A professor of philosophy finishes a trick four piece puzzle from the character's childhood
Professor Agneto: Ah well that was easy! Twas a trick, putting the fourth piece in, as if you put the first three pieces together, the fourth won't fit because of the topological constraints put on the system by the the initial axioms.
Smart man: Prove it!
Professor Agneto: I'm sorry?
Smart man: I outright reject your claim on the basis that if you said something you must prove it and I will not listen to you to thus continue this conversation without respecting you as a person OR any of your ideas. And I will continue it in the only manner I know how: in a pseudorespectfully hostile manner!
Professor Agneto: Oh, I've had this conversation a billion times. There are a lotta you. No, the puzzle represents an axiomatic system, and what I'm saying is a continuation of the logic of Gödel's incompleteness theorom to complete it based on orthogonal relativity.
Smart man: I don't know what those words mean. Speak English, which I say respectfully and not to evoke any feelings of inferiority in you! Prove it!
Professor Agneto: Well, I can teach you these words. But the "proof" needs to be on you because what I'm describing is what the Buddha described about the entanglement process that creates the illusion of a self and more.
Smart Man: I will make no effort to understand anything you say. I'm just going to command, demand, and expect an explanation. Prove it!
Professor Agneto: Here's a literal science experiment you can do to prove that your intention results in the procedurally generation of your reality!
Smart Man: Reeeeeee! Prove it!
Professor Agneto: Now listen here, why are you wasting my time? I mean, I am creating content for my educational (f)art project designed to provoke people who cannot control themselves (eg: pedophiles), and I honestly cannot tell if you are trolling - you're indistinguishable from each other - so when you're ready to not be a buttsniff...
Mod: R00D! Be civilized!
Smart Man: Prove it!
Mod: This is the smartest person on our side. You will respect him or I'll be forced to cultivate our echo chamber.
Professor Agneto: Ah, well. All Knowledge comes from möbiation, as we all know from the second story of the Bible, assuming you've sinned and corrected it before to know what is objectively good as you observe how the four puzzle pieces that compose your "self" manage to fit together, which no one but you can do. Assuming you've meditated to know what a jhana is.
Smart Man: Prove it!
Pro Tip:
it's spelled S T R A W,
not S M A R T.
I can easily understand where your confusion may have come from, though, since M looks a lot like an upside down W and the two words have all the other letters (A, R, S, & T) in common.
Hope that helps :}
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But although I am otherwise unconvinced anyone who is smart would argue as this alleged "smart" person does, joking aside, I like what you've presented.
As a pejorative illustration of people who want to convince others that they are smart but are instead insufferably pedantic vapid contrarians whose entire breadth of knowledge can be accurately summed up as convoluted ways to say "NUH-UH!" and the rote regurgitation thereof, I think it's an appropriate parody of such people.
So, joking aside, I do in fact appreciate your humor here and this Professor Agneto's attempt to communicate in good faith with this individual stings with painful relatability. Even though I'm not particularly likely to give any stock to theologically derived "ancient wisdom", I think I'd actually like to read it anyway because it nevertheless constituted an earnest attempt humanity has made at understanding its own nature, and even if it turned out to have no legitimate insights of its own, it still says enough about the structure and quirks of human cognition that one may extract behavioral insights regarding the works' authors.
Or TLDR we're all trying to figure ourselves out and we all share a common fundamental neuroarchitecture (nominally, although everyone is at least a tiny bit divergent) and how we talk about the world can say more about us than it does about the world... And that's interesting on it's own!
Besides it might be neat if it gets me to consider stuff to angles i have not before!
So lemme embrace being something that doesn't consider itself a "smart" "man" and if you do indeed have those lore sources I'd actually be interested to look at them! You don't gotta prove anything to me though ;3
Here's the post this exchange happened in:
I am an educator in gnosis. You will believe this https://lemmy.world/post/45993307
Holy damn that's a wack comment section and post. Get help please.
But I just say that cuz YOU are the one that needs help, you idolter.
What do you believe in?
Why?
Oh, the boy can't help himself in the stimulus-response machine we are in that I started transcending twelve years ago.
It's CONSISTENT effort, EVERY DAY, that makes YOU what YOU don't hate.
I AM the help, cuz people like YOU judge the people who need help, but I know you can't help yourself.
This literally happened yesterday. Yes, I am strawmanning for pedagogical purposes, but there are many parts of this (Speak English and repetitively asking for proof while adding nothing to the discussion or trying to understand), and the mod response you know is true.
And what I can say to aid your enlightenment process is that there is a REASON Eve first gets Knowledge to give it to Adam in that story told via oral tradition for thousands of years to preserve information. There's two reasons, actually. The first is that our intuition will understand things before our rational mind, for the same reason you may better identify a picture with 50% of random pixels loaded than just the first half loaded linearly, like an old computer on the early internet loading a picture.
Secondly, women have better verbal and communication skills than men, statistically, and the reason we engineered our culture to keep people at a sixth grade reading level is because the specific wording of the Bible is written at an eighth grade reading level, y'know 13/14, the age girls started to have immaculate conceptions in ancient Rome. Thus, now you know we have intentionally engineered our culture to control people who cannot think for themselves whilst guiding those waking up to the matrix into the occult, which is a word in the occident that just means "hidden."
We ABSOLUTELY have Knowledge about the nature of the simulation we are not IN, but rather ARE. We are monads in a monadic nodal communication system, y'know, Server, Client, Holy Internet, which Indra's Web/Net also encapsulates this wisdom.
I'm adding this picture to show something in Revelation 22:15. It does NOT say "...and everyone who loves TO practice lying," which goes hand in hand with how a dog is an obedient thing not standing in its full power, and the etymology of "sorcerer" involves casting lots, which is in the Bible 47 times, because we have Knowledge of the simulation and thus Know nothing is actually random, and thus we created a police state headed by literally God to surround the sinners.
I'll go find the post where my comments got removed.