Do you like to be lied to? Do you mind being deceived, manipulated, fooled, tricked, duped, conned, scammed, screwed, bamboozled, and hoodwinked into accepting falsity as truth? I doubt anyone would answer yes. From these simple questions alone the importance of truth is demonstrated.
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However, some people deny there is truth. Some are solipsists, subjectivists or post modernists. Even for those who recognize that there is truth and it has value, they don’t seem too concerned into seeking it. Why seek it? Because we are being lied to, deceived, conned, etc. The deception is all around. It’s in the mainstream media and every institution around us, be it government and all the peripheral institutions, or medicine and other sciences.
If you’re not aware of this, then you haven’t been paying close enough. The deception is working well. We have all bought into falsehoods and accepted tem as truth, and most continue to be because they don’t even know they are being manipulated by those they believe they can trust to provide them with truth. Some easily verifiable historical examples are the Gulf of Tonkin false flag of the war on Vietnam, and the Kuwait incubator baby conspiracy of the first war on Iraq.
Our actions are based on our thoughts and perceptions about the world around us (worldview), and about ourselves (self-view). We have always been taking in information from our environment, which includes our own bodies within it. Information is consumed and influences us. Sometimes the influence is a conscious choice, and sometimes it’s unconscious, either way it is influencing us. The less we reflect and think about information and what we are perceiving, the more likely it is to condition us as a being of consciousness.
Our psyche is being conditioned, programmed and mind controlled, whether we know it or not. Our behavior is formed by this conditioning. We have programs, so to speak, running our behavior. Our lack of thinking, especially critical thinking, reflection and evaluation of the information we are fed and consume, leads to us living in conditioned and programmed ways. Non-thinking is a problem that leads us to accept falsity.
This is why the pursuit of truth is important. The information from the so-called acceptable or authoritative sources need to be questioned. Looking at alternative sources of information is important. Thinking that information that contradicts the status quo, mainstream or official narrative is bullshit or lies, means you won’t even look into it to evaluate it for its veracity. If you consider authoritative media, government and experts as the only alleged authority to provide you with information, you will continue to be deceived and won’t even be aware of it. You will continue to accept falsity and think it’s true.
Keeping people ignorant of how they are manipulated is important. Keeping people from looking into methodologies being used to manipulate them is also important. This makes sure people continue to be influenced and controlled, and are dissuaded from even looking at information that questions or contradicts the established and accepted narratives people are expected to believe in.
It’s important to not be deceived and manipulated into accepting falsities. Otherwise, the direction we go in will likely be built upon a flawed foundational understanding and lead us into falser ways of living. Core beliefs are valued and weigh on our decision making. We are filled with axioms that we think are self-evident, yet haven’t looked at them deeper to see if they truly are. An axiom (from the Proto-Indo-European word ‘ag-ty-o‘, with the root ‘ag’ meaning to drive, draw, and move) motivates us, moves us, or draws us to certain paths and behaviors. Our false axioms and beliefs are binding us into false pathways.
Take one simple example. If you take within yourself the axiom that 2+2=5 then your development in further attempting to understanding subsequent mathematics will be orders of magnitude different than if you were to understand that 2+2=4. The divergence in understanding grows exponentially with the degree of divergence from fundamental axiomatic principles of truth. Building from a false axiom or belief will lead one onto the wrong path from the beginning. The more falsity taken in, the more the path diverges from truth.
I prefer the truth even if it’s ugly that way I can make the best decision going forward
But... but... the lie is so comforting :P
2+2=5 for sufficiently high values of 2.
But seriously, it seems the education system is intentionally churning out students ill-equipped to analyze information and weigh its validity.
School teaches people the truth comes from authority, facts are what you are told, and people who don't follow the rules are dangerous.
None of this proves any given conspiracy theory or alternative explanation, of course.
Churn indeed, just grinding them up like in the Pink Floyd video for Another brick in the wall:
That is why it is so important that there are alternative media. Unfortunately, they are disappearing more and more on YouTube, but there are alternatives if you want to get information. Unfortunately there are still not many people who are willing to accept this little inconvenience and love to turn on the TV.
