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Post by been_there on Nov 5, 2021 16:04:34 GMT
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โWhen we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility
of peacefully resolving
our differencesโ
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Post by been_there on Nov 5, 2021 19:28:53 GMT
We live in a unique time. We live in the internet age.
Now, more than ever before in known history, anyone who is literate and has access to the internet can check, double check and triple check reports, news and information that they are receiving,
Now, more than ever before, ignorance has become a choice.
ADVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INTELLIGENT, HONEST AND ARE INTERESTED IN ESTABLISHING WHAT IS TRUE
1. Learn how to use an internet search engine wisely.
2. Make searches to find alternative explanations to what you are hearing/reading/being told.
3. Be open to the possibility that what you are reading/hearing might be skewed, or deliberately misleading, or delusional speculation, or... etc., etc.
4. See and check if what you already intuitively feel is correct could be wrong.
5. Be open to the possibility that you have already been deceived and are now believing narratives that are false/flawed/only partially true.
6. Understand that we will never be able to completely understand anything. We are only capable of partial understanding. So cultivate some awareness of your own limitations and donโt become dogmatic and fixed in your beliefs.
7. Cultivate comprehension of our shared human nature and individual + societal frailties.
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Post by mrolonzo on Nov 5, 2021 22:25:27 GMT
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Post by been_there on Nov 8, 2021 5:43:46 GMT
 โOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weโve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Weโre no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. Itโs simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weโve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.โ โ Carl Sagan,
The demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the darkโFinding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.โ โ Carl Sagan |
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Post by been_there on Nov 9, 2021 12:03:29 GMT
__________________ โSometimes people donโt want
to hear the truth because they donโt want
their illusions destroyed.โ
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Post by been_there on Nov 13, 2021 9:14:49 GMT
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โHistoryโ is not another name for the past, as many people imply.
It is the name for stories about the past.
โโโโโโโโ There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. โโโโโโโโ Conformity may give you a quiet life;
it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance,
comes from the nonconformists.
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Post by been_there on Nov 20, 2021 15:09:37 GMT
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Post by been_there on Nov 21, 2021 10:33:51 GMT
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Post by been_there on Nov 26, 2021 15:24:56 GMT
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โArt, leisure, traditional culture are swept away when a country is Americanised.
Long hours, low wages, economic enslavement to the foreigner, take their place.
The political government, which is unimportant, is left to [the local population];
[but] the real government is in the hands of American banks.โโ Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell's America: his transatlantic travels and writings. A documented account, Volume One 1896-1945, Part II, Is America becoming imperialistic? (1925), p.213 
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Post by been_there on Dec 6, 2021 16:06:37 GMT
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โTreat others as you yourself want to be treated... that is all you must learn in the Talmudโ.
~~ Rabbi Hillel.
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Post by been_there on Dec 9, 2021 16:41:28 GMT
. . โhe who will not reason is a bigot;
he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not, is a slaveโ. ~~ Sir William Drummond |
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Post by been_there on Dec 11, 2021 7:47:48 GMT
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CENSORSHIP
IS THE โTOOLโ USED WHEN THE LIE LOSES ITโS POWER!
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Post by ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ด๐ป๐ธ on Dec 12, 2021 4:26:22 GMT
๐ฃ๐ป๐พ๐ฝ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ธ๐พ๐ฐ๐ฑ O.W. Homes. The Professor at the Breakfast-Table |
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Post by been_there on Dec 19, 2021 10:58:58 GMT
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Post by been_there on Dec 31, 2021 16:29:35 GMT
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