On Friday, August 30, 2024 at 9:48:12 AM UTC+2 Cosmin Visan wrote:
I am God. And so are you. We are all one and the same God dreaming infinite
dreams.
These kinds of statements become problematic when expressed publicly. It's
the same error of institutionalized religions, that make the equivalence
between possible personal private beliefs and normative public statements
("should be taught in schools and all the other 'shoulds' that are
implied), seem legitimate.
But it's the kind of statement I'd expect from you. Your papers contain
close to zero (if not zero) references to all the work of others that have
informed similar metaphysical positions. It's intellectual theft. You
apparently don't care to signal that you take ideas from other writers and
even from this list/members.
And that makes you fail at being credible. For even if we include the
rather large nuance that you made a private statement above and do not seek
authority (it's transparent and obvious by now that you do, seeking naive
followers and taking others' ideas to be your own, insults etc.), it's
clear that you don't live by the implications of your own statement: Would
a god recognizing the god/themselves in others not respect other people in
basic discourse without personal attacks, stealing ideas, and normative
statements like "you haven't read my papers enough!" or "You read them in
the wrong way because you are sexually frustrated". You do not abide by
your own conviction and loose credibility.
The list is immune to these cheap rhetorical tricks that showcase more your
own insecurities, lack of faith in your own assertions (such as the one
above) and frustrations than anybody else's.
If we are all one in some private sense, it follows that you recognize that
same quality in others and act accordingly. In particular, not confusing
private beliefs with normative public assertions. That is the manipulative
move of thieves, institutional religions, ideologists, fanatics, tyrants
etc.
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