risingthumb.xyz | Agora Zines | Webring | achtung | github | itch |

risingthumb.xyz install gentoo

Regarding the phrase "dude you're not an expert, you shouldn't be sharing these opinions"? #

You know those people who say "dude you're not an expert, you shouldn't be sharing these opinions"? There's a contradiction in this statement:

  1. To share your opinion that someone shouldn't be sharing their opinions because they are not an expert, applies to themselves as well. Thus they also assert they are an expert in when an opinion can be shared.
  2. A definition of expert must be reached- a definition that I think is as corrupted as the definition of "artist", which nowadays means "whoever I want".
  3. Thus, the statement is an appeal to authority to an ambiguous and poorly defined authority(2), and assertion of their own authority(1) which is again poorly defined(2).
  4. Thus, having multiple fallacies. I conclude that this statement is used exclusively by those who are in their heart bad faith. I also conclude the person had serious trauma as a kid that whipped them into subservience to authority- thus it's a point made by those who want to be slaves and want bondage.

Published on 2024/03/03

Articles from blogs I follow around the net

'No' as a Parenting Option

Jeppe (aka winther blog) is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Parenting”. Thanks, Jeppe, for hosting! It took me a while to find inspiration to write about this subject, as being a parent hasn’t been on my bucket list for a while no…

via andrei.xyz September 28, 2026

OLD MAUDE #7

EPISPASM In a deep sleep I fell / And the music starts to swell —Prince, And God Created Woman Chad didn't know. It all hit differently when he tried to explain it to his son. Maude was out of the picture and that was that. She was, however, still respo…

via I'm not really Stanley Lieber. September 26, 2026

For Christ's Sake or For Mine?

I recently had my world turned upside-down—or perhaps right-side up—from contemplating a work I had never read carefully: St. Seraphim of Sarov’s Conversation with Nicholas Motovilov. It is a well-known personal testimony of a man’s conversation with an or…

via Luke Smith's Webpage on Luke Smith September 25, 2026

Generated by openring