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Aswad -> RE: Indoctrination (12/8/2012 3:24:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
And therein lies the problem of your god-like self delusions.
No, actually, therein lies simple recognition of the fact that my thoughts don't work in a very normal way, a fact that's been established by others than myself, at that. And, to go with the evidence thing, it's been established by scientifically sound experiments and repeated for confirmation. Such doesn't constitute a "god-like self delusion", but you're welcome to discount science, of course.
As a very basic, simple and down to earth example, in primary/elementary school, I considered it self evident that Germanic strong verbs are conjugated by ablaut, and that the pattern is regular, which nobody else agreed with, and the teacher objected strongly to it, insisting that these must be memorized instead of learning the pattern. Later, it was confirmed to me that my original observation was correct and well known among linguists; indeed, the conjugation pattern is wholly conserved in Norwegian and its dialects. It allowed me to accurately conjugate dialectal forms I hadn't encountered back in grade 4 or so, while none of my peers learned to do this until grade 9, and then only a few.
When you recognize a pattern instinctively, it's self-evident to you. When you don't see it, but can be shown that it exist, it isn't self-evident to you, but neither is it self-evidently absent to you. When you can't even be shown the pattern, it is self-evidently absent to you. The trick is to remember that there will always be some people to whom the patterns you see will not be visible, and some people that see patterns which aren't visible to you, and of course that for all of us there will be some patterns we see that are actually illusory.
I know people that make me seem like an idiot child; so, no, not particularly god-like, and your posited delusion is false.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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