Lol. I assure you, I was not high while writing this.
I’m just enthusiastic about this because, well, you’d be too if you believed human fooming was possible.
In my teens, I had a brush-in with organized religion (it didn’t last). I converted for social reasons, not intellectual ones, but I still felt pretty excited when I believed that the religion’s claims were possible. Excitement-at-belief can mark an affective death spiral, and can seriously impair critical thinking about your belief and its referents. It’s not an expected byproduct—for any person who becomes convinced of, say, human-fooming, and becomes giddy-excited, it should be trivially possible to imagine someone who is also convinced of human-fooming and not giddy-excited, and we should generally expect such a person to be able to make a much better case for the idea, if such a case can in fact be made.
In short, either you’re right and you’ll be much more persuasive once you find your way out of the glee, or you’re wrong and you’ll realize that when you calm down.
Lol. I assure you, I was not high while writing this. I’m just enthusiastic about this because, well, you’d be too if you believed human fooming was possible.
In my teens, I had a brush-in with organized religion (it didn’t last). I converted for social reasons, not intellectual ones, but I still felt pretty excited when I believed that the religion’s claims were possible. Excitement-at-belief can mark an affective death spiral, and can seriously impair critical thinking about your belief and its referents. It’s not an expected byproduct—for any person who becomes convinced of, say, human-fooming, and becomes giddy-excited, it should be trivially possible to imagine someone who is also convinced of human-fooming and not giddy-excited, and we should generally expect such a person to be able to make a much better case for the idea, if such a case can in fact be made.
In short, either you’re right and you’ll be much more persuasive once you find your way out of the glee, or you’re wrong and you’ll realize that when you calm down.