How do you 'know' something?
only 2 ways actually
Why do you think you ‘really know’ anything?
That’s a question you should start thinking about.
Knowledge arises either from transmission or from observable realization. That’s pretty much it really. Sometimes people tell you stuff that’s true, sometimes not. If you haven’t tested it out yourself, it’s pretty much a coin flip if it’s got any merit.
Here are 5 brainfucking variations of that simple truth to flip your own cognitive circuit breakers:
The Empiricist Manifest - “All human knowledge traces back to either imitation or experience. We either inherit beliefs from others, or carve understanding through our own observation. Everything else is faith dressed as fact.”
The Social Critique Approach - “What most people call knowing is just believing what someone else told them. Actual knowledge begins only when a person stops repeating and starts verifying.”
The Scientific Reduction - “There are only two sources of knowledge: received information and experienced evidence. The first simply fills the mind, the second shapes it.”
The Philosophical Compression - “Belief is borrowed; while knowledge is earned. Everything we think we know, unfortunately lives somewhere between those two divergent poles.”
The Epistemic Schema - “Knowledge enters through two gates: hearsay and experience. The first builds consensus, the second builds truth. The tragedy of modern media filled life, is that consensus replaced truth as the measure of knowing.”
I thought that was a good way to open. Not only is it an effective use of repetition, but it attacks the same problem through slightly different angles.
I am really trying here, trying to understand why people just continually believe such stupid shit. I’ve settled on 2 main reasons. Here: “everyone believes what they’re told because disbelief requires effort and intellectual courage,” and “most people don’t think - they outsource it. Because belief is easier than understanding.”
That’s the best I got.
Hope that was a good intellectual Opening Salvo. Enjoy the rest of post…
How Do People Know Something:
Way #1 - Doing It: hands on. Planning it out, physically undertaking the procedure, watching it, re-doing it, and producing the same results time after time. Hence, you learned it to be true yourself.
Way #2 - Someone Told You: believed what you heard. This is by far the more common of the two ways. Usually just heard it through the media or someone. And it coincided with enough of your existing knowledge base of the issue, that you choose to accept it as true.
That’s the entire deal. That’s how people understand what they know to be true.
Way #1: doing it
Example - Growing some Tomato Plants
Take some Tomato seeds outside to a good spot. Dig up some of the dirt. Put the seeds in the ground and cover them up. Make sure to water the area, and make sure the area gets a good amount of sunlight. And in a little bit of time, a small plant will sprout up. Make sure to let it be, don’t mess with it. Just make sure it gets water and sunlight - and it will grow into a nice healthy tomato plant. And you can have some natural beautiful tomatoes as long as you like.
And you can test this out repeatedly, by yourself, as long as you like. You can play around with the variables. Not watering the plant - seeing what will happen. Put it in a shade only area, no direct sunlight exposure. You can put the seeds in different types of soil, different pH or acidity levels. You can put in helpful nutrients into the soil. Find which variables produce the best results, and which kill the seeds. This is how us humans literally learned everything we fucking know.
Way #2: you heard it was true
Example - You must vaccinate your kids (or else)
Now - what we call ‘childhood’ vaccines, or the “childhood vaccine schedule” is exceptionally new to our species. Exceptionally new!
If you go back just to 1950’s or 1960’s, the entire “vaccine schedule” was 2 fucking vaccines! Just 2. Even “the father of the childhood vaccine protocol” himself only had 1 vaccine (he testified under oath/deposition). But he lived through childhood and well into old age. Strange right?
You can talk with your parents or grandparents about this. Great source of firsthand knowledge. Or us that are older, know firsthand, or those of us that are very old - well we remember “NO” vaccines in childhood. Yeah! I’ve had many conversations with “older” family members - yeah, no vaccines in childhood. Lived into triple digits! Odd right, everyone needs 72 vaccines before they are 18 or they will die? FUCK OUT OF HERE!
But - here, with this way of ‘knowing’ something - it has greatly changed, hasn’t it?
And this leads to a terrible precedent. Even though for 50,000 years - humans lived with the environment, and the environment lived in us, in the last 65 years something has “necessitated” we hyper-vaccinate everyone. And it’s ONLY true - because someone tells you its true. This is whole crux of the issue. Humans are being “told” things that are demonstrably false, but wrapped in benevolent framing, and inverted to make it true. It’s true cause someone on TV told you its true, and you chose to believe it.
Now - you can test this out as well. Assuming you didn’t believe our entire recorded human history - and the fact our species evolved perfectly-well within our environment. But if you didn’t believe our history as a species - you can simply test this out yourself.
