“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
There is very little I actually believe in, mostly I'm just entertaining ideas. I entertain the idea that:
The sun will rise tomorrow.
That the Orion Conspiracy is/is not true.
That Project Blue Beam will/will not try to unite the would under a single religion.
That Facebook is/is not a front for the CIA.
That Bin Laden is/is not a CIA asset.
That there is/is not more to 9/11 then they will tell us.
That the Fed acts only to manipulate our economy for the benefit of the Elites.
That the Bilderberg Group owns the bank/government.
That corporate media exists only to Manufacture Consent.
That the Republican party is anti-christian.
That Psychedelic drug use it the root of all religion.
That the $800 Billion bank bailout was passed under treat of martial law.
That drivers licences have little to do with driving.
That Social Anarchy is the best form of government.
And that the entire Universe exists only as a holograph of a deeper reality.
As there is very little we can know for sure, the rest requires faith. What is the difference between faith and belief? I do have faith. I have faith in what is important to me. I have faith in my family, being a father, my children, my wife, and I have faith in myself. I have faith in the future and the divinity of life. However I have no faith in government, religion, media, popular culture, or any who seek to control. I have faith that Truth Happens.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
H. P. Lovecraft
Things are never what they seem. The commonly understood ideas only reflect majority view points, and are always distorted by overly-simplistic understandings, overt mis-truths, group-think, bad assumptions, and cultural misunderstanding. After all, social control is easy. Humans are not capable of the kind of knowledge it takes to really understand what is going on, yet. But technology is changing that. The printing press was a disaster for the ruling order, the Internet is the abolition of the ruling order.
Reality is based off of assumptions. There's really not much (if anything) we can know for sure, especially when trying to look ahead. That's why I take a philosophy of Maybe logic, because everything is based off percentages of certainty. Honestly you can only say that there is a non-zero percent chance the sun will rise tomorrow. However the chance of the sun rising tomorrow is high enough, that we are willing to plan our life around a belief that it will happen. Most of the other aspects of our lives have a much lower probability.
This is why I love conspiracy theories. I know that there is a very high probability that some our true. Yes; JFK's assassination was a conspiracy.
JFK speech:
I can say that with about the same confidence that I know it will not snow tomorrow. Who did it and how causes much lower confidence. That the mob was involved... 30%. That aliens where involved... .01% That the CIA was involved... 45%.
Something about being a parent has made me very interested in considering my many paths in life and questioning a lot of my assumptions. As I have become more aware of the world, I have come to realize that the vast majority of what people believe is only myth reinforced by the common belief. The economy exists only because people believe it does. "Nobody" could foresee the current economic collapse (actually concerns where quickly dismissed with ridicule, making it a professionally unwise opinion), yet the economist who never seen it coming and the Fed that never saw it coming still have credibility spreading a myth of future stability? Why would those in power wish to propagate a myth of stability? Who's interest does this propaganda serve? Believing something is true will make it so, until it's not. Washington Mutual CEO made a statement saying the bank was very well capitalized days before it was seized by the FDIC.
401(k)s are a game of musical chairs in which people sit down in order of age. They've become cash cows for a handful of the economic elite, Ponzi schemes just like Social Security and the rest of our economy. As more baby-boomers start cashing in their 401(k)s the values will go down, investments fail when values start going down. 401(k)s where never really about retirement anyway, it was a way to funnel money into Wall Street and giving the working class a sense of ownership in the fortune of Wall Street. Basically, they've been used to siphon money away from the working class, and is then used for extorting government bailouts. It created a miss-perception that the Dow is the economy, and what was good for bankers was good for the bottom 90%. We live in a reality created by a common belief in this myth. 401(k) values have been going up simply because more people are putting money in then are taking it out; that will change. High unemployment rate means more people taking their money out, depressed economy means less people putting money in. The probability of a major collapse in mutual funds before my retirement is unacceptably high. So how do I plan a path ahead when the future looks so complicated?
So in questioning where I go from here I have to really delve into the important questions about what I really want in life, what I value, what my purpose is, and what kind of a world I wish to create.
These questions should not be taboo, if there is some grander plan to life then it is behoove of us to understand it, and for the benefit of all I choose to document my journey publicly, for any who wish to learn from my mistakes and experience. Seeing how it is most likely there is "something" greater then an individual existence I need to better understand my role. This effort need not be for my benefit alone. I have no fear of appearing as a deviant, abnormal, extremist, erratic, or eccentric because these are only negative labels of qualities I value. Individuality.
What I do know is that the individual is the most important person in the individuals existence, if only because through your actions you create the world around you. It seems to me that it is somehow paradoxically true that we are have very specific paths in life (a Destiny) while at the same time we are the sole creators of the world we live in (perfect Free Will).
I harbor some belief in Synchronicity and other Fortean phenomena because of personal experience and interest. However; I ultimately believe in nothing outside of my personal experience, and I suspect that direct personal experience is also often flawed. So I have slowly built my own personal philosophy around what little can be known, what I think I know, what seems to be the most historically and intellectually consistent, and some amount of intuition and insight.
Everything in life happens for a reason. The Music of the Spheres is not chaotic, it is an order that rises from chaos. I find that logically there is either a grander purpose in life or there is not, but as in Shrodienger's cat we can't know until we make a measurement. We are faced with a question of faith. Either life has purpose or it does not, what you choose to believe is your faith. However; what a person believes will have a very significant impact on his actions and perceived outcomes. In effect, at least, what a person believes will impact the world they perceive and the world they think they live in. Expectations shape perceptions, faith in a world view shapes the world you view. This is why faith in your ability to choose the correct answer is so very important. Do you live in a Universe that conspired to put you in this place and this time, or are you a victim of an unfortunate series of events? Do you have any idea what the probability of you being alive right now? Of course if Earth was never able to support multi-cellular life then you wouldn't be asking that question. The order from the chaos is impossibly improbable but it still dances to the Music of the Spheres. I like the Aghori belief that: if God is perfect, and God created the Universe and created us, then the world is perfect and everything we can do is perfect.
These questions are incredibly important to delve into because I need to be aware of the realities I choose to create. The world is a pretty crappy place right now, but it doesn't have to be, and I believe that things are quickly changing for the better (although much more complicated). Things will be different when people changed their expectations. An expectation that politicians will be corrupt is what allows for politicians to continue being corrupt. Either your past was positive learning experiences or an excuse for failure in the future, what you choose to believe will influence all future perceptions.
The goal is happiness and even though there may be aspects of ourselves we do not like, everything else is a lie.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ~Carl Sagan
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