Whomever is pulling these: are you at all able to troll a little and ask people to post their motivational success stories about getting their loans canceled, getting money from the state, etc?
I am pulling them myself. Sometimes I give them benignly bad advice, like telling them they all have to send their paperwork with a fox stamp on it, and they believe it.
Wait wait… I know nothing about the GWoC. Are they wrong about the direction the defenses facing, and the side the stairs are on? Of they aren’t, why is this “insane Facebook?”
I’m totally ignorant about the Wall, or about the famous sections of it.
Part of the problem is that the pictures they’re showing were of part of the wall that was built in the middle ages during the Ming Dynasty, but other parts of the wall were nearly 1000 years old when that part was being built.
I did see that there’s not one Great Wall, but there is the “famous” section that all tourists seem to visit and walk, and which generates the most photos. This is the section in the Facebook post, yah? Are they right about the directions, and if so, what’s the explanation for it?
I’d say, because making the leap to “the mongol hordes built the wall” is pretty insane, when there’s many much simpler explanations? Because the idea of keeping “who actually made this incredibly long wall” a secret is nutty? Because if they were going to spend a ton of time and effort to try and pass it off as them making it, to the point there’s no records or even tales to the contrary, you would think they would have done something as obvious as moving the stairs to their side of the wall. There’s like no level at which this makes any sense. Good on you for being skeptical though
I think many people are confusing the meaning of “rational”. In the context of philosophy and other related fields, it has a very specific meaning and the thing that you are asking is actually empirical in nature when in the context of those fields. But the belief in those empirical evidence being rational stems from the lack of knowledge on the philosophical side of things so if you really are looking for an answer in good faith, then a discussion is possible as otherwise it is indeed an insanity trying to convince someone that will not accept others definition from a different field.
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