A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Most people I meet are stupid. Now, nobody likes to be labeled as stupid because they don__ want to know the truth about themselves, that they__e more useful dead than alive. The vast majority of those that meet me for the first time don__ believe that I__e worked as a College Professor, or that I make a living as a writer. In fact, many have stopped talking to me because they believe I make a living doing something illegal, something criminal. It__ easier for them to believe that I__ just a criminal, than to accept that I__ one of the most famous bestselling writers in the entire planet. The ones that reach the next level, will ask me if I belong to any secret organization, if I speak to demons or if I channel the dead, or even if I steal information from the internet and other authors. Now, what they can__ see, is that the more they talk such things, the more they show me their real nature. They are very, really very, stupid. They can__ see an elephant in front of their nose; they can__ see an intelligent human being in front of their face; they are indeed very stupid and that__ a fact, not an assumption.
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Most people I meet are stupid. Now, nobody likes to be labeled as stupid because they don__ want to know the truth about themselves, that they__e more useful dead than alive. The vast majority of those that meet me for the first time don__ believe that I__e worked as a College Professor, or that I make a living as a writer. In fact, many have stopped talking to me because they believe I make a living doing something illegal, something criminal. It__ easier for them to believe that I__ just a criminal, than to accept that I__ one of the most famous bestselling writers in the entire planet. The ones that reach the next level, will ask me if I belong to any secret organization, if I speak to demons or if I channel the dead, or even if I steal information from the internet and other authors. Now, what they can__ see, is that the more they talk such things, the more they show me their real nature. They are very, really very, stupid. They can__ see an elephant in front of their nose; they can__ see an intelligent human being in front of their face; they are indeed very stupid and that__ a fact, not an assumption.
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