No, green ink covers a much wider span of writing than that. And honestly, no matter what disagreements you find yourself having with a group of people, and this would include circumstances where you were the only rationalist in a room full of crystal healers, you should never find yourself uttering the phrase “I am someone not in the thrall of the prevailing reality distortion field”.
I think that is just a difference of personalities.
If I am in a region where there’s a reality distortion field in action, I don’t necessarily avoid pointing that out for the sake of everyone’s feelings—or for some other reason.
That would let the participants continue in their trance—and that might not be good for them, or others they interact with.
You can point something out, but it is an act of petty sabotage to repeat the same statements over and over again with no apparent effect but to irritation of the public. Even if you are in fact right, and the other guys are lunatics.
No, green ink covers a much wider span of writing than that. And honestly, no matter what disagreements you find yourself having with a group of people, and this would include circumstances where you were the only rationalist in a room full of crystal healers, you should never find yourself uttering the phrase “I am someone not in the thrall of the prevailing reality distortion field”.
Um—why not?
I think that is just a difference of personalities.
If I am in a region where there’s a reality distortion field in action, I don’t necessarily avoid pointing that out for the sake of everyone’s feelings—or for some other reason.
That would let the participants continue in their trance—and that might not be good for them, or others they interact with.
You can point something out, but it is an act of petty sabotage to repeat the same statements over and over again with no apparent effect but to irritation of the public. Even if you are in fact right, and the other guys are lunatics.
Hi, Vladimir! I don’t know what you are talking about, why you are bothering to say it—and nor do I much care.