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>> "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." I really like this for a different reason. It’s one of the reasons I can appreciate flat-earthers (or other discordian-ish reality tunnels) from a slightly more philosophical standpoint: it really doesn’t matter
That quote has always bothered me. He uses incredibly small details to deduce incredible things, but thinks the solar system will never have any influence upon his casework. I can imagine scenarios where people thought the wrong things because of what the sun was doing, how far the sun was from the earth at the time, etc etc. It does matter, just not often... Much like the rest of what he uses to deduce things. It's…
What are some examples? I want to know so I may or may not learn to avoid your usual treatment of belief-normatives and instead be treated with your non-normative belief conditioned self-"protection" process, ultimately because I may or may not view your preference for "critical[/oppressive] thinking" as both or neither or simultaneously predatory and oppressive, not to mention self-deluding.
You are obviously excusing your propensity to oppress and judge others through your irrational attachment to your beliefs that amount to nothing but false pattern recognition--or "apophenia". Your demonstrable beliefs make you weak to the clustering illusion and reveal your illusion of control bias. Pareidolia leads you to tap into your capacity to focus and directs it into protecting yourself from "[non-]critical[/non-oppressive] thinkers", wasting your focus.
Yes, you can imagine, and yes you are right, but you are also more wrong than you may know. Your imagination is immaterial, your intuition however, is not. Regarding "small details to deduce incredible things"--don't take the quote so seriously... you are claim to know what the person quoited thinks ("but thinks the solar system will never...") ;) Every conscious being inherently groks interconnection. Your imagination is running your focus into a constipated mess, making you weak to FEAR where you feel the need to judge others based on their capacity to critically or oppressively think as a sort of protective mechanism.
It's YOU, not THEM, you think its THEM, because you don't recognize it's YOU that are losing focus IMAGINING it is THEM. You are attempting to protect yourself by giving preferential treatment to others, when really it's your own run away imagination and your attachment to it combined with the error of attributing the lack of awareness of the focus sink onto the actual non objects of your imagination (i.e. you are mistaking the finger for the moon).