Yeah, there's room for discussion when the other party is willing to at least entertain the possibility their own mind is not the sole arbiter of absolute objective truth. Yud.... seems pretty unwilling to entertain the possibility his own mind is not the sole arbiter of absolute objective truth.

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and he has a lot of followers who have basically zero swerve from doctrine

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the thing is if i think you believe in something random, idk, haskell because it has good aura and you're influenced by a strong mentor, it is usually not a total waste of my time to discuss the merits or demerits of haskell with you and then there's this, where uh

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"If I pretend I'm not motivated by social forces, the social forces motivating my behavior just Disappear, right?" and other things believed by careless people.

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yeah at a certain point the correct reply to most of this, for me, became "you guys are in a cult and should leave your cult"

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