We are all aware you must be following guidelines and accept being taught to some degree. You do acknowledge that.
We are born to mimic and we are also born to be basically taught by our parents/guardians to follow certain basic rules.
As a child, Santa becomes real, and the tooth fairy and a whole host of other goodies as well as a whole host of other things such as religious teachings, whether simple offerings or in-depth teaching which are dependent on the culture of people in varying parts of land mass.
This is a little off course but it stands solid as an argument concerning things we are told to believe in life.
There are so many religions. So many gods for religions.
Which ones are true and which ones are not? Are any true?
Does the man or woman on their own who talks to their invisible mentor have any more or less standing in society as those who believe in a god en-mass?
One becomes a nutter and an oddball who is the scourge of society and the masses are the pillars, yet neither see the physical reality of what they're basically bowing to. Or do they, or does he/she?
You and I were schooled into a lot, like most. You follow a lot to this day and generally without much of a fight to any contrary.
You know 100% that people lie. You also know that people in office tell lies.
You know that law enforcement is not always fair and lies get told and people suffer for them.
It's the nature of the beast within us all, generally.
You also know there are so many scientists in life in different stages of authority and you also know there are pseudo-scientists...theoretical/hypothetical...etc.
You also know that you cannot prove anything about what we're arguing about any more than I can prove anything to you in your set ways.
You are willing to overrule your logic in favour of books and schooling in a lot of stuff, as we all do with whatever is on the bigger agenda in life.
It comes with trusting your elders or what you deem as higher authority over yourself.
The truth is certainly out there...but will any of us ever really know it?
We are also acutely aware, that at some point, likely when you get to the stuff you can't readily prove yourself, you must start putting it in the gunk pile.
That depends on the stuff.
The spinning globe in a space vacuum is 100% in the gunk pile and it's staying there.
The shape of the Earth and Earth spinning, is not the first time you arrive at things you can't prove in life, is it?
As above. We can't prove a lot but we can use logic to basically chip away at the illogical stories and that is where I'm at with the spinning global nonsense.
I'm sure you listen to what your doctor says, appealing to his authority.
This is a good one because, yes I do in some respects, and in others I haven't and benefit from not listening.
I can cite many things from many family members, including myself on numerous occasions where trusting your doctor or specified specialist does not always end up being the right choice.
It's a toss of a coin where this matters, I kid you not.
I'd be surprised if you trusted them fully but if you do then maybe you are getting the right treatment or maybe you've been fortunate and have no issues as of yet. I don't know..but I do know there's far too much not to trust about doctors and such and then there's those doctors that are much more trustworthy.
And no, I'm not being paranoid and I'd hazard a guess many on here would back me up on that, whether globalists or not.
I find many doctors are creatures of habit and chancers.
And the so-called specialists in some things are scary to the point where I wonder if their certificates were actually in a lucky bag or bought on a whim.
Unfortunately, a part of this argument is certainly about not appealing to authority, and it is interesting where that begins for you.
It begins with not trusting authority but that doesn't mean I don't disobey authority in many cases.
A child may not trust an abusive parent/guardian but will generally obey, usually out of fear or conditioning and a better the devil you know the scenario, just as it is when you're cast out into adult life and realise your biggest jigsaw is really about to begin.
Most people's jigsaws are already done for them and don't feel the need to look closer at the pieces that were simply hammered in to appear to make a picture of reality.
I find it difficult to believe you appeal to all authority and then when it suits and you arrive at Earth shape, spinning, and outer space, you suddenly draw the line, and a big thick curtain comes across your mind and it's all fictional gunk.
If you sit in a room and listen to 30 stories from men in suits or women in suits or basically some authority-like clothing as we are accustomed to, then do you accept all stories as truth if those stories offer you no proof at all but sound good or do you get sceptical?
If there was a quiz the next day for facts and each quiz question was based on what those 30 people said in stages, would you answer them all as your facts?
Would you then be regarded as a genius if you got them all correct in terms of regurgitating the story parts?
And would you become a genius of facts to many?
Would I have a right to be sceptical of it all?
There is a measure of not being able to prove many things and appealing to authority on those things long before you ever reach the spinning globe.
It's all about each individual and how they absorb a story that offers no proof but lots of interesting titbits.
And then it comes down to how many take the story as factual against those who are on the fence and those who outright dismiss it as anything other than fiction.
If the masses gain the fact mindset then it becomes a fact and the deniers of this become the nutjobs or the conspiracy theorists or the anti-authoritarian...and so on.
You're not dumb. You recognise the world we live in is patterned. Your cell theory is evidence of that.
As far as I'm concerned our world is a living cell among living cells attached to it. And it will be absorbed at some stage and so will all other cells.
But new ones will also emerge.
The issue is it's hard for most to look at that in any serious manner because it becomes laughable when you consider we've been conditioned to believe we're on a spinning ball in a space vacuum just being kept alive by a huge central furnace of a sun...and so on.
Try telling a kid that Santa is not real and it's their parents/guardians that put the presents out at night after spending half the year buying them and also eating a bit of cookie and carrot and whatnot in a pretence of Santa and Rudolf actually eating them.
What's more logical?
An adult would argue it's more logical for the kid to realise they've been duped and Santa isn't real and it was their parents/guardians. But it doesn't work like that and neither does it work like that for adults in a more complex story...but we all like to think we can't be duped.
The only difference in it is, whether we are duped for good or bad or a mixture of both.
Picking and choosing what you will and won't believe about the world you live in from authority, on a whim, is something you could review.
I agree and I do it often.
I always try to read between the lines of a lot of what comes out because I believe there are many closer to truth in a lot of the fiction put out. It's all about doing the jigsaw and that is why I'm where I'm at now.
I may never know the full reality of what we live in but that applies to everyone, in my opinion.
It all comes down to whose logic fits and who sees a better fit out of it all rather than accepting a story of proposed fact based entirely on garnering minds to police minds to become mass peer pressure acceptance based on wanting to be in that comfort zone, knowing there's no proof but not really caring to go against it.
It's a long answer so do with it what you feel.