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by Scorvkent. . 6 reads.

What To Do When You Can't Unknow What You Know: A Guide

What do you do if a thought is bothering you endlessly, because it is true as far as you know, but you would really prefer not to know it?

Publish it!

If there's anything that you can't unknow, publish it freely.

Science is the shared reality that can be tested and verified by many people. God is the hidden reality that is presumed to be perfect and eternal. If you can't unknow something, but you're keeping it to God, you're not creating the opportunity for it to be tested. If you're suffering because you "know" something that appears potentially untrue, unlearning it will require the generation and acknowledgment of contrary evidence. You probably aren't creating the opportunity for that contrary evidence to be generated if you speak only to the connections you want to keep forever, and even if you are creating such an opportunity you can almost always create a better such opportunity by exposing the unthinkable into our most shared reality. All of this advice still holds even if you're very confident that your unwanted knowledge is true, because if you're suffering on the basis that you would rather unknow something true and awful, the only way to someday unlearn a true and awful thing is have it fixed and removed from the future. Those fixes require large efforts in shared reality, which is to say they require Science!

God can become very powerful when people conspire together and maintain their hatreds loyally, but the power of concealed perfect truth is far better at creating true and awful things than it is at fixing them. Science can build with integrity what loyalists can only endeavor to achieve through corruption.

Scorvkent

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