Opinions – They’re like a wet cake of soap.

It’s all about how you handle them.

In our dualistic world, we’re required to be for or against things. Right or wrong, good or evil, love or hate, but is it always one or the other?

Okay maybe for the sake of just getting on with life we need to think something is correct and good or bad but is that the case in every situation.

Savour or Monster? A matter of perspective

The savour or the monster.

In the early 1930’s the German people had great hope in the policies of Adolf Hitler to get them out of the mess created by the Treaty of Versailles resulting from World War One.

While the Germans saw him as a hero, the rest of the world saw him as a madman, hell-bent on world domination and the destruction of civilisation as it existed.

More contemporarily the policies of the US against Cuba since the rise of Fidel Castro in 1959. There are arguments on both sides of each being the hero and the other being the villan. The same can be said for all arguments.

Nothing in nature is right or wrong but thinking makes it so.

Humans like to apportion an opinion on things being right or wrong. It’s right to love, it’s wrong to kill, it’s good to grow, it’s bad to destroy – and as you read those words you already know some arguments on the other side, don’t you?

Seeing is Believing – Not!

I don’t believe anything I don’t see for myself!

“You can tell me what you like but I won’t believe it until I see it with my own eyes”, is what most people think. Sure, a story may or may not be believable, so you have good reason to doubt and seeing it for yourself is one way to tell reality. Maybe!

Seeing it is the reality of knowing it. Sensing makes things real in your life and until then all knowledge is based on what other people share and a certain level of trust of what they know they’re talking about and that is based on your respect of them.

Different colour? – Cover the centre.

You most probably haven’t been to space but you have some understanding of it from what others have shared with in text, video and possible even in first hand conversations. You trust their opinion and credibility so you take their word for the actual experiences of what it’s like to be in weightlessness looking back at the Earth – But it could all be a lie. One giant conspiracy to fool you. How would you possible know?

So it’s necessary to experience everything for yourself to be 100% sure of its truth – Really?

How much of reality do you perceive?

Take vision as an example. You have human sight in the visible light frequencies bounded from violet to red. Above, below and including what is visible is the electromagnetic spectrum, a vast range from gamma rays to radio waves and the visible is one small part of the spectrum and all you can see.

It’s even worse than you ever believed.

You think you’re a lot better off than you are = Complacency.

A new video has come online and gone viral not because it’s another cat drinking from a toilet but it’s shown us we’re wrong. And if we’re wrong, well maybe it’s time to stop being som so damn happy with what we actually don’t have.

We all know the US financial equality is a mix of the poor to the wealthy with the middle class, well, between them. (That’s why they’re called the middle class!) We also know this is currently not the ideal balance of these situations so is probably a little worse. But as the video shows, YOU’RE WRONG.

Oh, how wrong you are!

Guess what? You’re not just a little wrong but a LOT! This shows you the power of the system which is manipulating all of us.

Free Will and Criminal Responsibility

Is a lack of conscious behavior enough to remove responsibility?

The topic of Free Will is one of the fundamental topics for this site. How do we consciously choose anything when ever thought, every action, every decision will be based on our historical physical and mental experiences. If any of those events are varied we would make a different decision. So therefore how can we ‘choose’ something other than what we would choose? We would have to first change the prior experiences then we would be back to square one.

Weighing up the lack of Free Will

Don’t sweat this topic yet, we will be returning in the future. But for now. In a recent article in the Ottawa Citizen it was discussed how the law is starting to come to terms with the changing face of criminal responsibility now that we have the tools to look into people’s neurology. If their brains are damaged are they responsible for their actions, is the basis of the article.

As is mentioned…

Put simply, the argument runs as follows: All behaviour is the product of the brain, of our neurological makeup. While we might believe that we freely choose our actions, neuroscience will eventually demonstrate that those actions are really the product of prior causes, …
…“seems to hold the danger of a world of criminal justice in which there is no blame, but only prior causes.”

I also think people may not be necessarily responsible but…

Qualia – Experiencing Life.

It’s what life’s all about.

Imagine for a moment you cut a lemon, lift one half to your lips, bite deep into it and suck hard! What do you taste? What’s the feeling like? Now think of a glass of your favourite wine or the silky smooth taste of fine chocolate melting in your mouth. How about the sight or the rich deep green of an Irish meadow. What is the sting of a bee or the caress of a lover like?

The feeling, the perception you have in your senses of these things is Qualia. The personal perception of the experiences of the world around you. And one of the hardest things in humanity to share with others. You know exactly what honey tastes like but how do you explain it without using other Qualia terms like sweet? How do you explain sweet?

What a stupid question.

Oh, how many times, when I mention I’m colour deficient, have I heard it asked, “So what do you see?” Followed immediately with, “What colour is that?” as they point to something.

I don’t frigg’n know! I call it blue but that’s not because it is blue, it’s just that we all agree to call that colour blue! And I know when I look at the leaves of a tree, I will call it green and so will they but I’ve had the tests and I know, what I see is not the same as what they see but how to express green so everyone understands? That’s the challenge of explaining any Quale.

Scam World shows how you Loose Everything on a Dream.

I thought something was wrong!

I’d spent years looking for income to support my passion for podcasting and followed many of the best and brightest internet marketing specialists to learn the skills I needed. Sure, I could see there were some scammers out there but there was also great information to help me share what I know. Simple things like how to write well to entertain and get attention. I have my personal ethics and won’t vary from that path so I was distilling the best I could find to help me.

Now, I was aware of some dodgy dealings in the world of internet marketing so I needed a measure of credibility for marketers. Who were their successes? If some were Mums and Dads just wanting to share what they know and help out the world while having a home based business, this would be a marketer worthy of some respect. However if it’s all hype (and we can check now in this age of Google), and no real success as they promise then there is something wrong. This is where I saw the cracks developing and I’ll write much more on this later.

What really blew the door right open was this video…

I’ve seen the tactics shown here in what I’ve been following and this has shown how the whole scam comes together. From this I realised some of the people I followed had colluded to reinforce each other only to strip mine the masses for their own benefits.