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Why is Plato's analogy of the line such a reliable midwit filter?

>>22503966
One is a lie that you conjure, the other is historic fact you can read countless people reference.

You know that these things are different. Unlike in an elaborate crime case, you have the insight for both claims, so why do you equate them as though they are equal? Could it be your intentions here ingenue to your claims?

Guys, we need to talk about the bible again. I continued reading and it just gets worse.

>god gives Moses the 10 commandments, including "thou shalt not kill"
>meanwhile Aaron builds the golden calf
>Moses comes back
>sees the golden calf
>immediately decides to forget "thou shalt not kill" and orders his soldiers to kill 3000 random dudes regardless of whether they worshipped the golden calf or not
>Aaron gets rewarded with the position of a high priest
So what's the message here? If you're god's chosen prophet you can break his law and still get rewarded while innocent others who just followed you must die? Note that the people didn't even know yet that worshipping the golden calf was a sin. After all, they didn't receive the ten commandments yet.

Another favorite of mine:
>Balaam is apparently another prophet chosen by god, as evidenced by the fact that god directly speaks to him
>the king of Moab thrice wants him to curse the Israelites
>every time Balaam does exactly as god says and blesses the Israelites instead
>his reward for perfectly obeying god? he gets killed by Moses
What the fuck? This god is insane. Everything he does is completely arbitrary. Or maybe Balaam should have just broken god's law, too. Maybe then he would have been rewarded like Aaron and Moses. Being good and obeying god seems to be wrong choice.