THE DANGERS OF ROMANCING REALITY

Everyday, from all sides of the information explosion, we are accosted by the nonsense that flows from the outright ignorant and those good humans who refuse to see what a wasteland we live in and keep giving us advice on how to life a good life, how to be successful, how to love...  There is a common resistance to embracing reality.  Here are some recent examples from the news and the media. 

This story was #4 in 2022 at Mind Matters News in terms of reader numbers. As we approach the New Year, we are rerunning the top ten Mind Matters News stories of 2022, based on reader interest. In “Hard problem of consciousness solved?: A 4th spatial dimension?” (April 20, 2022), our News division looks at philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes’ view that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key to the uniqueness of human consciousness.----
STILL the wrong people using the wrong tools and looking in the wrong places. We've known since the 19th century that consciousness is in the social world, a realm of reality still invisible to the core scientific community. Follow Wittgenstein: Take a wider look around. The idea that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key to consciousness is exactly where some religiosi have suggested we should look for God. This is a trifecta failure: the failure to understand consciousness and where to even look for it; the failure to understand God as a collective representation and collective elaboration; and the failure that higher spatial dimensions are not physical locations. Read a book!

 

Nostradamus predictions for 2023:  An antichrist arrives, World War III and the monarchy dies. NEW YORK POST
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Could someone find a way to turn off the pump that’s pouring erasure fuel like this over that little bit of reason we have managed to master? One easy way to stop this particular nonsense (well, not so easy; it requires the ability to read and to read two languages: French and English) is to pick up a copy of Edgar Leoni’s Nostradamus and His Prophecies (New York: Bell Publishing 1982) and READ! It will cure your Nostradamusitis. You can get a used copy on Amazon for less than $5.00 and read it for free at your public library if it hasn’t been banned.  All the “prophecies” in French and English, Notes and Indexes, his will and personal letters, a bibliography of Nostradamus and his commentators, historical, geographical, and genealogical background, a review of theories about him and his method and supplementary material. Strike a blow for reason. 

 

In response to a post on Linkedin that realizing impermanence means that everything is possible: Impermanence is impermanence. It has nothing to do with what is possible or impossible. And it certainly doesn’t mean anything is or becomes possible. The very idea that anything is possible is a misdirection. The recalcitrance of the reality we can know and the Reality of reality-in-itself limits possibility.

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