Every nation, tribe, community, political party, religious organisation, company and club has some beliefs, ideals and ways of doing things that are based on unreality.
I 'met' a guy on a train once who knew with absolute surety that worms ruled the world. I was initially pretty sure they didn't but as he explained more to me about this fact of his existence I realised that I couldn't prove that he was wrong. I spoke to him for 40 minutes about the implications of wormism and in the end he just reassured me that '...believing what I say or not makes no difference to the reality so you may as well embrace it...' Trying to force my reality on his reality would have shut down the conversation and alienated him, but instead I came away enriched and far more curious about the world of the worm than I had been previously.....
Classic scene from The Matrix when the guy with the terrible chin hair chooses the fake steak over reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gL0xQHI0wo
I 'met' a guy on a train once who knew with absolute surety that worms ruled the world. I was initially pretty sure they didn't but as he explained more to me about this fact of his existence I realised that I couldn't prove that he was wrong. I spoke to him for 40 minutes about the implications of wormism and in the end he just reassured me that '...believing what I say or not makes no difference to the reality so you may as well embrace it...' Trying to force my reality on his reality would have shut down the conversation and alienated him, but instead I came away enriched and far more curious about the world of the worm than I had been previously.....
Was he a lunatic or a worm scientist? Or both?
Disciple is a more accurate description...