I took your original comment to be saying “cults don’t work.”
Then, when I said “they do, though,” I took your second comment to be pearl-clutching and saying “well, now I think CFAR must be (slightly) evil or stupid for hiring someone who is willing to say out loud that cults work (gasp).”
You cannot possibly have drawn out of my statements above “Duncan thinks cousin_it thinks cults are harmless.”
I’m going to disengage because it’s not easy to have discourse with you (say things clearly, stick to a topic, expose reasoning, actually make progress toward truth or convergence). I don’t understand how your reasoning process works. I’m finding this subthread frustrating and low-value, and thus far the specific points I have been able to tease out of what you’re saying, I generally disagree with (and trust my domain knowledge and expertise more than I trust your skepticism-without-any-concrete-evidence-backing-it-up-from-someone-who’s-already-demonstrated-willingness-to-make-unfounded-leaps).
sigh.
I took your original comment to be saying “cults don’t work.”
Then, when I said “they do, though,” I took your second comment to be pearl-clutching and saying “well, now I think CFAR must be (slightly) evil or stupid for hiring someone who is willing to say out loud that cults work (gasp).”
You cannot possibly have drawn out of my statements above “Duncan thinks cousin_it thinks cults are harmless.”
I’m going to disengage because it’s not easy to have discourse with you (say things clearly, stick to a topic, expose reasoning, actually make progress toward truth or convergence). I don’t understand how your reasoning process works. I’m finding this subthread frustrating and low-value, and thus far the specific points I have been able to tease out of what you’re saying, I generally disagree with (and trust my domain knowledge and expertise more than I trust your skepticism-without-any-concrete-evidence-backing-it-up-from-someone-who’s-already-demonstrated-willingness-to-make-unfounded-leaps).