[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

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It's peculiar in the same way pursuit of real understanding of reality is peculiar to those who find happy delusion entirely sufficient for the small wish thinking life that looks for nothing bigger, better founded or more substantial.

It doesn’t actually follow, its hard to think that when you’re referring to freedom here, that you’re speaking of an acceptance of a particular set of scientific or historical facts about reality. I doubt you would present me a series of peer reviewed scientific studies, and imply that if I accepted them, I would obtain the sort of “freedom” you’re referring to.

This peculiar freedom reminds me of the verse “the truth shall set you free”. Some like Nietzsche would suggest that your belief in a liberating truth, is inherited from Christianity, but I think you believe this because there is some truth to it, one that you recognize at some level but don’t understand.

In the acquisition of some set of scientific and historic truths did you gain this freedom? It doesn’t look like it.

I repeat it for the purpose of making it clear just what contortion and willful self deception your ilk go through to derive an ultimately sterile comfort from the morally sickening.

You seem to be saying this more for yourself than for me, you have some need to believe this, more so than out of some sort of empathetic desire to get me to recognize my condition. Is this the nature of the freedom you’re trying to sell us on? It doesn’t look very free. In fact it sounds rather out of touch with the reality here, consistent with lack of clarity in introspection common among delusions.