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Your emotions are the fire - they create the weapons you will use on your journey.
The cool thing about that is that emotions don’t have to be right or wrong or “make sense”. You get to play with them and feel them. When someone really offends or hurts you, you have the power to not hold anything against them by turning the attention towards yourself.
You are significant so your emotions are interesting. There’s so much to explore there. You get to hold space for yourself. See what kinds of fire burn in you. The stronger the fire, the more powerful. Handle cautiously.
Even when a friend makes your feelings about condemning your offender, realize the time and space is being taken away from you.
It’s all about you. Accommodate for what is going on inside you. Give it all the attention it needs, and then some.
No need to turn your attention to the other person. It’s all about you.
Your emotions are the fire - they create the weapons you will use on your journey.
The cool thing about that is that emotions don’t have to be right or wrong or “make sense”. You get to play with them and feel them. When someone really offends or hurts you, you have the power to not hold anything against them by turning the attention towards yourself.
You are significant so your emotions are interesting. There’s so much to explore there. You get to hold space for yourself. See what kinds of fire burn in you. The stronger the fire, the more powerful. Handle cautiously.
Even when a friend makes your feelings about condemning your offender, realize the time and space is being taken away from you.
It’s all about you. Accommodate for what is going on inside you. Give it all the attention it needs, and then some.
No need to turn your attention to the other person. It’s all about you.
Example 1 - on Dec 27, those emotions came from another realm. They do not belong to this world. You can tell just by the magnitude of their power. They forged your capacity to see the Central Dogma of Self Esteem : You are enough just because you exist. The Passion Forging Station is on the move!
Example 2 - Anger points to what I value. I get angry every time someone looks at a vulnerable situation I am in and goes “ohhhh Stephanie! That muse be sooooo hard!” Or they talk about it to their friends with maudlin sympathy for me! How dare they! Tell me what my experience means to me!
This shows I value courage. That in each of these moments, to me, it is not a moment of pity, but a moment I prove, once again, I embody COURAGE. And I want others to know - they will respect that!
Example 2 - Anger points to what I value. I get angry every time someone looks at a vulnerable situation I am in and goes “ohhhh Stephanie! That muse be sooooo hard!” Or they talk about it to their friends with maudlin sympathy for me! How dare they! Tell me what my experience means to me!
This shows I value courage. That in each of these moments, to me, it is not a moment of pity, but a moment I prove, once again, I embody COURAGE. And I want others to know - they will respect that!
by Steph-Steph December 28, 2022
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The act of creating a fabricated or mislabeled logical fallacy and attributing it to your opponent in order to discredit them. This is not simply identifying a real fallacy; it's inventing a non-existent flaw in reasoning, giving it a Latin-ish name, and accusing the other person of committing it. The goal is to weaponize the vocabulary of logic to create a rhetorical "gotcha" that sounds sophisticated but is itself a deceptive construct. It's the equivalent of counterfeit intellectual currency—it looks like a valid critique but is actually a hollow fabrication designed to win points.
Example: "When I pointed out a flaw in his analogy, he shouted, 'That's a classic reductio ad pizza fallacy—you're just reducing my complex argument to a food metaphor!' He'd just forged a fallacy on the spot. There's no such thing, but it sounded academic and shut down the conversation, which was his real goal." Fallacy Forging
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Fallacy Forging mug.The deliberate fabrication of a false chain of deductive reasoning, presenting a series of statements that appear to follow formal logical rules but which contain a secretly invented or twisted rule. This creates a simulacrum of a logical proof that "proves" something false. It's like writing a mathematical proof where you quietly redefine what the equals sign means halfway through.
Example: "He forged a logic to prove his conspiracy: 'Premise 1: Powerful people keep secrets. Premise 2: I have a secret. Conclusion: I am powerful. If I am powerful and they are powerful, we are part of the same secret network. QED.' He'd forged a link between trivial and grand secrets, creating a fake logical bridge to inflate his own importance." Logic Forging
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Logic Forging mug.Creating a counterfeit version of a rational process—a fake cost-benefit analysis, a rigged Bayesian update, or a distorted decision matrix—where the numbers, probabilities, or utilities are invented or manipulated to justify an irrational desire. It's dressing up a gut feeling or a bias in the ceremonial robes of rational choice theory to make it look dignified and unassailable.
Example: "He forged a rationality to buy the jet ski. His spreadsheet assigned an 85% utility score to 'summer fun,' quantified 'midlife crisis avoidance' as a $5,000 value, and listed the risk of drowning as 'negligible (0.1%).' The output said 'BUY.' It wasn't reasoning; it was a numerically themed birthday wish he'd typed into Excel." Rationality Forging
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Rationality Forging mug.Manufacturing a complete argument from whole cloth, including fabricated evidence, invented experts, or fake citations. This is the creation of a persuasive narrative with no connection to reality, designed to be deployed as a ready-made rhetorical weapon. It's counterfeiting an entire case file for a trial that will never see a real judge.
Example: "She forged an argument against the development by citing a 'landmark study from the MIT Urban Planning Journal' that didn't exist, quoting a 'leading ecologist' she made up, and referencing local aquifer data she'd completely invented. Her argument was a compelling fiction, meticulously fabricated to sway the town council." Argument Forging
by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026
Get the Argument Forging mug.Staging a fake debate where one or both participants are arguing in bad faith, the outcome is predetermined, or the entire event is a performance designed to create content, not clash of ideas. This includes scripted "destroying" videos, panels where shills pretend to be opponents, or online "debates" where one party is just a troll trying to generate clips.
Example: "The podcast 'debate' was completely forged. The host's 'opponent' was a paid actor reading the dumbest possible version of the counter-argument from cue cards. The host 'demolished' him, the audience cheered, and they all sold t-shirts after. No ideas were tested; a straw man was erected and set on fire for profit." Debate Forging
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