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_Tal Bachman
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And guess what else, Beastie? It doesn't matter how glaringly, screamingly, ludicrously obvious this all is...it doesn't matter how blatantly Maxwell says EXACTLY what you've said here (as the quote I produced above shows)...it doesn't matter...nothing matters...at least not to Wade.

The reason why is that Wade is in a cult, just like you and I were; and when we are so "in", we are thoroughly emotionally and psychologically engaged, so much so, that we will not even admit that two plus two equals four, if doing so would eject us from that psychological state...for in that state there is safety and identity and future and past...and we have come to believe that outside of it then, there is inevitable and perpetual danger, oblivion, and no meaning or purpose at all...

Nothing you say will make a difference, just like nothing I say will make a difference, because Wade, as he has very convincingly demonstrated, is in exactly the same state as were the Heaven's Gate followers, who "knew" that there was a spaceship following Halley's comet, and when looking through their telescope failed to see that spaceship they "knew" was there, returned the telescope to Target because they then knew it was "defective". I was in that same state myself for too long a time.

Total detachment from reality, wherever reality conflicts with what we would most like to believe, is the cost of devotion to false beliefs. This is why, on the other thread, Wade will not even admit to knowing he is conscious: for any theory of knowledge he could ever present, he seems unconsciously to sense, inevitably will torpedo Mormonism. That is why none is ever offered, except perhaps the most ludicrous imaginable: "If I feel something is true, it means it is true", which not even your average non-Mormon six year old could believe, so ludicrous is it. Moreover, it provides no basis for any differentiation between "Mormon knowledge" and the "knowledge" of any other lunatic who says the same thing, and especially other religious believers who outperform Mormons in acts of piety (or lunacy) inspired by their feeling-based "knowledge".

Nothing matters, Beastie. Subsuming ourselves into any ideology, whether invented by Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, or Joseph Smith, in the end always makes us sound either like too-clever-by-half madmen (Nibley, Peterson, etc.), or the dullest of ignoramuses.
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