From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-06-05, x  wrote:   
      
   > The Devil will lie and say that he is God.   
   >   
   > Then scientists will lie and say that their false ideas   
   > are true ideas.   
   >   
   > The net result will be that no one will obtain benefit   
   > from having 'true' ideas because 'true' ideas will in   
   > fact be false.   
   >   
   > Then people will make up more false stuff because the   
   > new false stuff will be as untrue as the old false   
   > stuff.   
   >   
   > Then people will stop listening.  This would be   
   > based upon the idea that the lies are not worth   
   > knowing.   
      
   The internet has helped me mostly stop listening   
   by giving me the impression that most people are   
   lying most of the time.   
      
   One might say that I was blissfully ignorant of   
   that lying, pre-internet.   
      
   Now it appears most people are mostly arranging   
   words mostly for selfish personal benefit/gain   
   than to understand each other.   
      
   This civilization must fall hard in that scenario   
   so that perhaps it begins again with people mostly   
   ignorant of what the internet has revealed about   
   people.   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)