Truth and Knowledge

[Lance]

I was just browsing some of the [strike]sad and pathetic[/strike] thread titles at GLP and I think I had a revelation.

There are so many "Seekers of Truth" or "Seekers of Knowledge" there. It seems the more loudly you proclaim yourself to be a "Seeker", the less likely you are to be able to recognize truth or knowledge once you find it.

Maybe that's why they are always seeking... When they do find simple truth and knowledge it's not enough for them. The real world is too mundane, or not to be believed for some reason. Maybe paranoia plays a role.

[Мастер]

I was just browsing some of the [strike]sad and pathetic[/strike] thread titles at GLP and I think I had a revelation.

There are so many "Seekers of Truth" or "Seekers of Knowledge" there. It seems the more loudly you proclaim yourself to be a "Seeker", the less likely you are to be able to recognize truth or knowledge once you find it.

Maybe that's why they are always seeking... When they do find simple truth and knowledge it's not enough for them. The real world is too mundane, or not to be believed for some reason. Maybe paranoia plays a role.

Or, should you look around yourself, and determine that everyone you see seems to be better off (by whatever criterion you use, money, status, knowledge, whatever), your choices are (i) conclude that, by the criteria which are important to you, you are a failure, or (ii) conclude that things must be this way because the deck is stacked against you. Which answer is more appealing?

[Soothsayer]

I was just browsing some of the sad and pathetic thread titles at GLP and I think I had a revelation.
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Is it that you are no better than the people you mock?


There are so many "Seekers of Truth" or "Seekers of Knowledge" there. It seems the more loudly you proclaim yourself to be a "Seeker", the less likely you are to be able to recognize truth or knowledge once you find it.
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Many people seek the truth when they live in a society filled with lies and deceptions.

Do you understand what I am talking about?


Maybe that's why they are always seeking... When they do find simple truth and knowledge it's not enough for them. The real world is too mundane, or not to be believed for some reason. Maybe paranoia plays a role.
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Sometimes there is a simple answer, and sometimes the answer is more complex.

Intelligent and discerning people do not take everything at face value.

[Мастер]

I was just browsing some of the sad and pathetic thread titles at GLP and I think I had a revelation.
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Is it that you are no better than the people you mock?

I'd say that's a good question for a lot of GLPers to be asking themselves. They bleat about how they are "free thinkers," but I've never seen such a pathetic display of group-think in my life as I have on my GLP visits. Of course, since this is not GLP-authorized thought, they'd probably just proclaim me a government shill. But I don't particularly care what the sheeple think.

[Soothsayer]

I have noticed that on GLP there are all types of people from all age groups and all walks of life, and no matter what subject there are people on both sides of the issue.

Is it the the majority of GLPers not agreeing with what you have to say what really bothers you?

Perhaps you prefer the "group think" of this forum because you have more people here who agree with what you say, which soothes your ego.

[Мастер]

I have noticed that on GLP there are all types of people from all age groups and all walks of life, and no matter what subject there are people on both sides of the issue.

Is it the the majority of GLPers not agreeing with what you have to say what really bothers you?

Perhaps you prefer the "group think" of this forum because you have more people here who agree with what you say, which soothes your ego.

Yes, that must be why I don't like GLP. It couldn't possibly be because it's the internet version of the Jerry Springer show.

I wish I'd seen this one before, I might have given you (slightly) higher woo ratings in the "contempt" category...

[Lance]

A group of people all believing a stupid thing does not make them free. It makes them wrong.

We can probably all agree that flat-earthers are stupid and wrong, right?

[Bill EE]

Lance correctly stated:

A group of people all believing a stupid thing does not make them free. It makes them wrong.

I would also like to add it make them dangerous. Examples: NAZI Germany - the KKK.

[Мастер]

Lance correctly stated:

A group of people all believing a stupid thing does not make them free. It makes them wrong.

I would also like to add it make them dangerous. Examples: NAZI Germany - the KKK.

I've only been observing the freak show for a short time, but already it seems to me there is a positive correlation between woo-wooism and neo-Nazism. At least in the circles I travel, woos are universally regarded as a laughing stock and the lowest form of pond scum, but Bill EE correctly points out that they have in the past seized the apparatus of a modern state, and the results are catastrophic...

[Soothsayer]

I would also like to add it make them dangerous. Examples: NAZI Germany - the KKK.

I've only been observing the freak show for a short time, but already it seems to me there is a positive correlation between woo-wooism and neo-Nazism. At least in the circles I travel, woos are universally regarded as a laughing stock and the lowest form of pond scum, but Bill EE correctly points out that they have in the past seized the apparatus of a modern state, and the results are catastrophic...
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So your point is that the White House is full of woo woos?

That makes sense.

[Bill EE]

Soothsayer dribbled:

So your point is that the White House is full of woo woos?

The point is that people who fall for any crackpot theory can be dangerous. What most people of GLP don't understand is that a theory is not valid if it does not answer all the questions. For example, the "theory" that the US government staged the 9/11 attacks. This means that there were thousands of people ruthless enough to kill and not one has come forward. But this theory leaves a lot of questions open - if you, Soothsayer, have the key to blow the whole operation - why are you still alive? Why are those web sites allowed to operate?

[Мастер]

So your point is that the White House is full of woo woos?

Definitely there's some woodom in the White House! But I wasn't talking to you. I was addressing my comments to people who matter.

[MM_Dandy]

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