Common beliefs define reality, and there can only be one consistent reality. All religions, cultures and ideologies want total conceptual domination, without realising that this would destroy them; if reality were cemented, definitive, no longer creatively challenged and negotiated, consciousness could not sustain itself.
Reality is continuously negotiated. It has to be negotiated, not to make it perfectly consistent (which is impossible) but to mutually sustain subjectivity, the confabulation of Self. The process of negotiation itself is the aim, which is the realisation of Self by mutual mirroring, and the external reality is an unstable byproduct.
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You do not need ‘reasons’ to not believe something, but you need mighty reasons to believe something. The reasons to ‘not believe’ something is simply that the reasons to believe it are not good enough.
The popular portrayal of aliens 👽 with massive heads and skinny necks suggests a terminal vulnerability. Their bodies could not endure the 9.81 [m/s/s] Earth’s gravity, let alone an earth-quake or a bus ride.
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What do our rulers want? The same as anyone who ever had everything that can be bought or taken: to be God. It is not enough to ‘dominate’ to be God; in order to be God, one must become perfect, and it pains our rulers that they are not perfect, that they cannot even conceive of what perfection would be like.
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The Government is a construct of your own mind, a caricature of You that you consciously deny, thereby externalising it as a ‘real’ attachment.
The function of the NEWS is to monopolise public focus by appealing to existential anxiety, in order to define and maintain conceptual uniformity of public thought, with uniform attitudinal polarisation. The news-business is strategically factionalised thought-control.
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Consider the following hypothetical scenario. A person is so preoccupied by a TV series that they cannot think of anything else but the events acted out in that series, and this is the only topic of conversation via which they can relate to other people. That person is so absorbed by the series that they regard the show as reality. This is what following ‘the news’ is like for most people.
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Corporate employees are generally required to believe the news in order to keep their job, and must believe the news enthusiastically (and amplify the official messaging) in order to be promoted to any managerial position.
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Yes, the experts respect you as a moral equal for ‘believing’ them. Believing the experts is so clever.
We know that autism is genetic because it is just as common among wild animals;) [Citation needed]
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Birth and death of consciousness are impossible, because everything that happens is internal to consciousness, which has no outside. That which dies is not I.
Given that the premise of ‘private language’ is nonsensical, God could not have possibly said “Let there be light”. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-words
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The Meaning of Words
: on the presuppositions of natural language
The policy of banning children under 16 from accessing their social media accounts is like banning heroin addicts from accessing heroin; it is not meant to work. Failure is the goal, and on the basis of that failure they will make increasingly degrading demands, like any pimp. Those who are addicted to domination and exploitation can never be satisfied.
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53 His disciples said to him, "Is [vaccination] healthy or not?" He said to them, "If it were healthy, people would be born [vaccinated].” [Gospel of Thomas]
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I don’t do system ‘updates’. If the hardware sold to me does not continue to perform as advertised with the pre-installed software, then it is a policy problem, industrial sabotage, not a software problem. The fact that every new version of Windows had frustrating bugs that did not arise in the open-source Linux, demonstrates that corporate software is intentionally dysfunctional, with planned obsolescence and the ‘need’ for updates and patches being an essential feature of its business model. Microsoft was not incompetent, or bad at coding, or bad at security; this is a misunderstanding of its primary purpose.
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The healthcare system, the justice system, and religion are the same system, whose purpose is neither health nor justice nor salvation, but domination.