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Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:03 pm Questions can be your master, your retreat from thought, and the comfort blanket of enslavement that appeals to socialists.

Considering that the right question is half of the right answer, why entertain wrong questions if not to seek the wrong answer?

(Asking what the right question is, is not the right question).

However ... I did provide the right question, as a full of thought courtesy for the thought-challenged to answer.

You're such a poser, Walker.

Did you know that science says those with a particular form of mental illness are incapable of distinguishing delusion from reality, and in the face of all evidence that contradicts their delusion, will insist on the delusion? No matter what?

Keep in mind that although similar, delusion and illusion are not the same.

This explains much.
It implies that the delusion and the illness that incapacities accurate cognizance are co-dependent for existence.
This understanding generates compassion for such enslavement.

If you don’t understand that, rest assured there are folks who do.

Another lonely, pointless day in God's world. Maybe if I were an atheist, I wouldn't be miserable?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 3:15 am Another lonely, pointless day in God's world. Maybe if I were an atheist, I wouldn't be miserable?

Maybe if you stopped believing in a lonely pointless God’s world. You wouldn’t be miserable anymore. That’s obvious.

Nothing in your world, Gary’s world, is forcing you to believe in anything you don’t want to believe in, belief is always going to be about what Gary’s world allows willingly to be real or pointless.

Do you believe in Gary’s world?

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:25 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:26 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:25 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing.

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:39 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:26 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:25 am So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing.

But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have either of us ever felt "nothing"? And if so, what did it "feel" like?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:42 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:39 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:26 am

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing.

But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have either of us ever felt "nothing"? And if so, what did it "feel" like?

Nothing can ever meet or touch nothing, so I guess there’s just nothing feeling nothing.

I believe in god, but I’ve never actually touched or met god.

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:47 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:42 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:39 am

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing.

But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have either of us ever felt "nothing"? And if so, what did it "feel" like?

Nothing can ever meet or touch nothing, so I guess there’s just nothing feeling nothing.

I believe in god, but I’ve never actually touched or met god.

I don't know what God is. If I have ever met God, then I didn't recognize God during or after the encounter. And if I ever am to meet God in the future, then I can't imagine (from where I am now) that it would be a pleasant experience for either me or God.

If it were the case that language is a process of pruning for our species, then woe be the one who is to be pruned.

Some in the field of neuroscience believe that schizophrenia is a process of the brain pruning neural connections (a normal process for us) that gets out of control and turns into dysfunction.