(September 5, 2019 at 5:24 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: There does seem to be a conspicuous tendency to passing scattershot superficiality and obscurantism off as erudition.Good strategy, no?
Beat around the bush, make it seem like you have some knowledge or education that the other party lacks, avoid giving any real answers to simple questions and feign intellectual superiority because you're clearly so much smarter than everyone else in the room.
Voila.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.