One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.

My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.

Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".

I did it after seeing Hook in the theater

Correct

I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.

Tell that to a whale or bowl of petunias that suddenly materialized in the atmosphere of a planet with gravity

I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it

I almost upvoted you, then I realized you had 42 upvotes.

If only Andrew Tate had the balls to recreate it irl

Just Aim for the bushes

I only just noticed who the OOP was

How Thomas Wayne actually died

Some crazy person eventually got their fancy wing suit to actually work eventually.

I don't seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he's said, it's usually some vacuous nonsense like this.

To be the devil's advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don't ask me, I'm a gamer

Great game design. Bethesda is telling the player "You can break our game with custom magic. Go do stupid shit."

Tarhiel's dumbass just needed to cast another scroll before landing. 🤦‍♂️

To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single pilot precipice in the world

RIght! What kid didn't jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape..., then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that...

Just flying with a paraglider is fucking amazing. I bet this moron never even tried that. Twenty hours + theory exam and you're good to go.

I do believe that requires an open window in the vicinity as well.

Darwin Awards in action.

Actually, I'm going to offer a counterargument.

There's lots of flat earthers who conducted experiments to determine if the earth is flat, and got the result they wanted. My favourite is the guy who brought a spirit level on a plane. When the level didn't move, he said it was proof the earth was flat. He was wrong, because he interpreted the results of his experiment wrong. His method didn't test what he said it did.

I think your Jesus 2 is like the plane level guy. His method is wrong, it doesn't test what he's trying to test. Or at least, doesn't test realism vs idealism. What it does test is whether his own espoused beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality. So that guy is wrong to say that he can perform the miracle of flight. But I argue there's a lot of grey area in between "This one guy's beliefs are the ultimate nature of reality" and "naive realism is true".

What I believe is that there exist rules of psychology which operate at a deeper level than our own surface level beliefs. For example, sometimes I'm really mad with My partner because we had a fight and I believe that My life is worse without it. But then I go to bed, and in the morning I remember how much I love it, and we make up. I had a belief, but it was not the truth of My being. The deeper truth was My great love for it.

Your Jesus 2 fellow perhaps didn't believe that he could fly on a donkey, in his heart of hearts. On a surface level, maybe he believed it, but I'm not convinced it was the core of his being. I think it would have been much easier for him to persuade the core of his being that he could fly, if he had been in the cockpit of an airplane.

I don't actually believe in airplanes, I think they're just a symbol in our conscious interface, as Donald Hoffman argues. But I think airplanes are connected to some rule of our psychology that allows us to fly under certain conditions. And to our limited point of view, that rule looks a lot like an airplane.

I bet he knew, but at that point he'd talked himself into a corner with his followers and had no choice but to jump or face the shame.

Wish Trump had the balls to feel shame

Nah, you just need enough faith to see that he actually flew.

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"All those guys at the bottom are losers. Let me show you!"

Shockingly common story.

Landing safely is just survivor bias. No dead parachutist ever reported a failed parachute.

Great game btw

90% of people quit RIGHT before they learn to fly.

When I was really young I was very confused as to why my plastic shopping bag always seemed to fail as a parachute. Reckoned I needed more height.

Bet it made you a legend tho, right?

The most useless talismen in the game. At least the Trick Mirror talismans might actually trick a bad red man into fighting the wrong guy. Knowing when a fall will simply hurt you, kill you, or already be completely safe is impossible.