(June 28, 2023 at 10:13 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(June 28, 2023 at 3:25 am)emjay Wrote: I'm sorry but he always came across as sincere to me, misguided, but sincere. He was certainly devout. Bulshittery because of delusion... ie pretzel logic, confirmation bias, mental gymnastics etc is one thing... but outright lying is quite another, and I have no reason to think he did. Indeed I vaguely remember a few of us having a Skype chat with him once and him offering to show us around his premises, so I personally have no doubt he has a business. Did he exaggerate the details of it?, maybe, who knows, but outright lie about it I sorely doubt. Likewise if a theist claims they were cured of some illness by God, it's not them having an illness that I doubt, but their attribution of the cure to God. And especially if having had such illness is obviously formative in their very belief system in the first place, that again gives me less reason to doubt.
Drich’s “sincerity” is indistinguishable from the very great sincerity of a con artist’s desire to screw you over, or the very great sincerity of a fraudster’s wish that his fraud will not be discovered. He so sincerely wants to be taken to be your path to his god that he will say literally anything so long as whatever he says appears to him to make your more likely believe him. His undoing stems from how unbelievably much he consistently underestimated his own incompetence in lying.
Okay, not much more I can say then is there. Agree to differ.
