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When Forecasting becomes Prophecy

  Taking Possibilities Seriously Without Believing Them Absolutely A longtime C-Realm Podcast listener recently reminded KMO of something he had largely forgotten. The listener referenced C-Realm Vault episode #89 , from April 2014, by its episode number. Not just the topic, not a vague recollection of a conversation, but the specific entry itself. More than a decade later, it had stayed with him strongly enough that he could immediately point to it. Meanwhile, the episode had largely faded from KMO’s own memory. Because of that reminder, the episode has now been posted publicly on the KMO Show feed , where it had previously existed only in the subscriber-only Vault. KMO has not yet listened to the recording again. He has only read summaries of the transcript. Even so, one theme stands out clearly, and it captures something that would later become central to the Getting Over Collapse project. The key distinction is simple: the difference between taking a claim seriously and believ...

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