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Note that the timestamp was about 3 AM on New Year's for me; I'm glad I didn't post anything sillier given the circumstances.
Also, the hypothetical lunatic doesn't desire to believe ze's insane, just that marble tomato cheese brain. Ze isn't capable of making that further inference.
Maybe actually not, but ze should, hence the litany.
The reason the litany helps people in general is that we really do want, upon reflection, to believe true things rather than false ones. I'm not sure that holds for lunatics.
I'm also tapping out, unless this conversation takes a more comical turn again.