You can go find populations that do not vaccinate, many here still don’t - Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites (in the US), and many tribal populations in the still remote parts of the world. You can compare all diseases for yourself. No Autism across the board! No, or exceptionally low rates of cancer. No “chronic” diseases. No fatties (related, but slightly different). No ADD, ADHD, Ticks, Turrets Syndrome, Asperger’s, or the now omnipresent “anxiety,” though that is a horse of a slightly different color. You can also verify it in quantifiable health metrics. Physical, mental, emotional, even spiritual health indexes (in our soul sense, not religious). So you can go investigate if what you’re being “told” bears any truth. Spoiler Alert: it doesn’t.
But - the point, it’s only true because someone told you it was. And paid to get that stupid shit into some corrupt Intel owned “medical” journals. And by this logic, anything can be conceivable true. You see my point? Once you divorce truth from reality, from physically observable experience, anything can be claimed to true. And once it’s proclaimed true - it is broadcast as truth - and you are bludgeoned into accepting this into your schema of life. You are forced to believe something you haven’t verified yourself. And we see what has happened, don’t we? Now 1 in 20 kids have childhood brain damage from vaccines (what they call Autism).
What you can do…
Regarding “vaccines,” which is the absolute bane of my intellectual existence presently - the medical system is totally insane, incalculably dangerous, and completely corrupt. You must detach from it, before it destroys you and those you love. It is warped, twisted, perverted and inverted. Detach from this corrupt, dangerous, and deadly system. I can tell you - alternatives are out there. They are. Small in numbers. But growing every year. These people have realized the system is not designed to work, and have taken their knowledge outside it. That is the smartest fucking thing to do.
When you stop, just take 2 steps back - remove yourself from the “matrix” so to speak, and just look around - the whole thing becomes so clear. But the first step is to take a few steps back. Wait - Grandma never had any vaccines and lived to be 95, but little Timmy has Autism and can’t even sit in his chair anymore, jeez - something went really wrong. What changed, what happened, why are all the kids all fucking whacked out now?
And then you see it - oh fuck - everything I’m being told they say is true - well fuck, it’s all bullshit!
18 vaccines in 1 day - you guessed it - SEVERE AUTISM
here, here, here, here (guess these weren’t safe & effective either)
This is literally the most grotesque story I have ever read.
My heart breaks each time I read it. So a “judge,” is now a qualified medical professional, schooled in industrial pharmacology and bio-chemical toxicology? Exactly which law degree gave him that knowledge? (dark sarcasm)
Now if a “judge” (and I put that in air quotes for a reason), thinks kids not having vaccines is a danger to their lives, wouldn’t the logical form of investigative deduction be for the “judge” to look at the child’s older siblings? Wouldn’t that make perfect fucking sense?
Ok, let me explain this here clearly.
You’ve got a 5 year old healthy kid. Never had a vaccine in his life, and is doing great. Strong, smart, and healthy - walking, talking, playing, eating, laughing, joking, smiling, etc. But the “judge” rules he’s in immediate life-threatening danger from the invisible flying unicorns (viruses) that float around and magically make people develop deathly diseases in childhood. (By the way - if you still believe that nonsensical horseshit - you are full fledged retarded, and you need to go away from normal people)
But here’s the problem with the judges ‘belief’ - all of the kids older siblings never had a fucking vaccine either. And they are all completely healthy. Living life - doing great, strong and healthy, and well into the public school system. Far past ‘childhood,’ and are not (and have not been) sick whatsoever. The kids older siblings are the physical, observable, demonstrable proof standing right there. They are the living manifestation of reality - the absolute quintessential visibly patently obvious proof that this poor kid doesn’t need any vaccines. And they are in the fucking court room. They are standing right in front of the stupid fucking “judges” face. If all his older siblings died of contagious diseases (which don’t exist by the way) in childhood, then you could perhaps make a case for medical countermeasures.
But the kids older siblings are standing right there. Man - they are right there, and they’re fucking healthy and happy. Use your fucking eyes! We always did this. What the fuck is going on now?
God damn it man! What the fuck is wrong with the world? God fucking damn!
The judge in this case reminds me of the Salem Witch Trial Judge (The Crucible).
*And an FYI - soda is garbage and you should never drink it. Ever. But if you pounded 18 sodas in one day, you would be fine. Maybe throw up, spend a lot of time in the bathroom, but no long term permanent brain damage.
So if something they claim is “helpful” or “beneficial” destroys a completely healthy 5 year old child - and turns him into a severely brain damaged quasi-vegetable, then guess what - it’s not healthy, helpful, beneficial, or necessary.