My dear Wee Willy. The 'logic' in your declaration is clear, obvious and sound as far as it goes. Yet it is a closed system, a closed loop. You have set it up that way and, like a rat on a wheel you run on it with dedication. But it goes nowhere, and you go nowhere, and in the larger picture you are unaware of what is being lost right under your nose. The metaphor that is most serviceful here is the one that describes trading one's patrimony for a mess of pottage. You trade in high-value reasoning for low-value and low-grade reasoning. And the consequences become evident. Not so much in you but more around us, and the larger picture is my concern. Additionally, you are snide, surly, rude and destructive to honest conversation as a general feature and in your exposition. In my case at any rate this is a *tell*.uwot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:16 pmCertainly Gus. For perhaps the fourth or fifth time to you personally, and given that record probably not the last, what I believe is that all theories are underdetermined. Human creativity is such, in my belief, that for any phenomenon, there will always be alternative explanations. In the current context, the phenomenon is the bible. One explanation is that is inspired by a god who created the entire universe, but for inscrutable reasons during the iron age was entirely concerned with events in an area roughly the size of Denmark, and hasn't shown any obvious interest since. There are alternative explanations which I think are more plausible, but which cannot disprove divine inspiration.
Whatever you are looking at, you are not looking at it right, nor are you looking at the right thing. So what I get from you, which does make you so easy to dismiss, is the high degree of shallowness of your understanding of that which you have willed you will negate and exclude. As you may have gathered I find your *method* completely insufficient to the task -- to a responsible task. And thus you work in some concert with others who also seem irresponsible. The issue of responsibility is a large concern of mine, obviously. You seem to me destructive men, undermining men, but immature men.
Now I too have repeated something to you and many more times than you have outlined your mind-numb recitation: there is more to be gained from examining why you have ensconced yourself within the closed-loop or the rat's wheel; and how it is that a person, and a culture, arrives at the position in which we find you. Joining in with a destructive, even a suicidal, current that undermines structures in so many adjacent areas. In my view you lack self-awareness certainly but awareness generally. One must assume that you believe that you are *finding your bearings*, that you are locating yourself in clarifying truth, and that your method and your views can help others toward the same. By this does not appear as a consequence, rather the opposite appears. I cannot imagine that you would operate from some other position but heaven only knows. In any case this sort of brazen, dismissive certainty is common. It underpins the current discussion here obviously.
Yet my impression of you -- here more you-plural (speaking to a wide movement in culture) -- is that you do not have bearings, you have positions based in negation, which comes so easily really. It appears to me narcissistic in some degree. But I could not say that I do not find those who work angles similar to yours that they are insincere nor dishonest, at least initially. As the position hardens though -- and this is my view -- it does begin to coalesce into an active nescience.
