Step 1: Assume that you already know the truth and ignore anyone who says anything that conflicts with it. Never question your own ability to know the truth through personal experience and traditions.
Step 2: Avoid conversations and/or people who challenge your ideas.
Step 3: If engaging with other ideas, never do so with the best presentations and presenters of those ideas. Make sure your interaction with other ideas is as an ungracious caricature that comforts any fears that you might be avoiding an idea that could refute your own.
Step 4: Slander anyone who supports an idea that might refute yours by making them seem ridiculous or evil. This way, you will convince yourself that this idea isn't even worth considering since it is proposed by such an awful person.
Step 5: Start accumulating a series of other false ideas to support the one you have. This way it will be too much to untangle for anyone left in your life who might be a beacon of light to you.
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