Personal Reality Thread

Not sure why my post is attracting thumbs down.

Curious.

@indonesia-phil said
The greatest trick that our minds ever 'learned' was to make us aware of ourselves and our own existence, which makes us as a species unique in the animal world, and the great mystery is 'when did this happen?' All philosophy and religion starts from there.

The second greatest trick our minds 'learned' was to hide much of their true nature from ourselves to aid survival, but which aspects of religion and philosophy are to understand the first trick and which are to aid the second?!?

@divegeester said
An immediate thumbs down but no comment.

You could start by citing the source.

@suzianne said
You could start by citing the source.

Interesting you should say this.

Why do you need to know?

I thought the first line of divegeester's post was sufficient.

@fmf said
Interesting you should say this.

Why do you need to know?

I thought the first line of divegeester's post was sufficient.

Because people like you have made a habit of calling people out for not citing their source, yet you fail this time. One wonders why.

@suzianne said
I don't recall ringing your bell. Hush.

I don't recall pulling on your chains.........Shhhhhh....

-VR

@suzianne said
Because people like you have made a habit of calling people out for not citing their source, yet you fail this time. One wonders why.

Actually you wonder why? 😉

-VR

@fmf said
Interesting you should say this.

Why do you need to know?

I thought the first line of divegeester's post was sufficient.

I concur!~

-VR

@divegeester removed their quoted post

As you know from our long conversations about it, I think all this stuff is generated by a heady blend of three things [1] narcissism [2] political impotence and paranoia, and [3] unrefined and unfiltered confirnation bias.

The narcissism is fed by having a conspiracy theory prism that gives you access to analysis that other people don't get.

And the fact that other people don't get it is perceived as evidence that their prism is onto the truth.

@suzianne said
Because people like you have made a habit of calling people out for not citing their source, yet you fail this time. One wonders why.

The first line of divegeester's post is enough, surely. When people like me call others out for not "citing their sources", it's where there is clearly plagiarism. Have you never been able to discern that?

@fmf said
As you know from our long conversations about it, I think all this stuff is generated by a heady blend of three things [1] narcissism [2] political impotence and paranoia, and [3] unrefined and unfiltered confirnation bias.

The narcissism is fed by having a conspiracy theory prism that gives you access to analysis that other people don't get.

And the fact that other people don't get it is perceived as evidence that their prism is into the truth.

Everyone sees things differently...You could be right, then again you may be wrong depending on your thoughts on a certain Topic.

No one can be correct 100% of the time!!!

-VR

@very-rusty said
Everyone sees things differently...You could be right, then again you may be wrong depending on your thoughts on a certain Topic.

No one can be correct 100% of the time!!!

-VR

Why do you post this kind of pointless tosh?

@divegeester said
It a genuine account of conversations between myself and a person I know very well.

Suzianne, did you really not read this?

@divegeester said
As I said in the post, it is an unattributed (I’m saying who it is), abridged, derived and highly adapted from a series of real conversations with a highly intelligent and most excellent human being.

Suzianne, did you really not read this either?

@divegeester said
I know this person very well, it is a summation of expressions of their mindset and a notable part of their belief structure.

And what about this Suzianne, did you really not read this before asking him for his "source"?