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It could be that for all your veterinarian and business acumen, you suspend critical thought when it comes to politics and religion. This would explain your success, while making no sense on these topics.

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tell me you are jealous of another man's success without telling me you are jealous of another man's success

ya'll push for accreditation and then whine when you get it ... sad

I think you completely misunderstand, jeffee.

No whine at all, nor begrudging Lane's success.

I don't recall anyone calling him stupid either.

Anyway, his business and economic success compared to my observations about his denial of facts or evidence, could be seen as two different things. There is a reason they don't reconcile, but caution is prudent when speculating the reason(s). We know the effect. It's the cause that's a mystery.

I've already explained my opinion on the relationship between religious beliefs and worldly affairs.

When thinking about business and vet services, most of all that is tangible and has less to do with belief and more about pragmatic and practical and skill. When into the political, religious, ideological realm - intangible - that where critical thinking might be checked at the door to the rabbit hole.

Here's a concise example of what I mean: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." That's a conflation of the intangible with tangible. It's checking critical thinking at the door of the rabbit hole.

I think we're witnessing a case of Dunning-Kruger Effect/affect in combo with the religious affect.

In my personal experience I know an engineer with similar success as Lane explains. His business and engineering skills are obvious based on the fact that he earned his millions. But when it comes to politics, he's a hard-core ideologue. Excellent competence in one arena/domain doesn't necessarily equally apply outside one's field or domain.

Definition:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by Justin Kruger and David Dunning in 1999. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence …

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IOW, the Dunning-Kruger effect, if relevant, is specific to HIGH intelligence

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OTOH it could be explained:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris#Modern_usage

Hubris - Modern usage

Jealous? Sorry. I've had my own successes, and wouldn't trade them for his. Difference is, I don't keep bragging about mine.

You're doing what Trumpies do: shout "TDS" every time someone criticizes their orange messiah.

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Jealous? Sorry. I've had my own successes, and wouldn't trade them for his. Difference is, I don't keep bragging about mine.

You're doing what Trumpies do: shout "TDS" every time someone criticizes their orange messiah.

Except I didnt.. heck, it's not even a repeat post. It's a one off...

Lane says lawyers aren't math majors, that's cool.. but I would expect even naki can count to 2...

It goes 1...2....

I asked once.. your reaction is kinda precious though.

I didn't interpret Lane's claims about his successes in his career field as bragging. Not at all. There's reason to think its factual, so I don't doubt it. He should be proud of his successes and it's quite okay to say so, IMO.

As I recall it was Lane who quoted an attorney he knows. The quote was something like "I wouldn't know the truth if it bit me, but I do know what admissible evidence is".

In context, that's about court and evidence. But it says that Lane appreciates evidence.

That's until it conflicts with presuppositions in the realm of politics, worldview, religion. In that context, Lane "knows" the truth already.

This is just my opinion, based on what I've seen within the confines of this forum. Sometimes a person's success and wealth brews into something that is akin to arrogance, or hubris, and extends further than just their field of success. It's giving oneself credit beyond their field of competence, or a sort of false equivalence.

But Lane can't be humble:

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House

No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991.