Article ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams is taking Pascal’s bet

[Magical Realist]

LOL Me not answering stupid questions tells you nothing. You're as ignorant as you've always been.

[Syne]

You trying that hard to convince me... or yourself?
Yes, asking questions is how you remedy ignorance. I have no idea what you think those words mean.

[Magical Realist]

You trying that hard to convince me... or yourself?

Paranoid much? Convince you of what?

[Syne]

That your inability and defensiveness to answering tells us nothing. Geez, no wonder you don't what to have an actual discussion. You'd have to be able to keep up with it first.

[Magical Realist]

That your inability and defensiveness to answering tells us nothing.

You simply don't have the right to sidetrack the discussion with childish gotcha attempts. That's not how discussion works. If you can't discuss without doing that, that's on you. Stay ignorant then. Nobody's interested in what you have to say.

[Syne]

... still deflecting. 9_9

Deflecting in conversation is a psychological tactic to shift focus, blame, or responsibility away from oneself, often to avoid vulnerability, criticism, or accountability, manifesting as changing the subject, turning questions back on the asker, blame-shifting, or making excuses, which can damage trust but also serves as a defense mechanism to protect self-image or avoid emotional discomfort.
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In psychology, deflection is a defense mechanism where someone shifts focus, blame, or responsibility away from themselves to avoid uncomfortable feelings like shame or guilt, often by changing the subject, making excuses, attacking, or turning the issue back onto the accuser, thereby preventing self-reflection and emotional growth.
- Google AI

[confused2]

Scott Adams!

Dilbert is now pay-to-view .. a few bits still around though..

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https://www.christopherrandallnicholson....t-as-a-kid

[Yazata]

Scott Adams died this morning...

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[C C]

Scott Adams died this morning...

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And the celebrated, esteemed writer/artist is now...

(1) Basking peacefully in the "absence of everything" (including himself missing).

(2) Receiving admittance to the Good Place, or (goodness forbid) the opposite stratum, but unable to report back.

(3): Incrementally rising from the "absence of everything" to the commencement of another phenomenal continuum (different life experience in this world).

(4) "I've rejoined the cosmopsychism god identity that fundamentally pervades the universe!"

(5): "Release me from this sleep chamber! The video game to brain simulation has ended, but some idiot locked the mechanism for getting out!"

(6) Scott Adams is still alive, just not here in the present and beyond this point.

Roger Penrose: I remember thinking in this kind of way when my mother died. In some sense, she was still there because her existence is still out there in spacetime, although in our time she is not alive. A colleague of mine had a son who died in tragic circumstances and I presented this idea to him, and it helped his understanding also. This was before I heard that Einstein had a colleague died, and he wrote to the man's wife that Bessa was still out there, and that somehow this was reassuring. I certainly think this way often, that spacetime is laid out and that things in the past and things in the future are out there still. [four-dimensionalism]

[Magical Realist]

Oh Jesus will be there alright. A very advanced spiritual soul like Buddha and Gandhi though and little more. They'll probably all have a good laugh while sipping chalices of golden ambrosia. Scott will amuse them with doodles on cocktail napkins.