(May 12, 2016 at 4:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: imagine a scenario where a person slams a door behind them...says to me "there's a fucking werewolf in there, we've gotta run!" - really believes it........and then just -lets- me open the door because I dared to smile and say "I don't believe you".
Only in the real life version of this hypothetical, we are able to repeatedly open the door and discover that the closet does not contain any of the properties associated with the concept of "werewolf", nor does it inspire anyone to run! The part that makes it all so damn absurd is...in reality, any person would not be able to maintain their warning or their fear after the door to the charade is swung open. And if they tried to revise their claim by assigning more abstract properties to the werewolf and why we should be afraid of it, they would be doing so from the inside of a loony-bin. The double standard we have for cognitive malfunctions like these is better left out of my attention, because it annoys the shit out of me when I think about it.
