I believe that mere belief without evidence has been unjustly elevated to the gold-standard of ones knowledge and character.
I see intense belief in anything is a seedbed of tribalism—
That belief undermines real academics and embraces mediocrity.
I know when belief is required to be part of group, the group will betray you over unbelief.
I’ve observed and experienced the key to understanding the mysteries™️ is unbelief.
I understand the universe is a diverse array of energies and dimensions where some people are attuned more so than others to it.
I believe the foibles of human neurology, perception, and bias need to be understood at a grade school level to promote tolerance of difference and friendship—all of us!
I notice that religious beliefs need to be protected by law because they cannot stand on their own merits.
I observe herd instinct, peer pressure, indoctrination, and impatience supplants reason.
I believe the ability to hand-wave contradiction and fallacy hardwires neurons through repetition and submission. The problem is now in the physiology.
I believe faith should never be the end-goal of intellectual achievement.
I found that submitting your will to belief in god/allah, or any other godform disempowers the best part of human nature, delays intellectual advancement and personal achievement.
I would wager belief should never be intended as a solution and should be the least respected of all professions.
I believe that mans impatience has allowed him to be conned by men of self importance. Now the prisoners drive the ship.
I think that humanity is much older than we realize, that man has appeared on the scene several times in multiple generations of geologic time—things are much stranger in the past than we realize. We are much more capable than we realize too.
I believe that any belief should be able to provide some empirical data, and transition from belief to pure knowledge in a reasonable amount of time.
I’ve observed that big box religion and one-size-fits-all dogmas are inadequate to provide the needs of nearly 8billion differing physiologies—evidenced by each member choosing for himself the parts of morality and teaching (s)he already knows.
I believe people’s beliefs are merely hunches, feelings, intuitions—guesses, if you will, they’ll divide their families and friends over. I also believe that is immoral.
I believe coffee was the second greatest product of plant evolution.
I was right there with you until the coffee thing. I could never bring myself to actually like it. I tried but, nope. Oh well.
Nice post. I believe you are on to something here. 🙂
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Well, as you know the producers have me hamstringed with this one one minute time frame. I really could go on all day about the fallacies of strong Belief. It’s a hunch, a feeling that has so much social importance people will be nasty to their kin. Ridiculous
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Ridiculous indeed. No argument here.
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I believe Jim has a lot he has been thinking about.
Your opening line is the best of the bunch, many problems stem from that one.
So… what was the 1st greatest product of plant evolution?
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These ideas have been collecting for a little while sir. Thanks. While coffee is my personal favorite as of now, I’m not so self righteous to think there is not something better…say …corn, but I hesitate (based on my beliefs) to say ‘my way or the highway’. It’s good, but coffee is not a religion, so I have to leave some safe space.
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All I can say to that is…corn doesn’t give you a buzz Jim, well not until it’s been thoroughly processed 🙂
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True. Very versatile. You know whiskey? (of course, duh) The evolution of corn is a man made gem. Even today botanists can’t duplicate it from the original grass it came from.
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Weed.
And I believe tea is the second best
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Funny, now that weed is legal here it’s super cheap, strains from all over the world at our fingertips…and not as much fun as when it was illegal. And tea? Well spoken and second only to coffee…Sir!
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weed is still illegal in my part of the world. someday i hope we will have reasonable legislators who will free the herb from the clutches of the law
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Sadly true! Many will virtue signal and pick slogans over true values 😦
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True. Do you have an example in mind?
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Many, but you probably won’t agree! 😉
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I’m open to anything that promotes a reality consistent with what would actually function. We’re still in baby steps mode, but with all the tribalism you’d think we actually knew something.
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Hello Jim. I believe you are correct. Have a great Sunday. Hugs
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Thanks Scottie. All the best to you as well. I’ll pop over in a bit.
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Personally, I believe the children are our are future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier 😀
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I believe you are right. Finally! My wife teaches a dissection class in elementary. She mentioned there is no blood because the frogs have been preserved. A six year old jumped up and shouted that he’s covered in the blood of Jesus! Teach them well. That is the part we’re working on.
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“Covered in the blood of Jesus,” shouts the kid. Sick. Really, that kind of indoctrination is sick. Wish we truly could ban it as a form of child abuse.
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I did do a post on it a while back. In case you missed it
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I do remember it now that you mention it.
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https://jimoeba.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/how-old-is-too-young/
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Pink, this is excellent and so unlike you.
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Did no one get the joke?
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Must be the case
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Do you have a better link? Esto no se abre aquí
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Lol. I get it! One of my all time favorite guitarist too. You would have to copy someone else to say something nice. This makes sense now.
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I thought everyone, everywhere knew those lyrics!
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We do. I thinks we’re just shocked you could be so loving
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Now I get it. But still, it is unlike you lol
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I did! I did!
