Click to leave your mind at the back of the plane.
Of every weird thing Jan has ever said, sometimes I'm amazed at what people get hung up on.
Seriously, if we follow this back to Xelasnave at
#641↑—
"For you to protect your belief you must ignore looking at videos that tell the history of and evolution of religion. The history shows it is all made up ...all of it made up."—it ought to be pretty obvious which part Jan is playing with. To phrase, "all of it made up", is open to word games, and that's precisely what happens.
Amid everything else, "the universe is beginning less", is really so confusing? I mean, sure, there's a typo in an irregular word, but his answer to your inquiry is pretty straightforward.
All that bullshit, and this is the part that grabs your attention and has you confused?
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I once had a discussion about quality of discussion. Okay, I've had a few of those, over time, but I'm thinking of one in particular. The problem reads like a vicious circle—
set low standards, complain about the result [rinse, repeat]—and what always seems striking is the manner in which ostensibly intelligent people are expected to jump in and ring around the rosy.
The Sciforums version of it would look at the scattered street preacher who makes no sense, has no real flock, and spends his time muttering after his own gratification in ways most of us just don't understand, and raise him up as an idol. And if you actually make the point about this self-inflicted fret and fear, there is always someone who will decide the real problem is that the street preacher might not be flattered by your failure to find him so intelligent, important, or otherwise devilishly dangerous.
As I happened to tell, well, the actual Jan Ardena,
once upon a time↑, people need him to be or feel more dangerous than he really is:
If I say, mostly harmless, and, don't panic, there are at least a couple of people here who ought to know what that means. But they need [Jan] to be more akin to the Devil itself, and so [he is] just that much more important to them.
Meanwhile, it remains true I often don't care if certain people fail to be flattered by my assessment of their capacities.
Talk about Poe's Law: A tweet crossed my thread, today, and the controversy it stirred resulted in the author explicitly making the point that her original tweet was satire; the only reason I knew it was satire was the fact of how it crossed my thread, that is, who retweeted it. Any friend of Nicholas Nickleby, y'know. But without that external cue, it was impossible to tell the difference 'twixt the satire and the usual Poe Effect involving the need to discern genuine Sanders supporters from provocateurs and bots.
The Sciforums version is the belief that some of our advocates of the supernatural are somehow dangerous. Jan Ardena has no flock but those who need him as an idol to lash against. In a manner at once most convoluted yet also so basically codependent, they very nearly fulfill his mission.
