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MayReasonRule

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16. Notice How Much Work The Word 'Believe' Is Doing In Those Statements

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 11:59 AM

Thursday

Belief is the willing suspension of critical thinking and the simultaneous embrace of mere supposition as fact, i.e. the embrace of delusion.

Delusion always gives birth to further delusion in order to sustain the original delusions.

Always.

This. Is. That.

Here's to the restoration of our freedoms through the defeat of delusional beliefs through our nation returning to Reason's rule.

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