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Comment author: cousin_it 14 April 2009 10:16:26AM *  4 points [-]

What can be destroyed by truth, deserves to be.

Can you prove that statement, or is it an article of faith? Imagine a scientist about to make a world-changing discovery (like penicillin) suddenly learning something awful about his past (like Oedipus) and killing himself.

After all, if I can't lay bare my soul in here, then it means that there's either a problem with the soul, either a problem with the place, or both.

Definitely a problem with the place. The world is the wrong place to bare one's soul.

One either believes in men, or do not.

"I don't believe anything. Gets in the way of learning." If you believe in men, there's definitely some learning coming.