ago
      I see there's enough apples to go around to those who would rather call me names and reply to each other than try to mount a cogent argument to the facts of life. Of course, it's easier for them to think I'm crazy or delusional than it is for them to understand that they're just plain stupid and arrogant. Of course, the biggest problem with the stupid is that they're often too arogant and stupid to know how stupid they are. That's why the Earth is as it is, after millenia of the carnage caused by widespread human idiocy and cruelty. The first two casualities of the enemy of truth's war on human happiness are truth and love. Seeking deeper truths leads us to the importance of love, and seeking to be more loving grants us access to deeper truths. They are the two most necessary components of our virtues' upward developmental spiral. I've heard it said, "Hurt people hurt people." Ad hominems and calling someone crazy is always the way of the vanguished foe, the ones whom words fail, and whose intellects have broken under the strain of the truth. Once the ad hominems start, their loss has been written in pen by the arbiter, and the victor can explain the blunders that led to their overwhelming victory.

The best thing is to know that you know you are right. It takes humility to become a Dunning-Kruger true-expert. For me to act like I don't know the truth is a kind of lie, and I despise lies. I know that I know, and you think that I do not know, while I know that you do not know that I can know what I know, but that's because you don't even believe that what I know can be known, ya know? No, you don't, and I know you don't, thus your protestations and opinions are irrelevant. You know the non-achievers in Dunning-Kruger? As an expert, I know why they're the way they are, and I know how they could get better. That's because I've trod the humble road of discovery and hard work, and I bear the fruits of that labor. Part of that fruit is knowing that I know. "Know thyself" is important for a reason. If you read what I write with an open mind, you will learn more about yourself. The importance of humble, honest, relentless effort is the most crucial takeaway from D-K. That's why the low-achievers think more highly of themselves than they should, and why the opposite is true of the high-achievers.

SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves” -- Matthew 7:15
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  Good thing I love everyone and have a loving family with two exceptional teenagers in this age of troubled youth. We laugh and have fun and my wife and kids are beloved by everyone they know, and each of us have developed personal skillsets that bring us and those around us joy. I was about to post this, from memory: "You will know them by their fruits." Then I DDG'd it, and -- GUESS WHAT!? -- it was the verses that follow the verse you supplied :-) Matthew 7:16-20: You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. You know what the math genius janitor last said just after he left the bar in "Good Will Hunting", right?
  - SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
    I've been having fun with your unwarranted grandiosity, but seriously, this very much reads like someone in the middle of a manic episode, who believes themselves to have amazing capabilities and secret knowledge, and who needs to proselytize in exhausting detail their magical understanding and universal love to everyone who will hear it. I sincerely hope you're doing as well as you say you are, because it's a bit concerning.
    - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
      Exactly. I also suggested he get some counseling a few days ago. He is deep in the delusions. I read his comments from time to time as entertainment on how crazy people are. To kind of keep tabs on what kind of crazy people exist, and what they are saying. But after his latest comments, it is little more depressing. A raving lunatic can be entertaining. But it isn't entertaining anymore to know someone is having that many problems, and needs help. Of course, it is on the internet, an unreliable narrator. Could just be a troll? Hard to tell.
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    I see there's enough apples to go around to those who would rather call me names and reply to each other than try to mount a cogent argument to the facts of life. Of course, it's easier for them to think I'm crazy or delusional than it is for them to understand that they're just plain stupid and arrogant. Of course, the biggest problem with the stupid is that they're often too arogant and stupid to know how stupid they are. That's why the Earth is as it is, after millenia of the carnage caused by widespread human idiocy and cruelty. The first two casualities of the enemy of truth's war on human happiness are truth and love. Seeking deeper truths leads us to the importance of love, and seeking to be more loving grants us access to deeper truths. They are the two most necessary components of our virtues' upward developmental spiral. I've heard it said, "Hurt people hurt people." Ad hominems and calling someone crazy is always the way of the vanguished foe, the ones whom words fail, and whose intellects have broken under the strain of the truth. Once the ad hominems start, their loss has been written in pen by the arbiter, and the victor can explain the blunders that led to their overwhelming victory.