A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Philosophy for Laymen,” Universities Quarterly (1946-11)
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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?” sec. “Skepticism” (1949)
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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?” sec. “Don’t Be Too Certain!” (1949)
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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
I think nobody should be certain of anything. If you’re certain, you’re certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty, and so one ought always to hold all one’s beliefs with a certain element of doubt and one ought to be able to act vigorously in spite of the doubt.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)
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remembering conversations had in 2020, (in which someone (of identical iq to me) was reflexively scoffing at an idea and dismissing it without any apparent further investigation, and my, knowing i do not know, exploring at least some surface claims/hypothesis of (for want of better terminology) method of action (e.g. receptor site attenuation)), i did a little websearch for 5G and COVID19 correlation...
a plethora of corporate news websites simply stating outright there's no correlation, and using the scrutiny-disuading adhominem terminology of "conspiracy theories" / "conspiracy theorists" and the even more orwellianised "conspiracy" redefined as meaning some kind of laughable falsehood.
so then i took a different tact, and separately looked up maps of 5G deployment, and then also maps of covid19...
... then the claims, from those news corporations (who, incidentally, get their advertising funding from those who profit from the uptake of the so called vaccines under terror), starts to look undermining of their credibility, to have stated it so absolutely.
similar to how those news sites would state things in absolute certainty, contrary to all prior established best practices in science, where known margin of error and uncertainty would also be presented, back at the start of the scare. ... which, even if one knew nothing of event201, nor operation lockstep, should in itself have been enough to raise alarm bells of something being seriously wrong. but then, once terror is induced, rational cognition is impared and ocluded, with the survival brain's fright-mode activated loudly to the fore.
now i dont kow if there's a causal relationship between 5G deployments and the "COVID19" (which appeared, by that name, on government documents listing diseases of concern, at least as early as 2015), but there does seem to be a temporal and geographic correlation, far more pronounced than is claimed in the corporate news propaganda [(which i think is fair to call it propaganda, rather than journalistic service)]. and as such, it gets one wondering again about the assertions of some doctors, researchers, historians, of the correlations (even aledged causations) from past new electro-magnetic frequency technology deployments and widespread breakouts of disease. various radio and flu correlations for example.
but i do know you're not in the realm of science if you just bark adhominems dismissively at ideas. science requires an enquiring open mind. if you're presuming to already know, and shout down any who utter an idea that conflicts with your convictions, on the basis of their character, without entertaining the idea and exploring it further, then perhaps you're opperating from a more limbic place, than a more considerate contemplative explorative cognitive curious place. more scientism's dogma, than science. more identification with convictions, than curiousity to explore evidence. more presumption, stubbornly clung to, than ideas put to the test. more hate, than education. more official doctrine of the doubleplus goodthink to be obeyed, than true egalitarian pedagogy.
i considered adding various versions of the maps here, so you could see the correlations yourself, but then realised, if you're already habituated to being spoonfed out of your active curiousity, i might not be helping, by becoming the next truthsayer for you to unquestioningly lap up the new truth from. lool. so... i'll leave it for you to go explore some websearches on that yourself. see how much you think, from the results you find after even a couple minutes websearching, that the assertions of the corporate media and its conflicts of interest, are rightly absolute in their certainty of no correlation, or, if a correlation vividly jumps out at you, or somewhere in between, more inconclusive (which still would undermine the assertive absolute certainty of no correlation).
and then doesnt it get you wondering about all the s.m.a.r.t. technology, the patents for "warfare" and population control, and the various announced plans of the billionaire clique...
i dont know. but it seems the certainty presented is not only unfounded, but in error, from what i see when looking outside their well curated overton window.
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not to mention they have patents on the viral lines, and a string of aledged frauds on those virus patents at least as early as 2002, and there being leaked quips from middling insiders asserting things like "when the terrorist thing wears off, we're going to have people running scared of a disease without symptoms", and all this being outlined in the #ProjectforaNewAmericanCentury ( #PNAC ) and surrounding planning documents... just may be enough to consider, maybe it's not like the corporate news propaganda hymn sheet sings over and over to us. #cuibono just may be, maybe, worth consideration...
but, i dont know. i can imagine ways of error in this, and can imagine there are ways of error beyond my imagining. seems healthy to keep an #openmind.
as to do otherwise,
is to #totalitarianise.
it's just people.
we can still mend this.
