Correlative Trend Between Percentage of National Irreligiousness & National Mean IQ for 241 Countries & Dependencies, plus Pearson Sample Correlation Coefficient demonstrating a 0.64 (strong) correlation.

Given the etymology of the word 'religion' being 'the repeated process of gathering & transitionally binding' minds to ideology, it seems to me that the higher the mean intelligence quotient expressed by a population, the less susceptible its minds are to being gathered & bound to ideology.

#correlation #intelligencequotient #ideology #religion #irreligion #irreligiousness #stats #data #analysis #pearsoncorrelation #usa #uk #abrahamism #judaism #christianity #islam #hinduism #buddhism #folkreligion #etymology #ontology #anthropology #un #religiousideology #info

Religious Belief Systems by Continent Region, 2023.

Due to there being no data for just over 900 million people, each figure given for each belief system should be considered as being around 89% accurate. This could, for example, swap the most prevalent religion position between Christianity & Islam, or could further extend Christianity's lead.

#religion #metaphysics #philosophy #belief #faith #ideology #dogma #beliefsystems #religiousideology #data #statistics #stats #information #demography #anthropology #culture #god #gods #spiritualism #spirit #ontology #abrahamism #judaism #usa #christianity #uk #islam #hinduism #un #buddhism #folklore #folkreligion #eu #irreligion #athiesm #agnosticism #hindu #christian #muslim #jew #buddist

If you can't inquire into the veracity of it, or deny it, it's not history, it's dogma or propaganda.

A proposition that's true will withstand critical scrutiny; a proposition that's false, but presented as true, requires protection.

A prison sentence for denying an historical narrative is tyrannical & engenders resentment.

#freespeech #freedomofspeech #usa #freedomofexpression #holocaust #holocaustdenial #holocaustdeniers #holocaustdeniallaws #speechdenial #speechdeniallaws #humanrights #freeinquiry #historicalnarratives #uk #WW2 #JudeoAngloAmericanElite #angloamericanestablishment #eu #denyhistory #ontologicalcertitude #ontology #epistemologicalcertitude #epistemology #historicalfalsification #academia #politics #espionage #un #secretsocieties #societalcontrol

#Credulity is the friend of #deception.

#scepticism #questions #critique #criticalthinking #criticism #belief #epistemology #ontology #USA #UK #information #perception #data #knowledge #understanding #quote

My initial attempt to visually describe the fundamental structure of information control used by the upper echelons of the West's societal power hierarchies to control information & ultimately the societies. Verson 1. Input welcome.

#structure #structural #system #systematic #systemofcontrol #control #informationcontrol #education #compartmentalization #specialization #societalcontrol #societalsystems #powerhierarchy #hierarchy #massmedia #msm #overtonwindow #propaganda #ai #linguistics #academia #psychology #appliedpsychology #anthropology #information #understanding #perception #choices #ontology #epistemology #freedom #liberty #humanity #humanrights #plutocracy #oldmoney #scions #plutocrats #elitists #elites #globalists #socialengineering #socialengineers

Do Chairs Exist?

A surprisingly good Vsauce video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fXW-QjBsruE

I'd suggest some related questions:

• What is "chair"?
• What is "existence"?
• What is "is"?

How much of existence simply rests on a sufficiency of interest on our part?

There've been a few stabs at disucssing this, I'd like to see if we can't perhaps pull off a bit more here. Do please watch the video first so as to be on the same ground.

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Miscellaneous observations not critical to discussion though of possible utility thereof in your correspondent's humble opinion at the present moment

Numerous interesting and useful concepts:

• Ontology
• Composition and Constitution. Simples
• Properties
• Relations
• Sortals
• Entailment
• Ontological Reductionism
• Ontological Realism
• Ontological Antrialism
• Ontological Innocence
• Gunky vs. Junky universes
• Application Condition
• Pseudo-Questions

Also a quite impressive reading list. I've linked in Worldcat entries for books.

BOOKS:

• Metametaphysics (Eds. David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman)
• An Introduction to Metametaphysics (Tahko)
• Material Beings (Peter Van Inwagen)
• Objects and Persons (Trenton Merricks)
• Ordinary Objects (Amie Thomasson)
• Ontology Made Easy (Amie Thomasson)
• Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference (Michael Jubien)
• Objects: Nothing out of the Ordinary (Daniel Z. Korman)
• Composition as Identity (eds. Cotnoir, Baxter)
• Truth and Ontology (Trenton Merricks)
• Austere Realism (Horgan and Potrc)
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan Watts)

PAPERS:

• Thinking about Things (Jubien): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2676165
• There are no Ordinary Things (Unger): https://www.jstor.org/stable/20115446
• Against Parthood (Sider): http://www.tedsider.org/papers/nihilism.pdf
• A Sweater Unraveled (Sidelle): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2671870
• On What There Is (Quine): https://www.jstor.org/stable/20123117
• Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Quine): https://www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fbd6-1538-0000-000070cf64bc/Quine51.pdf
• Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Carnap): https://www.jstor.org/stable/23932367
• Many-One Identity (Baxter): https://philpapers.org/rec/DONMI-2
• Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians (Baxter): https://www.academia.edu/39736289/Oneness_Aspects_and_the_Neo_Confucians
• Why the debate about composition is factually empty (Balaguer): https://philpapers.org/rec/BALWTD

Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Ordinary Objects: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ordinary-objects/
• Sortals https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sortals/
• Metaphysics of Mass Expressions https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics-massexpress/
• Material Constitution https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/material-constitution/

And:

• Material Composition https://iep.utm.edu/mat-comp/

#philosophy #ontology #existence #empiricism #pragmatism #metaphysics #metametaphysics #meaning #truth #epistemology