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You know how dumb no-coiners look when they insist they know better than you but they’ve only studied the fiat currency they were born into? You talk circles around them, right? You talk about the Rai stones. You talk about gold and silver. You talk about glass beads and wampum. You talk about paper. You talk about shitcoins. You talk about Bitcoin. They sit there feeling completely outclassed. People don’t like that, especially in a public setting with witnesses. So, what often happens is the person who feels outclassed masquerades as though they are not outclassed. They don’t want to feel like they “can’t hang” in the conversation but since they cannot refute any of your talking points and have little of substance to say, instead they engage in attempts to rugpull the value of all of your due diligence with a fun tactic called “invincible ignorance”. Invincible ignorance is a tactic in which they stubbornly refuse to do their due diligence on the same subjects on the grounds that to do so would be a waste of time. While that may or may not be true, they cannot HONESTLY render that judgment as they have not done the due diligence. You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it. Even a 4 year old can understand this logic. Now…apply this same logic to religion. If you’ve only studied the tradition into which you were born, or maybe you’ve studied two because you’re a convert, you’re not different from the arrogant no-coiner banging the Keynesian fiat drum. Acting like you have a sound grasp on cosmology, ethics, and history when you’ve only got one or two traditions under your belt is charlatanism, arrogant, and frankly, participation in a Ponzi scheme of false validation. Each tradition offers testimony to the truth. Each witnesses testimony may be more or less distorted. It may contain more or less irrelevant baggage. Nonetheless each witness is a witness for some reason. They have SOMEthing useful to contribute. The one or two trick ponies lack proof of work and are noise obfuscating signal. 🪶 image

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*You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it*
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You know how dumb no-coiners look when they insist they know better than you but they’ve only studied the fiat currency they were born into? You talk circles around them, right? You talk about the Rai stones. You talk about gold and silver. You talk about glass beads and wampum. You talk about paper. You talk about shitcoins. You talk about Bitcoin. They sit there feeling completely outclassed. People don’t like that, especially in a public setting with witnesses. So, what often happens is the person who feels outclassed masquerades as though they are not outclassed. They don’t want to feel like they “can’t hang” in the conversation but since they cannot refute any of your talking points and have little of substance to say, instead they engage in attempts to rugpull the value of all of your due diligence with a fun tactic called “invincible ignorance”. Invincible ignorance is a tactic in which they stubbornly refuse to do their due diligence on the same subjects on the grounds that to do so would be a waste of time. While that may or may not be true, they cannot HONESTLY render that judgment as they have not done the due diligence. You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it. Even a 4 year old can understand this logic. Now…apply this same logic to religion. If you’ve only studied the tradition into which you were born, or maybe you’ve studied two because you’re a convert, you’re not different from the arrogant no-coiner banging the Keynesian fiat drum. Acting like you have a sound grasp on cosmology, ethics, and history when you’ve only got one or two traditions under your belt is charlatanism, arrogant, and frankly, participation in a Ponzi scheme of false validation. Each tradition offers testimony to the truth. Each witnesses testimony may be more or less distorted. It may contain more or less irrelevant baggage. Nonetheless each witness is a witness for some reason. They have SOMEthing useful to contribute. The one or two trick ponies lack proof of work and are noise obfuscating signal. 🪶 image
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Interesting note! Some questions: Practically speaking - how do you determine which of the huge number of rabbit holes to investigate? If one has found conviction in a particular tradition - after a reasonable amount of research - is that person duty bound to continue to look elsewhere?