Truths You've Learned to Accept

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14 Jun 2024, 9:16 pm

People with the biggest ambitions usually have the smallest minds.

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I am sick, and in so being I am the healthy one.

If my darkness or eccentricness offends you, I don't really care.

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14 Jun 2024, 10:37 pm

Sometimes a good lie can be easier to believe than the truth.

When an authority tries to restrict or limit your rights or freedoms claiming it's to protect you, they are very likely intentionally tying to harm you.

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15 Jun 2024, 10:07 am

Fnord wrote:

• Ambiguity on your part justifies lack of action on my part.
• As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I am sure of is it will be misspelled and have no punctuation.
• Attacking the reputations of people who ask questions is a sure sign that the attackers do not know the answers.
• I cannot wait until morals, respect, and intelligence become trendy again.
• I would not need to keep secrets from you if you would just respect my right to privacy.
• It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
• Just because science can not currently explain an alleged event or experience, the explanation does not automatically default to an extraterrestrial, paranormal, or supernatural cause.

BUT...But.... I want to believe...! :roll:

(courtesy of the X files)

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15 Jun 2024, 10:13 am

I'm learning to accept that sometimes it is actually my fault

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15 Jun 2024, 12:40 pm

there will always be those greater and lesser than oneself.

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15 Jun 2024, 2:37 pm

Science and Scientism really are two different things

Hurt people hurt people

There is a lot more to the Serenity Prayer than first meets the eye: acceptance, change and wisdom continue to evolve and change and have many nuances.

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15 Jun 2024, 3:05 pm

some unhurt people like to hurt other people as well.

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15 Jun 2024, 3:10 pm

I'm not sure unhurt people exist. At least within in the 'old enough to speak' demographic.

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15 Jun 2024, 3:21 pm

josef mengele is one such. by all accounts he had an idyllic childhood.

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15 Jun 2024, 3:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:

josef mengele is one such. by all accounts he had an idyllic childhood.

I'm sure it was, on a superficial level. That doesn't mean that he never had traumatic experiences (whether or not he recognized them as such).

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15 Jun 2024, 4:23 pm

Sometimes people get brainwashed into believing they are being harmed by certain people or groups that are not harming them.

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15 Jun 2024, 4:26 pm

nick007 wrote:

Sometimes people get brainwashed into believing they are being harmed by certain people or groups that are not harming them.

I wouldn't assume a direct connection between his harming people and any potential trauma he might have experienced, but that's not the same as believing he was entirely without trauma.

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15 Jun 2024, 5:13 pm

nick007 wrote:

Sometimes people get brainwashed into believing they are being harmed by certain people or groups that are not harming them.

the GOP has directly harmed me in a number of ways over the decades. then they turned around and insulted me for good measure.

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15 Jun 2024, 5:20 pm

If you're not sure what the right thing to do is, it's usually the harder thing.

People act on emotions, and then retroactively justify their actions intellectually.

^Some people will violently reject the notion this applies to them.

More often than not, the precipitating emotion will be fear.

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15 Jun 2024, 5:44 pm

Some Useful Heuristics:

• A claim cannot support itself.
• A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
• Accusation, belief, correlation, delusion, emotion, intuition, opinion, rumor, and suspicion are not evidence.
• Any claim stated without valid empirical evidence can be readily dismissed without valid empirical evidence.
• Claims require valid evidence; extraordinary claims require valid extraordinary evidence.
• If the alleged existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its non-existence, then it can be safely said that the thing does not exist.
• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence or stupidity.
• The burden of proof lies upon a person making claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.

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15 Jun 2024, 7:16 pm

Learn all you can from the past to avoid repeating mistakes twice before you bury it.

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