You know that feeling you get when you checkmate someone in a debate? Then when they try to weasel out of it you're like "Really? Come on. Didn't we do this already?"
Well, thats the feeling they get when they say something really fucking stupid about transitional forms or quote a Bible passage. They perceive that as a checkmate then they perceive whatever detailed explanation you give as weaseling out. People want to be right more than they want what they're saying to be true. More than that their world view, their perception of the world around them is all geared up to convince them with utter certainty they are infact the ones in the right. Because which cave man fucks the most cave women? Thats right, the one whos able to convince the most people hes right most of the time because thats the guy who becomes leader but the first person he has to utterly convince is himself. That caveman whos comfortable conceding he was wrong that one time? Ruined. Noone wants anything to do with him, that Barney Rubble motherfucker is going to get us eaten by a sabertooth or something. The tribe gives zero fucks about the fact he was honest. That guy is marked as a liability, a jynx. If you want proof of concept just look at politics.
In short; one or both of you is not perceiving things how they really are and you will never convince the other that its them. Oh, unless they convince themselves. Because that way they're still in the right because they got there in the end. It can't be because someone proved them wrong. That shits just devastating to the ego. People will rarely accept an opposing conclusion unless they're somehow convinced they reached it.
Well, thats the feeling they get when they say something really fucking stupid about transitional forms or quote a Bible passage. They perceive that as a checkmate then they perceive whatever detailed explanation you give as weaseling out. People want to be right more than they want what they're saying to be true. More than that their world view, their perception of the world around them is all geared up to convince them with utter certainty they are infact the ones in the right. Because which cave man fucks the most cave women? Thats right, the one whos able to convince the most people hes right most of the time because thats the guy who becomes leader but the first person he has to utterly convince is himself. That caveman whos comfortable conceding he was wrong that one time? Ruined. Noone wants anything to do with him, that Barney Rubble motherfucker is going to get us eaten by a sabertooth or something. The tribe gives zero fucks about the fact he was honest. That guy is marked as a liability, a jynx. If you want proof of concept just look at politics.
In short; one or both of you is not perceiving things how they really are and you will never convince the other that its them. Oh, unless they convince themselves. Because that way they're still in the right because they got there in the end. It can't be because someone proved them wrong. That shits just devastating to the ego. People will rarely accept an opposing conclusion unless they're somehow convinced they reached it.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
