Sam Harris

If someone says something, well, what about...

And then the thing they put at the end of that sentence is just a set of pseudo facts, right?

That you can't possibly authenticate or not in the span of that conversation.

They will, you know, whether it's about UFOs or anything else, right?

They will seem to make you look like an ignoramus when in fact, everything they're saying is specious, right?

Whether they know it or not.

I mean, there's some people who are just crazy.

There's some people who are

Who are just bullshitting and they're not even tracking whether it's true, it just feels good.

And then some people are consciously lying about things.

But the thing is, it's the truth.

place I'm familiar with doing this and not doing this is on specific conspiracies like 9-11 truth.

Because of what 9-11 did to my intellectual life, it sent me down a path for the better part of a decade.

I became a critic of religion

I don't know if I was ever going to be a critic of religion, right?

But it happened to be in my wheelhouse because I had spent so much time studying religion on my own.

And I was also very interested in the underlying spiritual concerns of every religion.

And so I was, you know...

I devoted more than a full decade of my life to just, you know, what is real here?

What is possible?