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i stopped after reading these two were taken in by promises of levitation. i dont care how attractive the cult is, youre an idiot to believe it

GoToRO 11mo ago
fun fact: if you get some chronic illness, you have good chances to become an idiot. Every time your body stops working in some major way, your thinking is also affected (you become a de facto idiot).
add-sub-mul-div 11mo ago
Otherwise intelligent people think software is sentient now. People believe weird things. We need to have compassion rather than write them off as idiots.
- mbivert 11mo ago
  In addition to people believing weird things, such views are often highly tied to an environment. Levitation is pure non-sense for people "in-doctrinated" (literally: ~ to have a doctrine within) by the contemporary, science-oriented environment. Similarly, dismissing the existence of God(s) − or thinking about it, of levitation[0] − would have been unthinkable for people genuinely "in-doctrinated" by many (all?) historical religions. Amusingly, contemporary science, which is often defined in opposition to blind religious ways, essentially operates like your garden-variety religion: faith practically required (among others, who can reproduce/prove (beyond a doubt) well-established results), hierarchy(ies)/rating system(s), esteemed texts, key public figures, etc. Usually, the deeper people understand their own in-doctrination, the more prudent they are regarding what they may consider true or not. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)#Religious_views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)#Religi...
lawn 11mo ago
Even the most intelligent people in the world are susceptible to the mind control techniques that eventually make you believe the unbelievable. You're simply uninformed if you believe otherwise.

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i stopped after reading these two were taken in by promises of levitation. i dont care how attractive the cult is, youre an idiot to believe it

by skeezyjefferson 11mo ago

GoToRO 11mo ago
fun fact: if you get some chronic illness, you have good chances to become an idiot. Every time your body stops working in some major way, your thinking is also affected (you become a de facto idiot).
add-sub-mul-div 11mo ago
Otherwise intelligent people think software is sentient now. People believe weird things. We need to have compassion rather than write them off as idiots.
- mbivert 11mo ago
  In addition to people believing weird things, such views are often highly tied to an environment. Levitation is pure non-sense for people "in-doctrinated" (literally: ~ to have a doctrine within) by the contemporary, science-oriented environment. Similarly, dismissing the existence of God(s) − or thinking about it, of levitation[0] − would have been unthinkable for people genuinely "in-doctrinated" by many (all?) historical religions. Amusingly, contemporary science, which is often defined in opposition to blind religious ways, essentially operates like your garden-variety religion: faith practically required (among others, who can reproduce/prove (beyond a doubt) well-established results), hierarchy(ies)/rating system(s), esteemed texts, key public figures, etc. Usually, the deeper people understand their own in-doctrination, the more prudent they are regarding what they may consider true or not. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)#Religious_views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)#Religi...
lawn 11mo ago
Even the most intelligent people in the world are susceptible to the mind control techniques that eventually make you believe the unbelievable. You're simply uninformed if you believe otherwise.