>>511210659
Religion is the midwit position—smart enough to ask big questions about existence, not smart enough to accept uncertainty or pursue rigorous answers. Hunter-gatherers had no cognitive bandwidth for gods due to survival demands. Religion emerged when agricultural surplus created mental leisure time, making metaphysical speculation a luxury belief system for people wealthy enough to philosophize but not sophisticated enough to recognize they're just making comfortable lies to avoid existential anxiety.

>>17819694
Yup, Aquinas (their greatest philosopher that they’ve never actually read) is just spouting circular logic in Summa Theologica.

>>17809866
low iq stream of consciousness slop

The chasm between belief and knowledge runs deeper than most recognize. Knowledge emerges from direct encounter—the burn of flame against skin, the weight of stone in hand, the demonstrable outcome of rigorous inquiry. It requires no defense because it needs none; reality validates itself through immediate experience or verifiable demonstration.

Belief, however, operates as knowledge's imposter. It masquerades as certainty while remaining fundamentally derivative—borrowed from authorities, inherited through culture, or constructed from emotional need rather than encountered truth. This wouldn't matter if belief acknowledged its provisional nature, but it rarely does. Instead, it crystallizes into conviction, demanding the same reverence as knowledge while lacking knowledge's foundation.

The crucial distinction lies not in their respective certainties, but in their relationship to inquiry. Knowledge welcomes examination because scrutiny only confirms what already stands firm. Belief, by contrast, must fortify itself against doubt, building elaborate justifications to protect what cannot withstand direct investigation. These defensive structures—doctrines, rationalizations, appeals to faith—become more important than the truth they supposedly guard.

When belief mistakes itself for knowledge, it commits a double error: it stops seeking what it thinks it has already found, and it treats provisional understanding as final truth. This transforms what should remain fluid and open to revision into something rigid and closed. True knowledge never fears displacement by deeper understanding, while belief often cannot survive even gentle questioning.

The path forward requires distinguishing between what we actually know through direct encounter and what we merely believe through inheritance or assumption—a distinction as essential as it is rare.

Belief is the crutch of the midwit—too insecure to admit ignorance, too dim to see clearly, and too arrogant to shut up. The low-IQ person may not be articulate, but they live in raw contact with reality: they know what hurts, what works, what’s real. They don’t waste time constructing narratives to protect fragile egos. On the other end, the truly intelligent see through belief entirely—they know that belief is what people cling to when they lack direct understanding. The midwit floats in a limbo of secondhand thought, parroting books, institutions, and authorities, desperately stitching together a worldview that sounds smart but means nothing. Belief is their armor—because deep down, they know they don’t know.

This is why midwits foam at the mouth when their beliefs are challenged. They confuse memorization for wisdom, consensus for reality, and doubt for danger. They preach facts like dogma and mistake complexity for depth. But they’ve never actually seen—they’ve only assembled. Their beliefs are defense mechanisms, not insights.

The low-IQ doesn’t pretend to know, and the high-IQ doesn’t need to pretend.

>>17780576
It's just beyond your midwit mind.

>>17778807
>npc: logically there must be a first mover
>why?
>npc: >:(

>>24481664
yeah, because /lit/ is full of midwits who need faith to come with a manual and footnotes. christianity is the perfect midwit belief—full of endless justifications, rituals, and debates to keep the fragile convinced they’re “deep” while really just avoiding the emptiness. real belief doesn’t need a wiki; midwit faith comes with a study guide.

it's the most elaborate dead-end ever constructed by midwits, it’s not deep, it’s not rational, and it doesn’t bring anyone closer to truth. it’s a linguistic maze built on circular logic, where centuries of “thinkers” endlessly redefine contradictions to keep the delusion alive. entire lives are wasted crafting metaphysical fanfiction about a sky tyrant no one has seen, felt, or proven, just so fragile egos can feel like they’re part of some cosmic plan. it’s not inquiry, it’s cope with footnotes.

it pretends to offer answers, but it’s just wordy fear management for people who can’t accept not knowing. rather than confront reality’s brutal indifference, the midwit theologian builds a towering palace of nonsense to keep the void at bay, books, arguments, definitions, all to defend an idea that can’t survive without obedience and fear.

it’s pure midwit cope to always need a reason for faith like it’s good for society or keeps people moral. that’s not belief it’s fear dressed up as intellect. they can’t surrender to the madness of real faith and they can’t detach enough to reject it outright so they sit in the safe middle pretending their cowardice is wisdom. they don’t care about truth or god they care about order and comfort. they don’t believe they believe in believing and that’s the most gutless position of all.

it's the most elaborate dead-end ever constructed by midwits—it’s not deep, it’s not rational, and it doesn’t bring anyone closer to truth. it’s a linguistic maze built on circular logic, where centuries of “thinkers” endlessly redefine contradictions to keep the delusion alive. entire lives are wasted crafting metaphysical fanfiction about a sky tyrant no one has seen, felt, or proven—just so fragile egos can feel like they’re part of some cosmic plan. it’s not inquiry, it’s cope with footnotes.

it pretends to offer answers, but it’s just wordy fear management for people who can’t accept not knowing. rather than confront reality’s brutal indifference, the midwit theologian builds a towering palace of nonsense to keep the void at bay—books, arguments, definitions—all to defend an idea that can’t survive without obedience and fear.

it’s pure midwit cope to always need a reason for faith like it’s good for society or keeps people moral. that’s not belief it’s fear dressed up as intellect. they can’t surrender to the madness of real faith and they can’t detach enough to reject it outright so they sit in the safe middle pretending their cowardice is wisdom. they don’t care about truth or god they care about order and comfort. they don’t believe they believe in believing and that’s the most gutless position of all.