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Name: Anonymous 2013-03-19 16:32

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-21 20:11

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You seem to give too much weight to your assumption that I define my thoughts from other people rather than simply the environment, i.e. nature.
Okay, then I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Could you explain and maybe give a concrete example?

But my very reasoning is heavily influenced by my experiences.
I'm having mixed feelings about this. I'll split it into two quotes and deal with each accordingly.

But my very logical/mathematical reasoning is heavily influenced by my experiences.
Well, you were taught logical thinking, formally or not. Or maybe you're a genius and you reinvented it all by yourself. Either way, you can start off from a very small set of logical axioms which you can accept as "obviously" true, then work your way up from there towards statistics and other ways to interpret and analyze reality. My point is, you can convince yourself that any result obtained in this manner, given that the assumptions it uses are true, is also true, and this process does not depend on your later experiences (unless they consist of a sharp blow to the head).

But my very underlying assumptions [which I manipulate via some more-or-less formal logical rules] is heavily influenced by my experiences.
That is absolutely correct. Even the best reasoner in the world will come to the wrong conclusion if they start with one wrong assumption. This is why I said that it's very important to carefully pick your assumptions and "be difficult" about the things you are willing to accept as facts or (more alarmingly, since it can be used to manipulate people) meanings for things.

If I am always right and everyone/everything is wrong, then I must live in a world of wrong.
It is unlikely that literally everyone is wrong (given that there are 7bil people on the planet), but you could safely state that most of them are extremely wrong on at least one thing.

Who would want that?
If that's the way the world is, you have to accept it and go on from there.

I'd rather believe everything is love, even if pretty fucking bitter-sweet or kinky love.
I'm not sure I understand. But I'm pretty sure it's not mutually exclusive to accepting that most things and people are wrong.

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