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@Pink
Oh dear … are you wanting a badge and a gold star?
Of course we got it!
Pea Ess… the George Benson version is better.
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I was shocked as well.
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I believe I can fly! I think about it every night and day; spread my wings an fly away! Oh, I believe I can soar…..OOPS! I jumped off a building to fly and 1.) My “wings” didn’t spread out, and 2.) I didn’t fly! I fall down go BOOM! (Guess belief alone ain’t good enough.)
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You need to work on your astral glide, I believe.
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That’s what she said.
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But did you touch the sky?
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I inhaled a cloud I got so high. Cough! Cough! Cough! Still got some of it stuck in my lower lungs.
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No, but if you excuse me I’ll kiss the sky
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LOL 😀
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I am reminded that the compliment of being “a man of strong faith” is a euphemism for being stubbornly and willfully ignorant.
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Your comment reminds me of Cotton and Increase Mather. Yep, yep, and yep. Mornin’ Steve.
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Yes coffee and chocolate
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Chocolate had my wife too. She almost refused to proof this when I said coffee.
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In the end there is only an ending. I was gunna say something snarkastic about believing you, Jim. But Scottie already did that. So, I believe that I will just que up with him.
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Point duly noted. No argument from me, either.
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Great post Jim
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Thank you kindly. I belieeeve! Um..right?
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I believe in what I believe, I believe I believe in.
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I’ve not seen the tribal Mary. Don’t believe you.
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😊😊
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Believe all things, believe in nothing. (That doesn’t necessarily mean what it says, or seems to say)
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Emphasis on “in”! I liked this one “I strive that any belief should be able to provide some empirical data, and transition from belief to pure knowledge in a reasonable amount of time”. Thanks ST
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As you point out, any belief should be able to provide some empirical data, and transition from belief to pure knowledge in a reasonable amount of time. It all begins with some kind of belief, as in, we can’t know until we experience it. Belief as a quest for knowledge is destroyed once it becomes “a belief” as in believing IN something. Mental certainly is mental atrophy.
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Quotable quotes “ Mental certainly is mental atrophy—SháTara
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I believe I really like what you wrote …
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There are plenty more. Thanks Nan. The human brain really seeks information, and in a void, belief fills the synapses and grey matter with just that—fantastical info or any anti-Poe’s Law random bullshit belief will take the space, if we don’t fill it with intent.
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I believe I really like what you wrote about really liking what Jim wrote.
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I really like it too. It’s difficult sometimes to get to the root of what the real problem, the real core of all the woes. I think I’m inching closer. You have to sift through a lot of preconceptions to find it. We’re always directed to focus on the wrong things. Our core has been misdirected to a false importance.
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Delicious.
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Is that empirical delicious or hearsay?
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You want me to measure my enkephalin levels? One sec….
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You’re peptides are showing!
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Here are two more Ken Ham posts of mine: https://variouspontifications.com/2014/12/02/i-got-a-ken-ham-race-to-reality-board-game-for-christmas/
https://variouspontifications.com/2015/08/02/ken-ham-discovered-to-be-33000-years-old/
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So which plant is number 1?
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I personally do not believe you, Jim. Coffee and chocolate are both physically addictive, though few people have problems being addicted to them. Tobacco and most other street drugs are also physically addictive. The man-changed hydroponic marijuana can also be physically addictive, while the original natural version was psychologically addictive only to a few. Also, cannabis is a healing plant, though it chooses what it wants to heal. It has been used for its healing properties for over 10,000 years in it’s most natural state. Marijuana is easily the best plant for humans.
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I can’t disagree with that. Although legal, my employment right now requires i have no thc in my blood. Stupid, yes but that’s another argument. It’s never really been my thing anyway.
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But if you have any aches, pains, or weird ailments, have you ever tried Low-TCH cannabis sativa oil? It comes natural from a particular variety of marijuana plant, and you could eat it like candy without getting high or having the THC show up in a bodily-liquid test. It is produced by a Canadian company and has been legal in Canada for 20 years already, as well as in most states now.
Ah, forget I said anything, but really, coffee and chocolate are more addictive that most natural plants, take it from an ex drug counselor.
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I hear ya there rg. Fortunately I’m super healthy for now. My family all lives to be 100. It’s hard to believe I’m only likely just over the halfway mark. Sheesh! My dad’s 85 and still traveling and camping, takes no meds. If I’m lucky weed will stay just a recreational option for me.
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Good for you. My family mostly does not get past the 70s, and I’m already 69. Time is ticking away, but hey, we all gotta go sometime.
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And weed is the greatest plant right? 😀 Or was that the cocoa tree?
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Yep. I mean, yes sir!
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I believe I’m three days late to the party, but great post nonetheless.
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Sorry, we ate all the brownies.
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