Truth, Reason, Discernment
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Nearly all make unfortunate choices on important issues due to biases and willful ignorance.
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Nearly all make unfortunate choices on important issues due to biases and willful ignorance.
Human systems same.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Human systems same.
Ditto. And:
5) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
5) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Ditto. And:
5) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
5) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
8) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
8) They can afford to bypass the paywall to read articles titled:
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
"Five subtle signs you're in a wealthy person's home".
Writer and philosopher Huxley (1894-1963) was being generous with his phrasing "...vast majority...".
My experience is that all humans (to sometimes widely varying but still substantial degrees) evade, minimize, misdirect, distort, or deny truth science, reason, facts, and reality.
My experience is that all humans (to sometimes widely varying but still substantial degrees) evade, minimize, misdirect, distort, or deny truth science, reason, facts, and reality.
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Writer and philosopher Huxley (1894-1963) was being generous with his phrasing "...vast majority...".
My experience is that all humans (to sometimes widely varying but still substantial degrees) evade, minimize, misdirect, distort, or deny truth science, reason, facts, and reality.
My experience is that all humans (to sometimes widely varying but still substantial degrees) evade, minimize, misdirect, distort, or deny truth science, reason, facts, and reality.
"And I think you make a really brilliant point...that most people who are not familiar with a crisis don't know when to make the decision that it is a crisis and get involved. So many people through the history of time have pushed it up to the point where it's too late."
E.g.: debt and environment:
E.g.: debt and environment:
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"And I think you make a really brilliant point...that most people who are not familiar with a crisis don't know when to make the decision that it is a crisis and get involved. So many people through the history of time have pushed it up to the point where it's too late."
E.g.: debt and environment:
E.g.: debt and environment:
Also, many are unfamiliar with Swish.
Or at least the first Swish that came up on my search engine.
Or at least the first Swish that came up on my search engine.
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Also, many are unfamiliar with Swish.
Or at least the first Swish that came up on my search engine.
Or at least the first Swish that came up on my search engine.
After logging in to PayPal, that charity disappears.
Manually entering it into their charity finder also does not bring it up.
Manually entering it into their charity finder also does not bring it up.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After logging in to PayPal, that charity disappears.
Manually entering it into their charity finder also does not bring it up.
Manually entering it into their charity finder also does not bring it up.
4. would rationally be changed to eliminate the 3%, leaving only C.P.I.
Congress has long done a poor job, as they typically mirror the average poorly informed constituent that elects them, not the thoughtful and well informed minuscule minority. An ethically impoverished mathematical equation.
Congress has long done a poor job, as they typically mirror the average poorly informed constituent that elects them, not the thoughtful and well informed minuscule minority. An ethically impoverished mathematical equation.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
4. would rationally be changed to eliminate the 3%, leaving only C.P.I.
Congress has long done a poor job, as they typically mirror the average poorly informed constituent that elects them, not the thoughtful and well informed minuscule minority. An ethically impoverished mathematical equation.
Congress has long done a poor job, as they typically mirror the average poorly informed constituent that elects them, not the thoughtful and well informed minuscule minority. An ethically impoverished mathematical equation.
Food for the unusually thoughtful:
I am a political independent for a number of reasons.
Large groups - eg: religious, political, or even informal groups with cultural beliefs around sexuality - get large by appealing to a low, average denominator.
Not by appeal to the thoughtful & well informed.
I am a political independent for a number of reasons.
Large groups - eg: religious, political, or even informal groups with cultural beliefs around sexuality - get large by appealing to a low, average denominator.
Not by appeal to the thoughtful & well informed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Food for the unusually thoughtful:
I am a political independent for a number of reasons.
Large groups - eg: religious, political, or even informal groups with cultural beliefs around sexuality - get large by appealing to a low, average denominator.
Not by appeal to the thoughtful & well informed.
I am a political independent for a number of reasons.
Large groups - eg: religious, political, or even informal groups with cultural beliefs around sexuality - get large by appealing to a low, average denominator.
Not by appeal to the thoughtful & well informed.
Feedback Friday.
A.K.A.: Two Agony Uncles feed shallow human instinct to dwell more on people than on ideas. While they secretly inject overarching ideas and principles under the guise of sociability.
Well played.
A.K.A.: Two Agony Uncles feed shallow human instinct to dwell more on people than on ideas. While they secretly inject overarching ideas and principles under the guise of sociability.
Well played.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Feedback Friday.
A.K.A.: Two Agony Uncles feed shallow human instinct to dwell more on people than on ideas. While they secretly inject overarching ideas and principles under the guise of sociability.
Well played.
A.K.A.: Two Agony Uncles feed shallow human instinct to dwell more on people than on ideas. While they secretly inject overarching ideas and principles under the guise of sociability.
Well played.
Not a fan of ideological, anti-rational, willfully blind, politicult nut jobs like Musk or Tiedrich. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum they're on.
Both blocked my social media accounts because they dislike unpleasant realities.
They both go out of their way to be expletives.
Both blocked my social media accounts because they dislike unpleasant realities.
They both go out of their way to be expletives.
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Not a fan of ideological, anti-rational, willfully blind, politicult nut jobs like Musk or Tiedrich. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum they're on.
Both blocked my social media accounts because they dislike unpleasant realities.
They both go out of their way to be expletives.
Both blocked my social media accounts because they dislike unpleasant realities.
They both go out of their way to be expletives.