#itsjustpeople #wecanstillmendthis #restorescience #restoredemocracy #endcensorship #freespeech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vY2LyQn1A "Masks: The jury returns" by #DrJohnCampbell
" #TheData " sounds a lot like " #TheScience ". like there's only one. "the", rather than "this". :P
I recall hearing from nurses discussing this in 2002 (yes, 2002, that's not a typo of 2020) that studies into this going back decades showed they not just null effective, they're harmful.
seems to me it blatantly obviously always was a psyop.
gets you re-breathing bacteria and creating an incubation layer,
prevents ability to sneeze/cough in a directed cone away from people.
causes multi-directional exhalation (including sneezes and coughs),
which go over your flesh (and the incubation layer) and into your mucous membranes, over your clothes, hair, and people around you.
gets you breathing an increase of particulate matter (mask fibers, which themselves may be laced with bacteria).
and, this cannot be stressed enough, spreads stress. stress! health harming stress.
would so loved for more of you to have considered this, and not succumbed to the terror and being complicit in the terror and the conformity. cant get there (the past) from here, okay, so maybe hencefoth, we'll be more aware?
... some are still caught up in the momentum of the plan, the momentum of the terror, the momentum of the confirmation bias, and wont likely spend a day reading such studies.
"this is how science progresses". ha! what a regression. what a corruption. what an abuse. of both "science" (or at least the name of), and of us. #ProblemReactionSolution
it was always a power-grab misdirect psyop.
remember 2019... people were rising up against these crooks... were done with "the terrorism thing"...
as one middling insider (i forget who/when (perhaps as early as 2003)) said, caught on video, something like: "When the terrorist thing wears off, we're going to have people running scared of a disease without symptoms".
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#enjoyingtotalitarianismyet? #enjoyingthecull?
#totalitarianism #massformationpsychosis #theyarenotdoneyet #dontfallfortheplacation #dontfallforthemisdirect #corporatestateterror
#plentymorecontingencyplansyet #worlddomination #dominators
#covid19wasalwaysascam #lookupoperationlockstep #lookupthePNAC
"I was wrong all that time" and still are.
we all always are.
there's always more.
evoke the necessary #humility (and better than I am with this blindingly irate #DigitsRants post, i suggest, heh) for #science.
drop the harmful absolute #certainty of #scientism and #dogma.
A quotation from Havel, Vaclav
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourished human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Václav Havel (1936-2011) Czech playwright, essayist, dissident, politician
Speech, Salzburg Festival (26 Jul 1990)
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical; he who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he just now has learned himself.
[C’est la profonde ignorance qui inspire le ton dogmatique. Celui qui ne sait rien croit enseigner aux autres ce qu’il vient d’apprendre lui-même.]
Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) French essayist, moralist
The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 5 “Of Society and Conversation [De la société et de la conversation],” § 76 (5.76) (1688) [tr. Van Laun (1885)]
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also "the only barrier to truth is the presumption you already have it" -- Chuck Missler
and "a prominent barrier to truth seems the certainty to already have it" -- Digit
ps "all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Digit paraphrasing Socrates plus extra humility whimsy.
Reshares welcomed, discussion to original preferred.
#Questions #BigProblems #Hope #Fear #ChangeMyMind #Certainty #AvailableForChildrensBirthdaysAndBarMitzvahs
A psychosis can be defined as a detachment from reality, or the loss of an adaptive relationship to reality.
yep. rather reaffirms these two old advisory sayings:
listen to those who seek the truth. run from those who claim to have found it.
the map is not the terrain.
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quote from this page
when all data one sees is from within the box,
it takes a great leap beyond insights from the data,
to get out
to the next layer.
