[split] Knowing that you cannot know

[Sacred Fool]

 
If you want my opinion, Patrick, read on.

I think you're making things way too complex.  You can just call it a simple case of confirmation bias and walk on.  You wanted to believe "X", you arranged your thoughts to support this and you fought to make it so until the end.

With that pattern of ideation in mind, now take a look at a few threads on these forums and see if that's not a pattern which endlessly repeats.  I confess my bias, you offer yours, we arrange our thoughts to support these....on and on.

A person posts about "Y."  Another confirms it, another denies it.........all mainly based upon pre-existing bias while maybe not so much thought actually occurs.

I'm not saying this is all that happens here.  I'm just pointing out that your clownish episode was nothing original....said the other Fool.