I can’t tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he’s trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
To be the devil’s advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don’t ask me, I’m a gamer
A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.
I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.
RIght! What kid didn’t jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape…, then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that…
There’s lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn’t move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn’t test what he said it did.
I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn’t test what he’s trying to test. Or at least, doesn’t test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there’s a lot of grey area in between “This one guy’s beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality” and “naive realism is true”.
What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I’m really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.
Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn’t believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I’m not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
Couldn’t you test this by having someone attempt to use a fake radio believing it’s real?
I mean if that were true, wouldn’t ANY air plane work? Wouldn’t it be impossible to improve on the design of airplanes if it’s all belief?
It’s not all belief, and I’m not saying it’s all belief. I’m saying the laws of physics that appear to us through our senses are actually laws of psychology. But they are still laws. I believe we have a better chance of understanding them and building technology to overcome them if we use both physics and psychology at once on the problem. But deception and self-delusion are not especially powerful psychological techniques, so I would not expect them to work very well in this situation.
I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There’s a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.
This kind of a note is also one of the very first things you see in Divinity: Original Sin. I just started playing the game for the first time last night and got a chuckle out of that.
EDIT: It appears that another party has published the contents of my journal before me, currently with a resounding 15 upvotes. I believe this previous poster is a farce. A Telvanni spy sent to ridicule my work.
“I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.”
When there’s a smile in your heart
There’s no better time to start
Think of all the joy you’ll find
When you leave the world behind
And bid your cares goodbye
You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
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I can’t tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he’s trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
I don’t seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he’s said, it’s usually some vacuous nonsense like this.
To be the devil’s advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don’t ask me, I’m a gamer
You’re most likely right, but didn’t he also say that it’s gay for a man to sleep with a woman for enjoyment?
Ancient Greek Philosophy has entered the chat
literal basic straightness is gay???
A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single pilot in the world
To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single
pilotprecipice in the worldI believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.
I’m pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.
I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.
RIght! What kid didn’t jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape…, then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that…
Just flying with a paraglider is fucking amazing. I bet this moron never even tried that. Twenty hours + theory exam and you’re good to go.
🤌
Oh shit, I thought that was a LinkedIn Lunatic post and was searching for the next part.
I remember when New Age sold me on Idealism.
Here’s the thing. It’s bullshit.
History has many examples of men who fell to their deaths believing God would stop the fall.
One of them was actually a guy who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Claimed he’d miraculously fly on a donkey.
Fell right off the cliff and debunked his whole religion he did.
Darwin Awards in action.
I bet he knew, but at that point he’d talked himself into a corner with his followers and had no choice but to jump or face the shame.
Wish Trump had the balls to feel shame
Actually, I’m going to offer a counterargument.
There’s lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn’t move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn’t test what he said it did.
I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn’t test what he’s trying to test. Or at least, doesn’t test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there’s a lot of grey area in between “This one guy’s beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality” and “naive realism is true”.
What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I’m really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.
Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn’t believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I’m not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.
I don’t actually believe in airplanes, I think they’re just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.
Couldn’t you test this by having someone attempt to use a fake radio believing it’s real?
I mean if that were true, wouldn’t ANY air plane work? Wouldn’t it be impossible to improve on the design of airplanes if it’s all belief?
It’s not all belief, and I’m not saying it’s all belief. I’m saying the laws of physics that appear to us through our senses are actually laws of psychology. But they are still laws. I believe we have a better chance of understanding them and building technology to overcome them if we use both physics and psychology at once on the problem. But deception and self-delusion are not especially powerful psychological techniques, so I would not expect them to work very well in this situation.
Nah, you just need enough faith to see that he actually flew.
I heard that it’s easier if you start from the top of a high building so you have time to get a feel for the air.
“All those guys at the bottom are losers. Let me show you!”
Wingsuits and gliders are the ways people fly.
My parents made me wings from scraps of wood and fabric and I’d run along the sidewalk trying to take off.
It never worked though.
My elementary school classmate Seth did this, he wound up with a broken leg. Although he did hedge his bets with an umbrella, maybe that ruined it.
Shockingly common story.
My paraglider says otherwise
I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There’s a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.
Landing safely is just survivor bias. No dead parachutist ever reported a failed parachute.
Bruh last time I tried to fly…it went fine? I got on a plane and flew. Eat shit sex pest.
Go on Andrew you can do it we all believe in you, try it right now and show the haters!
Wait… you guys can’t fly ?
This kind of a note is also one of the very first things you see in Divinity: Original Sin. I just started playing the game for the first time last night and got a chuckle out of that.
Great game btw
And so he plans to try reallw hard now? I wouldn’t want to stop him…
EDIT: It appears that another party has published the contents of my journal before me, currently with a resounding 15 upvotes. I believe this previous poster is a farce. A Telvanni spy sent to ridicule my work.
“I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.
If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.
The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.”
there’s a special word for people trying to make someone else fly; defenestration
I do believe that requires an open window in the vicinity as well.
Doesn’t strictly have to be open, though that will make it easier.
Can’t you just throw someone off a cliff, and then throw a window after them?
Uh, yeah I tried. I jumped off my roof with cardboard attached to my arms and flapped. It didn’t work. 😔
90% of people quit RIGHT before they learn to fly.
When I was really young I was very confused as to why my plastic shopping bag always seemed to fail as a parachute. Reckoned I needed more height.
Bet it made you a legend tho, right?
Distasteful Tate repost aside, this is extremely similar to the first note you encounter as a player in Divinity: Original Sin.
I have researched it and come to the conclusion I don’t have enough money. Take to the seas instead like Neptune intended!
I tried as a kid when a hurricane hit (it had run out of water by then so it was safe)
Many people did. Now there are living in Toulouse.
When there’s a smile in your heart There’s no better time to start Think of all the joy you’ll find When you leave the world behind And bid your cares goodbye You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
Key and peele are prophets.
Maybe he meant an airplane when he asked how many have tried to fly?
Well, did he write this before or after having his head kicked in?
You just need to push your ki downwards like in dragon ball and you can fly
Birds are not real. They are government spy drones. Lockdown was to recharge their batteries! (sarcasm obviously dont ban me please)
Everyone can fly. Not everyone can land.
Does Andrew not know about Airplanes or has he being trying to fly like Goku?
Ive flown like a hundred times in my life as an average schmuck, what is this idiot talking about?