#matryoshkamatrix
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wise people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell
#goodquote #bertrandrussell #certainty #fools #fanatics #wisdom #doubt ( + #dunningkruger )
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pQ2WnsLksd5v/ not what i was looking for, but glad it triggered this episode(?) of #DigitsRants
supposedly that'll spare you 2 hours of #davidicke and dodging #londonreel's copyright walls.
well done for outing icke as a shill. though this fella's another, seemingly succumbed to some of the mcarthian redscare. look, if it's capitalism/fascism/corporatism, or communism/stalinism/maoism... the point's the same... they're both tyranny, both rampant excessive uncontainable uncheckable authoritarianism, unto totalitarianism. so lets stop this divide and conquer noise.
"in a sea of misinformation, everybody's a shill" -- Me, ad nauseum.
... so check yourselves, check your data, and keep checking, n beware those who proclaim to have found the truth, and beware their #certainty and naivety, and keep seeking. without #AFullyInformedPublic, #WeAreInALotOfTrouble. let's not run from one tyrant into the hands of another. beware that ploy. beware those who speak out with lipservice to freedom and autonomy, negging one flavour of tyranny, and then subtly (or, not so subtly, in this fella's case) attempt to lure you to another. fuck that bollocks. #neither, thanks.
kinda mind boggling that he's fallen for (or just peddling) nazi propaganda, saying the nazis should rightly be called national socialists... noh, that's the marketting propaganda rebrand name over what they really are. anti-socialist hegemony. there was no pretence of ridding the state to achieve the aspirations of socialism there (& instead even promoting the totality of its dominance as lasting for 1000 years!!!). worst of both capitalism and communism, taking away the freedoms each took, leaving none. idk how anyone can have anything good to say about 'em. boggles my mind, hard. triggers my #stultophobia. scary... that there are people out there who look to the likes of hitler and nazism, and think, "good ideas". o_O boik! wat! ok, so if a portion of a portion of a portion of jews are in a nepotistic position of socio-economic power... what's the solution you say? supersede them with superior systems that obsolete theirs? get an angry jesus tipping their tables over for committing usury? no? none of that? what? kill all the jews? [edit: (and do what was disliked what they'd done, but even worse to outrageous extremes)[edit: opposames (an icke term (which that fella coulda benefited from grokking better, rather than peddling one))]] what!? sounds completely outrageously dangerously wrong-headed on so many levels, there's a traffic jam in my head, and it all just goes o_O boik! as all the reasons that's wrong try to get out at once, at the same times as being left mind boggled at how they could have succumbed to such ideas. i mean, lets just start with an awareness of the danger of setting that precedent of mass-murder / genocide as a "solution" to a "problem"... offer them a dose of #FirstTheyCame #ThenTheyCame #WhenTheyCame, to help dispel any of those notions of "it's only these..." or "i'll be fine, i'm not...".
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17721470 <- Pertinent. the #DeskKillers episode of renegade inc. i dont want these "well intentioned" atrocity-normalised goons coming for me, just because no one managed to disabuse them of their indoctrinations of "just doing my job".
... "it's no wonder nobody studies history... you just learn way too much." -- i forget who. coulda been robert anton wilson, david icke (lol ~ irony), george carlin, bill hicks, stewart lee, chris hedges, one of the professors wolf, lee camp, paul stamets, terence mckenna, billy connolly, richard feynman, alec salmond, ross ashcroft, or any of a dozens of other diverse characters i've been dosed with over the years. XD idk, maybe it's a commonly expressed sentiment that several of them have uttered. surely more common than "in a sea of misinformation, everybody's a shill." anyway, unfortunately. maybe there'd be more scrutiny, less gullability, more humility, if it were a sentiment better known.
and maybe if we stopped scaring/distracting people away from studying history throughout life, we'd have more people who know that excuse for committing atrocities was not accepted. "just doing my job" shirking of personal responsibility is not same befitting of "forgive them, for they know not what they do." not when your job was just mass murder (for a start). ... oh how rapid things would change the sooner more of us face the horror of what we've been doing, and are doing, and see the deaths and suffering and enslavement and tyranny we participate in, in oblivion and negligence.
no hostility to them needed. just sympathy. because we're all in that sea of misinformation. no "other" here. enlaketch.
