Jake,

Was October 7, 2023 real? What have all of us been going back and forth on all this time?

Jake, you’ll really want to reconsider the Strawberry Fields stance. There are others who don’t mean well standing there in the patch too who want you there making fertilizer.

And “The Desiderata” works best in a Desiderata world with Desiderata people.

jakelafort wrote:
Seeing our lives in that manner also has serious repercussions. Instead of positing the true influences we credit CHOICES! That i may avoid a rant and get back to handicapping i take my leave and reserve the right to revisit.

Strega, Jake, I appreciate that, too. I’ve accepted a belief in free will, even when I know it’s not…[Read more]

You’re welcome Strega.

keep thinking how it is nearly impossible to avoid the trap of positing free will and in doing so condemning the others. I am keenly aware of it and in the moment i FEEL that way.

This morning i was listening to a Sam Harris podcast about covid and the lessons we can learn and steps we ought to take. It was a Harvard…[Read more]

Thank you Jake that was just what I needed.

No core beliefs about reality except nothing we would recognize as such exists. That is my gut talking.

Amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Adjust my understanding based on new info does not prove me wrong, it only improves my interpretation of how the world works. I get a clearer picture.

Yes, being shown to be in error makes me ask questions, which is always a good thing.

Hamas hostage looking like he is being cared for by Germans back in the day. The recreation of that day is something the lefty’s are working on. Those hostages are eating what we eat. And then ya see a great big fat arm on the Gazan. Does not matter how idiotic the Hamas propaganda because the international media will continue to be Hamas’…[Read more]

I think I have an over-inflated sense of my own abilities, but I don’t mind being knocked down and proved wrong.

I think most people think that their interpretation of reality is the correct one. As I said before, I don’t maintain any “core beliefs” about reality.  I have various understandings about how the Universe operates and of my place in…[Read more]

As bad as the starvation in Gaza is, more people are dying trying to get food than are starving. To make matters worse, as reported by an American soldier in a viddy I put up a few days ago, he’s witnessed IDF soldiers shoot into crowds of civilians committing the crime of trying to get food.

https://youtu.be/ZBReq4PBaKQ?si=7EIKUpyy-aPzmr2l

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe.

That’s a very interesting finding.  Conspiracy theorists, as a whole, have an over-inflated sense of their own cognitive abilities, leading them not to question the fact that they might be wrong.  That’s one reason why they cling onto bullshit beliefs, that…[Read more]