I come at this from a different angle now, after concluding reality isn't real, and we are just operating on a useful representation of an underlying reality that we will never understand.

But I have always (ok, since a young age, maybe 12 or so) operated under the assumption that I didn't know the whole story. Explored lots of conspiracy theory, starting with Art Bell, but eventually tired of it because it was mostly people scaring themselves with bogeymen.

The underlying notion of not knowing was still there, and became foundational. That approach eventually led me to Deism, and then a little ways past it, where I can accept that there may be (and likely is) a higher power, but the only intellectually honest answer is that I don't know for sure, and don't know enough to assume any characteristics of a deity.

It is very empowering thing, to not know - it can put you in an automatic state of constant learning, observing, trying to learn more. It can also allow you some liberty in setting things aside that don't matter. Did we go to the moon? I don't know, BUT, it doesn't matter in regard to my current actions and priorities. Same for 911.

We are left to prepare as best we can for the unknown, and unknowable. That means learning skills, not having items. Learning things make you able to act, while having things is just playing the lottery and hoping you have the right thing at the right time.

My goal is to be able to be dropped into a populated (or semi-populated) region with nothing but what I am wearing at the time, and be able to thrive. I believe I can do that, not because I know everything, but because I can learn quickly and adapt.

I come at this from a different angle now, after concluding reality isn't real, and we are just operating on a useful representation of an underlying reality that we will never understand.

But I have always (ok, since a young age, maybe 12 or so) operated under the assumption that I didn't know the whole story. Explored lots of conspiracy theory, starting with Art Bell, but eventually tired of it because it was mostly people scaring themselves with bogeymen.

The underlying notion of not knowing was still there, and became foundational. That approach eventually led me to Deism, and then a little ways past it, where I can accept that there may be (and likely is) a higher power, but the only intellectually honest answer is that I don't know for sure, and don't know enough to assume any characteristics of a deity.

It is very empowering thing, to not know - it can put you in an automatic state of constant learning, observing, trying to learn more. It can also allow you some liberty in setting things aside that don't matter. Did we go to the moon? I don't know, BUT, it doesn't matter in regard to my current actions and priorities. Same for 911.

We are left to prepare as best we can for the unknown, and unknowable. That means learning skills, not having items. Learning things make you able to act, while having things is just playing the lottery and hoping you have the right thing at the right time.

My goal is to be able to be dropped into a populated (or semi-populated) region with nothing but what I am wearing at the time, and be able to thrive. I believe I can do that, not because I know everything, but because I can learn quickly and adapt.

I do not know

I don't know if the moon landing happened.

I have seen the photographs and videos, but I've also read that the mission data was taped over and I've watched the astronauts give contradictory accounts about whether they could see stars while en route. I've seen a retroreflector experiment "confirm" that NASA somehow left mirrors on the moon, but I have also read that they have to limit the duration of such an experiment to avoid false positives.

So what really happened in the NASA Apollo program? I do not know.

I don't know what happened in the 9/11 WTC attacks. I know the official story of course, but I also know that WTC7 collapsed without a plane impact. I know that other skyscrapers have been hit by planes without collapsing. I know that jet fuel is kerosene, which can be burned in a cheap glass & brass lamp without melting it, and if it did weaken the steel to the point of buckling it should have bent and twisted, not collapsed at freefall speed into its own footprint.

So what really happened on 9/11? I do not know.

I think we need to have the courage of ignorance - to claim that the regime narrative regarding some event doesn't really make sense without taking it as license (or compulsion) to substitute speculation or free association as the hidden truth. Become comfortable with limited knowledge.

Gn #norstr

Good night #nostr Sleep well 🌙🧡

Good night everyone 😴

Ok it felt like an oven there,

So if it’s always been this way, why were people developing there?

Stop watching the news

Hitchhiker's Guide to Hard Money ⛏️

Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Media Machine 💜

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

I’m on a rock I didn’t get a users manual