Richard@DecisionSkills wrote:davidbanner99@ wrote:…she often scores good points.
David, whatever “good points” are scored become wasted when those points are then conflated with some absolutely demented delusional hyperbolic horseshit.
That people have been victimized by their own governments is a good point. But that point is lost when 2 additional deaths each week is conflated with genocide.
Candid thinks she is doing some sort of investigative reporting, when actually all she is doing is using a mouse to click links on the Internet like everyone else. She is building her own rabbit hole as she creates her own highly distorted version of reality.
I was thinking about "reality" late into the night. Triggered by Zen philosophy.
I think very many of us live in our own reality - and that includes me too. In "my reality" I perceive myself to be somehow more attractive and interesting in real life than other people would view me. I hide any failures in a fog of clung-to successes. I plan all sorts of goals and objectives but seem to drift on auto. As you think carefully, many people live in a similar narrow reality. In Zen, the goal is to see yourself as others do but, in so doing, bear in mind that neither your own, or third party reality, may form the true picture.
Interesting to consider how Tokeless and Candid have opposite views but that is influenced by their different realities. Tokeless works in the NHS and is surrounded by people who "believe in medicine". Tokeless too probably lacks time to read skeptical arguments on governments. I suspect too Tokeless sees a half full cup.
Meantime, Candid is surrounded by people who are alarmed by the creeping attacks on democracy. She too is in her group.
The riddle is to find the real Candid and Tokeless amongst the bias of their own, subjective realities.
"We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and the seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links” — Nikola Tesla"