So, i guess you're getting at something significant... indirectly.

Yes. Those are things they think. And what i'm intuiting from your response is something about why they think that. I suppose it has a lot to do with the places they get their media.

Perhaps the best course of action (in my case) is to discuss differences in the quality/accuracy of our (me & fam/friends) information sources, as well as the relative benefits of our ability to predict outcomes given the sourced information.

Thanks.

I'm choosing to interpret this sincerely, and not sarcastically. Thanks again :) I really do want to integrate a lot of what's been happening, heal from it, and move these relationships forward. I'd like to have most of the people i'm thinking of in a citadel with me... but seriously, I'd rather they were capable and inspired and informed how to develop their own.