What is the point of all these stories if they just warn you against argumentation? It sounds like they're designed to make people stop thinking and just follow blindly.

The text presents a clear purpose that is distinct from blind obedience. According to Chapter 2, the goal of engaging with these stories is profound spiritual development. It states that 'By hearing, singing, and contemplating my stories, Devotion to Me will be born and ignorance will be destroyed immediately.' The warning against argumentation is specifically aimed at ego-driven debate—what the chapter calls 'bad thoughts and false logic' where one tries to 'establish your own side' and 'refute the other side.' The intended outcome of the stories is not the cessation of thought, but the attainment of 'self-experience and self-bliss' and 'knowledge of his true form,' which such empty intellectual sparring is said to obstruct.