I always like to ask myself "so once I have tricked myself into thinking I have understood or learned something, what benefit do I get?"...I always get the same answer: "no benefit from being programmed to belief something". I'd rather stay free from beliefs and ideas and so stay mentally and physically free. To me, to 'under-stand' something is to stand under informational belief and be a slave to it. So I take no information seriously and only entertain it for fun.
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