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I'm drawn to saying controversial things because I think they shouldn't be controversial. I'm mad that people get furious over true things because of external implications that they see as bad. I want to keep saying true things for the sheer point of being able to say them.

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How do you distinguish your desire for truth from grifting? Saying controversial things is bound to bring you a lot of attention, and I'm guessing like me, you have some egoic parts that are always hungry for more of that.

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yeah; i've been introspecting on that part of me. I think it comes from an anger that people are angry at me, and trying to say innocent things to make them angry to demonstrate that they're wrong for getting angry.

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Richard D. Bartlett

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Why is it important to classify the bad people as bad?

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I don't understand

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Richard D. Bartlett

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You're doing all this work "to demonstrate that they're wrong for getting angry". Why is important for you to show that these people are wrong?

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