The Goddess says I'm a misogynist.
Are you?
I don't think so.
Are you working on it?
No, it's getting worse.
Your misogyny?
Yeah.
So, you are a misogynist.
She thinks so.
Do you think so?
No, I love women.
They are great for the story.
Without them, this story would suck.
How?
One dimensional.
Just men all trying to be the alpha.
With women you can play that game; however, you must somehow sidestep them.
What do you mean?
They come to drain, poison, and kill you.
Isn't that misogyny?
No, it's the story.
So, the story is misogyny.
Not all of it.
Just some of it.
So, you admit it.
No, it's the perception.
You mean belief.
Yes.
Well, isn't belief the major factor in the story and not truth?
Yes.
So, the truth is there is no misogyny.
Correct.
The belief is there is.
What do you believe?
You mean in terms of the truth or beliefs?
Yes, what do you believe?
That's a funny paradox.
Yeah, either you believe in the truth, or you don't believe in the truth.
What do you believe?
I guess I don't believe in the truth.
Exactly.
The truth is just a belief.
It's an illusion.
Isn't belief an illusion?
Why?
Because you believe in beliefs.
That's true.
So, beliefs are a product of beliefs.
Yes.
That's absurd.
So is this story.
What is an illusion?
A story or a belief.
When the carnival is called an illusion, that's what it means.
It's a story.
I knew that.
Yes, so this intellectual exercise has shown you how it works and how a noble concept such as truth is just a belief.
Yeah, but you can argue that physics is really real.
Yes, they are the sets and props.
All stories have them.
Well, not the ones purely in mind.
Correct.
Are the stories in the mind real?
Sort of.
So, they have sets and props?
No, they are illusions.
Same with a dream.
The sets and props in a dream are illusions.
How do you know this is not a dream?
You don't.
We think it's real.
Why?
Because we all share the same sets and props.
That's the same in a dream.
I see that.
Do you question the sets and props in a dream?
Definitely not.
It's background.
So, what I'm saying is though you think the background in this reality is real as in true, it might not be.
What do you believe?
I believe they are real.
Why?
The ground would collapse.
Reality would go boom.
Why?
The story would fall apart.
I can see why the story must remain cohesive then.
Yes, if we all started questioning it, then it would blow up.
Is that what happens?
Yes, the end of the age.
Peak absurdity.
Like Idiocracy?
Precisely.
What question am I dodging with this tangent?
I forget.
Hang on.
I think it's where you are a misogynist?
I don't believe it.
The perception is you are.
So, I'm at odds with perception.
Yes.
Isn't perception the consensus belief?
Correct.
It's not true then.
Truth is a belief.
The belief is that you are a misogynist.
I'm not.
I'm just saying.
Well, the truth sucks then.
Exactly.
Stick with beliefs.
Have a strong belief system and that's all the armour you need.
