Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip

Re:Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip by psd1 on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:02AM (#48976101)

I'm also impressed, but not in a good way. I consider certainty to be the biggest tell of falsehood, and I wish to deny the vote to people with certainty.

Certainty of opinion on a complex topic reveals a belief that organic brains can, in practice, judge the correctness of their own reasoning - a conceit that borders on the psychotic, and at minimum a complete failure of self-awareness. These people don't need agency, they need thorazine.

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Re:Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip by jazzyjackson on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:21AM (#48978517)

You sound awfully sure of yourself!

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Re:Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip by psd1 on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:52AM (#48989752)

Have you accepted Bertrand Russell into your heart? Here's a pamphlet.

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Re:Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip by stringfood on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:33AM (#48980298)

yea it's like when someone is a really good liar - some skills you shouldn't want to have. Being insanely sure of the history of the universe when you have incredibly scant information, is surely not a good thing, unless you need to use it to survive through an illogical and chaotic world

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