what you just said starting with the word "so," so you're saying that all lizards can fly, whatever comes after that word "so" will definitely not be what you're saying. And it's a sign that the person, their own argument has fallen apart. So when somebody responds with a "so," you've already won. You could actually just walk away. Go, oh, there it is. Victory. There's the "so."

And the first time I ever told you that, you think, what, you can actually tell when you've won an argument by that one word? Really? Really, that one word? You put it in front of a sentence and that's all it takes. You don't even need to know what the rest of the sentence is. Seriously? Yes, yes, seriously. When you start looking for it you'll see it so clearly. Yeah, all of this "so what you're saying is" is a guarantee that you just won the argument. Because here's why. If somebody still had an argument they would have used it. They wouldn't have to mischaracterize what you're saying. They would simply use what you're saying and say well here's why the thing you're saying doesn't make sense. If they had an argument. Otherwise they go, "So what you're saying is that even Hitler would be okay as your roommate. Is that what you said?" No, no, nobody's saying that. No, it's not good for what.

All right, let's see if I can—somebody's saying that my claim that my bad experience with what I thought were mushrooms, for me to say that maybe it wasn't actually active mushrooms, is cognitive dissonance. Possible, but there's no trigger for it. In other words, I could be wrong or I could be right, but cognitive dissonance would require that there was something about my prior opinions that this would violate. And nothing like that happened. So there's nothing that could have changed my mind. There's just some knowledge that I'm lacking, which is what was in it.

Now some have said that the difference between a good trip and a bad trip, if you can call it that, on mushrooms would be how much you like that basically. But in both cases it would be a psychedelic or mildly psychedelic effect. And I didn't have any. So if you take something in the higher dose range and you don't have any effect, I'm not sure you'd call that a bad trip