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[cybermule]

"Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that a belief is
the same as the truth?"

- Gene Brewer from K-PAX

Comments

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

Ooo hoo, yes!

Damn difficult to make people realise they are based an argument on opinion, not fact...

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Agreed. What is particularly annoying is that being willing to admit that there is some possibility, however small, that you are wrong puts you at an instant disadvantage. So many signs of intelligence treated as signs of weakness :(

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

Very insightful post, imo. *pulls out the quote notebook*

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) It's good to know that the words occasionally fall out of my brain in a useful order :)

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

Oooo, never say you might be open to argument, or willing to compromise, or look at both/all three/seventeen sides of an argument...

That mean automatic assumption of guilt or wrongness :/

Anyhting like that is some how seen as sign of weakness. Grr.

Still, I know I'm right. So stuff the rest of ye who disagree with me.

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

'Lenin was wrong? Who says?'

[papalazarous.livejournal.com]

A few religious types could do with reading that quote.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - definitely. Whether they'd take any notice is a whole different story :P