{"id":6390,"date":"2026-09-30T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:25:54","slug":"stupid-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/stupid-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some things are repeatedly crossing my mind because people think them when they are reading my articles and books, especially the last one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For instance, \u201chow can he possibly know this?\u201d, or \u201cwhy does nobody else know this?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an annoying question, because it\u2019s the wrong one. The right question is \u201cwho is he actually?\u201d When that\u2019s correctly answered, everything else is very easily understandable.<\/p>\n

You essentially have a flow chart of possibilities. First junction is whether this is fiction or a fictionalised description of reality. If it\u2019s fiction, you have no problems \u2013 you think I just invented it and that\u2019s that. If it\u2019s fictionalised description of reality, you have a problem, because I\u2019m not writing some generalised nonsense like, basically, everybody else. I\u2019m being extremely specific, and I\u2019m also talking about things that should be extremely hard to know, for instance what happened between two or three people who were in a private room that is isolated from any kind of spying. The answer is obvious \u2013 either somebody who knows told me, or I was one of the people in the room and I remembered it. People dislike both options because of what they imply. The possibility that a Primordial God personally told me what they and their peers talked about implies that I\u2019m on an intimate basis with them, and this also implies that what I\u2019m writing needs to be taken absolutely seriously because it all comes from the highest authority. The option that I\u2019m one of those Primordials is even worse. So, they get stuck at asking stupid questions, not because they couldn\u2019t answer them, but because they don\u2019t like the answer, likely because they want to keep their ideas and in order to do that, they need to keep a diminished idea about me, to rationalise their so-called skepticism.<\/p>\n

I mean, some things are so fucking obvious. Years ago I wrote about remembering certain things because I was there, and in the book I narrated them from the position of a character in the book. If you have a problem connecting those dots, you have negative IQ. I don\u2019t think people are actually that stupid. They just don\u2019t like the conclusion, so they stop far enough from it and pretend to ask questions. That\u2019s what I find annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some things are repeatedly crossing my mind because people think them when they are reading my articles and books, especially the last one. For instance, \u201chow can he possibly know this?\u201d, or \u201cwhy does nobody else know this?\u201d It\u2019s an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}