PureX
Veteran Member
So, for what seems like several decades, now, I have been struggling to point out to some of you on here that no one cares what any of us "believes in". And that we care even less (if that's possible) about what anyone "disbelieves in". What we actually care about, if we care about what each other has to say at all, is what you are asserting to be true. Whether or not you believe it to be true is of no consequence to us, because the truthfulness of what you are asserting is in no way buoyed up nor undermined by the degree to which you believe or "unbelieve in" it. Such that all we're actually interested in is the assertion, and why you are holding it forth as being true. Because our knowing these may strengthen or weaken or otherwise change or enhance whatever ideas we are holding to be true, ourselves.
I don't know how to say it any clearer that this.
But it's been to no avail. Y'all continue to pointlessly announce to all that you "believe in" this or that, or that you "unbelieve in" it, as if this were supposed to mean something to us. And although it doesn't, I can see that I must surrender to the irrepressible persistence in offering this pointless proclamation. Nothing I say is going to stop you.
However, I still doggedly refuse surrender to the use of the term "in" being added to the use of this term, "believe".
I can grudgingly accept that you assert; "I believe X = X" (even though I still don't care that you believe it, or how strongly you believe it). But I have no idea what you even mean when you proclaim that you "believe in X = X". Or the even crazier variation; that you "believe on X = X". It really is just nonsensical gibberish at this point, and I just cannot in good conscience allow it to pass as any kind of bona fide information transferal.
So, hence forth, be warned.
I don't know how to say it any clearer that this.
But it's been to no avail. Y'all continue to pointlessly announce to all that you "believe in" this or that, or that you "unbelieve in" it, as if this were supposed to mean something to us. And although it doesn't, I can see that I must surrender to the irrepressible persistence in offering this pointless proclamation. Nothing I say is going to stop you.
However, I still doggedly refuse surrender to the use of the term "in" being added to the use of this term, "believe".
I can grudgingly accept that you assert; "I believe X = X" (even though I still don't care that you believe it, or how strongly you believe it). But I have no idea what you even mean when you proclaim that you "believe in X = X". Or the even crazier variation; that you "believe on X = X". It really is just nonsensical gibberish at this point, and I just cannot in good conscience allow it to pass as any kind of bona fide information transferal.
So, hence forth, be warned.