You can hardly blame people for it, since you have been programmed to do so from an early age.
Thanks for your good contribution.
Yes, it's crucial. Even if they are wrong at times, many of them are less wrong than the mainstream media. Social media was the alt media to the cable TV, and now we need alt-alt media from the big tech alt social media lol
Unfortunately, many people prefer the convenient lies over the hard truth.
Corbett had a brilliant quote recently that sums up most normies pretty well:
"You cannot wake someone up who is pretending to be asleep."
I rather like my shadows on the cave wall, please stop triggering me!
Indeed, lies feel good sometimes, especially when its what you belief to be true, a reality hits hard when it shatters that worldview.
Its even worse than that.
2 + 2 =5 is nothing. In our current math system 1 = -1
All the basis of our scientific understanding is wrong.
Including the scientific method.
And even our understanding of govern-cement.
This is a blatant lie. The taxes we pay all go to the Fed where they are thrown in a furnace.
Accept, in english you learned that capitalized words are different. "People" is a proper noun.
people ≠ People.
You don't have any rights, and your wealth is scammed off of you without your even knowing it, let alone there being any representation.
1 = -1? How do they figure that out?
Just one of the things that breaks our current math.
Something like (1+3+5...) - (0+2+4...) and so you play with this apply infinity, and you can make an equation where 1 = -1
To answer the question: No, I don't like being lied to.
And yes, truth matters.
I agree with you that we are all ignorant of some truths.
Life is learning ;)
Information matters. The source where it's coming from matters even more!
The information being true or false matters more than the source of the info.
True
Lied totally mislead and give fake fact about someone.,Other views lied can also be encourage in life, it used as opinion to correct someone for wrong doing,for instance our parent said "Dont sit at door step,though it not true but they said it just to prevent accident if someone is rushing or running from outside.
I actually wrote about the 2+2=5 thing recently, mainly because some right-wingers (hello @lucylin)wouldn't acknowledge that changing our political system/society is like re-evaluating axioms.
so why is Bernie mad at you?
Right winger?
Me?....lmfao!!!!!!!
I never realized you're, as bright as 5 watt light builb! hilarious.
lmao...
right wing...
brilliant.
#trigguered
I was just contemplating this myself a few minutes ago. I spent maybe 15 minutes researching hydroxychloroquine on the internet and found the recommended dose for Malaria. I then spent another few minutes looking at the safety and efficacy study that policymakers are using to demonize it. In the one phase III study they used the weekly recommended dose, twice daily. They gave this over 7 days and were surprised somehow when people got sicker. HCQ is poisonous at those doses. They say not to exceed 2000mg through a course of Malaria treatment and this study gave them 5600mg. It doesn't clear the system for weeks so those people were being poisoned to death in some cases. This FUBAR study is one of many that made the same mistake. These are the so called experts who are entrusted with public health.
Yup, Del Bigtree talked about the Age of Autism article showed the two big trials for the WHO and Oxford are shams that are set to harm people. Medicine is bastardized. They don't follow demonstrable protocols of dosage with zinc to help people, they just try to harm them on purpose.
From a birds eye view of the situation right now, the problem I see is the infantilization of grown adults.
THIS comes at a cost - critical thinking.
With this infantalization comes a naive acceptance of an 'authority' telling you the truth.
The problem is that an adult with the mental age of 10 has the same 'weight' as a fully functioning, mature adult.
This is the problem.
With reducing IQ's, and less critical thinking, the children become the rulers.
(Lord of the flies, anyone?)
Then throw into the mix, manipulative adults handing out free candy to the children, for their affections....(soros et al)
How do we 'send the children to bed', without sweets, without blowing up the world in the midst of 'their' tantrums?
A conundrum.
Yup, we are infected with this belief in authority, and it doesn't go away as much as we think when we grow up.
Coming from a background from family who never really acknowledge it in the first place, has it benefits as an adult! lol