What is Common Sense?

Def; “good sense and sound judgment in practical matters.”—a common-sense approach

One definition extrapolates that to develop common sense, we should “Stay aware of our surroundings at all times and pay attention to how people react around you to specific actions”

Sounds like a recipe for neuroticism…

I would say common sense is the action and common interpretation of current behaviors. Our common senses today are not very practical. They are based on academic learning, vs practical experience.

If they were practical we wouldn’t wonder why nobody has any. “So you don’t believe in god?That’s just common sense!” —Not any more.

So what is common sense and why do so few possess it? Is common sense an ideal, and not a real thing? Just remember, when you are mad and people around you are irritating, that these are your people.

I think common sense is the ability to adapt to any situation based on a collection of experiences. I trust a farmer over a politician. One has experience, while the other has read about it. The farmer can foresee the outcome of a decision. The politician can only see as far as the opinions he’s read, which are based on other opinions. This is where we reside today.

Common sense makes decisions based on utility —while the politicals make decisions based on feelings, which are devolved hunches to improve popularity but rarely produce the desired outcome—like religion.

My latest project—The retirement shop

Meanwhile…

Rawgod said, “A bit pedagogic, don’t you think, Jim. Nothing is ever always something.” Isn’t that also a statement of always, btw? But isn’t this true, that no religious doctrine has ever supplanted a scientific discovery?

As much of the world continues to chase its theological tail, more and more are ignoring what can’t be understood to discover things that 100 years ago would be miracles.

Imagine permanent, fully integrated prosthetic limbs and bionic implants being widespread. Scientists are also experimenting with various brain implants that might help restore hearing for the deaf and restore sight for some blind people. All ingenuity being extensions of human consciousness—our extended phenotypes?

The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun. (1) Yes, we’re taking a closer look at the sun—the creator, the god of this world.

As we dig our way into the past we are finding humans have been here longer and longer, farther and farther back than we ever imagined.

These contributions all can fuel the betterment of humanity. To reach for understanding that all things are possible, and there is no need to believe anything outside of our own ingenuity.

Thank you to the farmers who have geniusly devised ways to feed this mob with less and less land. Instead of attacking them as co-conspirators poisoning the world with gmo’s, try thanking them for the extra yields that feed your offspring. They are the real miracle workers of the park. Now if we could just get that food to the children…