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What is meant by "contagion with opposing postulates"?

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supreme:
In the TROM book we read:


--- Quote ---Conflicting postulates are called a game. The purpose of a
game is to have fun. All conflicting postulates are essentially a
game, though it may be called other things. Due to contagion
with opposing postulates all games tend to reduce the ability
of the being to postulate.
--- End quote ---

What is meant by contagion with opposing postulates?

Peter McLaughlin:
Contagion with opposing postulates happens all the time.  The school system is designed to produce “good “ citizens who go to work and pay taxes because it is the right thing to do.  But if you see that the government is corrupt then paying taxes is the wrong thing to do.
A kid falls in love with a certain girl but she rejects him and he decides he is no good.
A team has a loosing season and decides that they are second rate players.

All of these are contagion by opposing postulates. Life is full of them.

Pete

Gone Fabian:
The silly thing is that the overwhelmed person does not really copy the postulate of the other.
He instead makes his own postulate that can be similar or very different.

The girl might reject a guy because he is not at all the tall and dark movie star type, and she already has a secret lover.
But the rejected guy might decide he is a loser as he always goes broke and cannot afford expensive bikes.

Most people create their own weird reasons for those bad things happening   :-\

Karalee:

--- Quote from: Peter McLaughlin on December 29, 2017, 05:40:38 pm ---Contagion with opposing postulates happens all the time.  The school system is designed to produce “good “ citizens who go to work and pay taxes because it is the right thing to do.  But if you see that the government is corrupt then paying taxes is the wrong thing to do.
A kid falls in love with a certain girl but she rejects him and he decides he is no good.
A team has a loosing season and decides that they are second rate players.

All of these are contagion by opposing postulates. Life is full of them.

Pete

--- End quote ---


Like when I make optimistic conjectures only to be automatically countered with negativity over and over again, until I "learn".   :)

Cory:
Imo it means that two people who have opposing views collide and become contaminiated with one another if they communicate disagreement. Even if by means of communication one player decides to agree with the oppenents postulate anout something the original postulate he had then became contaminated or in other words it changed his original idea from one to another. For example, He loved bread but someone said there is arsenic in it and he doesn't like arsenic because its poison and thus his postuale changed and he doesnt eat bread because of the opponents view.

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