"Truth is a greater crime than rape in Israel."
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Truth is a greater crime than rape in Israel."
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
- @jeremiasrobinson in the comment section of this video:
youtu.be/LKsQFt3oTyE
Meanwhile, the other side tortures even their own supporters. (Screen shot, 5 Nov. 2025 New York Times news article)
Severe abuses and propaganda from both sides.
Decades of experience and erudition have led me to deep skepticism of human nature.
Unfortunately, I cannot think of anyone who even tries to substantially positively deviate from that nature.
Even the best among us specialize, ignoring major areas, while typically embracing obvious absurdities.
Unfortunately, I cannot think of anyone who even tries to substantially positively deviate from that nature.
Even the best among us specialize, ignoring major areas, while typically embracing obvious absurdities.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Decades of experience and erudition have led me to deep skepticism of human nature.
Unfortunately, I cannot think of anyone who even tries to substantially positively deviate from that nature.
Even the best among us specialize, ignoring major areas, while typically embracing obvious absurdities.
Unfortunately, I cannot think of anyone who even tries to substantially positively deviate from that nature.
Even the best among us specialize, ignoring major areas, while typically embracing obvious absurdities.
As you were saying on another recent episode?
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As you were saying on another recent episode?
When conservatives, right wingers, or pro-business interests talk of cutting red tape and bureaucracy, they typically mean rolling back environmental, labor, and or safety protections.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
When conservatives, right wingers, or pro-business interests talk of cutting red tape and bureaucracy, they typically mean rolling back environmental, labor, and or safety protections.
Elizabeth Taylor: Lola darling, you know there are only two things I dislike about you?
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Elizabeth Taylor: Lola darling, you know there are only two things I dislike about you?
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
Lola: Really? What are they?
Elizabeth Taylor: Your face.
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980), movie
Ladies & gentlemen, I present Elon Musk's Grok A.I. chatbot, with its answers to the same question, moments apart.
Why should they, when the public elects politicians & parties that habitually mismanage & overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Why should they, when the public elects politicians & parties that habitually mismanage & overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - & in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, distorts, & denies this fact?
Why should they, when the public elects politicians and parties that habitually mismanage and overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - and in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, and distorts this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - and in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, and distorts this fact?
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Why should they, when the public elects politicians and parties that habitually mismanage and overspend, regardless of how much tax government imposes?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - and in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, and distorts this fact?
And when faced with this reality, the public overwhelmingly - and in practice unanimously - evades, misdirects, minimizes, and distorts this fact?
Almost all humans are - to varying degrees - creatures of folly, delusion, irrational biases, and willful ignorance.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Almost all humans are - to varying degrees - creatures of folly, delusion, irrational biases, and willful ignorance.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
Wealth is not o condom protecting us from such traits. Indeed, wealth magnifies personality:
Donating 100s of millions promoting fascism, worse sovereign debt, and health epidemics.
Adorable!
My late dog Dame, whom I miss very much, upon meeting the elk in Miles City, Montana, in May, 2007:
My late dog Dame, whom I miss very much, upon meeting the elk in Miles City, Montana, in May, 2007:
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Adorable!
My late dog Dame, whom I miss very much, upon meeting the elk in Miles City, Montana, in May, 2007:
My late dog Dame, whom I miss very much, upon meeting the elk in Miles City, Montana, in May, 2007:
Another of his I appreciate:
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Another of his I appreciate:
Wow
Next, anyone who doesn't agree 100% with every political zealot on social media, will have to wear the star of David, like Nazis used to make Jews wear.
Doesn't take long:
After my question to you, instead of rational debate, someone skipped calling me MAGA & went straight to Nazi sympathizer.
Next, anyone who doesn't agree 100% with every political zealot on social media, will have to wear the star of David, like Nazis used to make Jews wear.
Doesn't take long:
After my question to you, instead of rational debate, someone skipped calling me MAGA & went straight to Nazi sympathizer.
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Wow
Next, anyone who doesn't agree 100% with every political zealot on social media, will have to wear the star of David, like Nazis used to make Jews wear.
Doesn't take long:
After my question to you, instead of rational debate, someone skipped calling me MAGA & went straight to Nazi sympathizer.
Next, anyone who doesn't agree 100% with every political zealot on social media, will have to wear the star of David, like Nazis used to make Jews wear.
Doesn't take long:
After my question to you, instead of rational debate, someone skipped calling me MAGA & went straight to Nazi sympathizer.
Rare in Homo sapiens.
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Rare in Homo sapiens.
Greta was again fulfilling an ethical humanitarian responsibility, not necessarily a legal one.
Unpleasant counter argument:
The people she is trying to help widely abuse LGBT+ persons.
Most of them would further abuse any LGBT+ asking for relief from that abuse. So why should anyone help them?
Unpleasant counter argument:
The people she is trying to help widely abuse LGBT+ persons.
Most of them would further abuse any LGBT+ asking for relief from that abuse. So why should anyone help them?
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Greta was again fulfilling an ethical humanitarian responsibility, not necessarily a legal one.
Unpleasant counter argument:
The people she is trying to help widely abuse LGBT+ persons.
Most of them would further abuse any LGBT+ asking for relief from that abuse. So why should anyone help them?
Unpleasant counter argument:
The people she is trying to help widely abuse LGBT+ persons.
Most of them would further abuse any LGBT+ asking for relief from that abuse. So why should anyone help them?