facts
evidence
logic
rational
rationalisation
Not sure where this world is going or if it has ever gone anywhere anymore but the current overloaded input we have just seems so sad and so helpless and so hopeless.
Does anyone learn anything new anymore?
Do people change their minds at all?
I kind of know that I did at least from the religion POV.
I mean I used to be Catholic and a Choir Boy and then left it all for a while to dabble in drugs and oriental mysticism
and then 42 years ago on the 12th of August I kind of switch to Protestantism Evangelical Non Denominational CULT really.
Read the book many a times 7 times the OT and 12 times the NT.
And for a long time after that I was in and out off and on on the Bible wagon,
even got baptised for the 4th time in Australia here therefore post 2001.
If I was to read back my blog which started December 2009 I can tell there was an awful lot of bible stuff and quotes in the early years
so to blame my conversion to my heart surgery in 2005 would be wrong even though I do detect some sort of life changing PTSD in late 2004 when the bad news came in and I was given 6 months to live.
Maybe one day I will go back on my older blogs and try to pinpoint a "conversion" date
or a more accurate milestone
on my now full fledged atheism.
But I don't think it happened over a debate I won or lost or what not.
But the thing about this new Brave New World is that all that SOMA is mind numbing.
Debates are endless long boring spectacles where both parties come and leave exactly as they came in and so do their fans.
Every single one of them playing a high level game of confirmation bias.
No one would know a fact or a truth or an evidence today if it hit them in the face.
So wherewithal shall a young man find his way or an old man for that instance?
I was watching Jordan Peterson rehashing his really tough battle with Sam Harris today and trying to find a silver lining, a rationalisation that would fit in his compartmented, built-up mind, fitting with all his old Jungian and mythological and hierarchical puzzled life.
Because if that is all crap than the man has no foundation left and we know what the bible or the architects say about that now.
Not that I am siding on Sam Harris either the man is arrogant and way too self assured to know anything and wrong on too many subjects too.
His intellectual adherence to Buddhism is utter bullshit right from the start.
One thing for sure these days AVOID any article or site with the word TRUTH in it. You can be assured that there will be none of it and what they have to say.
Facts and evidence?
Well why am I reminded of old wrongly attributed saying:
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The thing is we are constantly reminded that many so called facts and evidences are totally debunked daily. That a countless numbers of studies are corrupted and twisted by the powers that be by the publishers and by the greed of the wanna be player in the big games.
We are also bombarded daily by a shitload of weasel words: Study says, Studies say, Scientists agree, scientists have discovered etc etc
And let's not forget the intellectual bandwagons:
(especially in the domain of nutrition the biggest undecipherable Daedalian maze ever)
salt, eggs, MSG, and the catchword of the day: Vitamins where you now have to pay to find out.
That the facts and evidences of only 50 years ago are utter bullshit long rejected today by new facts and evidences which will absolutely be debunked in 50 years from now if one has enough brain cells left to do some proper extrapolation.
That when you start calculating in mega numbers, and our brain is not wired for mega numbers, but one knows that the smallest error becomes a huge margin if the angle is long enough.
It is like heading to some place many light years away and being off by only a fraction of a degree: any astronomer and space scientist would know that too well.
It's like working with Imperial vs Metric measures on a large scale as it once happened and cost billions of dollars.
One should know better than reading the Daily Mail or watching Fox News but still how does one decipher the Everest pile of manure to sift through and find a real fact or truth or evidence? Without one being injured or derailed by his own prejudices limited mind and cognitive biases?
And let's face it fully we all have very very limited minds. Sure we're achieved a few remarkable things since the times we moved on from the apes but we are certainly all "sinners" on this earth
HAMARTIA
i.e. light years away from the fucking mark.
The illusion of knowledge IS our greatest enemy indeed.
When everything is a metaphor or needs hermeneutics or is a parable or holds the firm belief like the Aghoris who maintain that all opposites are ultimately illusory.
If everything is relative, and everything is illusory, and everything is a metaphor, and a parable, and a miracle, a mystery,
then NOTHING IS FUCKING REAL and one can go on believing any false shit one wants.
Facebook or Twitter or YouTube certainly won't save us as all of them are in for the money anyway and are more part of the problem than the solution really. Charlie Brooker is on to something.
Life will be just one big fucking reality show with no reality in it whatsoever anytime soon if not already.
We will all sit in Idiocracy Land and watch the Housewives and the Kardashians.
FUCK FORBID.
And politics in the endgame will be just like life.
Order vs Chaos. Life vs Death, Poor vs Rich. (Or as other would like to call it Left vs Right)
And in the end we all know
CHAOS DEATH and the RICH will win
as we see in so many future dystopias nowadays.
They're gonna shove it up our cosmic YingYang alright.
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