Brain tweets

Brain

everybody’s compulsively looking for a mate with specific positive & negative traits. this comes from your “old brain”.

ok so, brain stem oversees reproduction, self preservation & shit like circulation, breathing, contraction of muscles, etc.

this is what some call, reptilian brain. it’s called that because all vertebrates including reptiles and mammals  share this piece of anatomy.

then you got ya limbic system. this is where the chemicals that we call, emotions, pop up.

“old brain” is what connects ya brain stem & limbic system. this is where you’re hard wired at. where them automatic reactions were born.

last piece is ya cerebral cortex. this is where ya cognitive functioning is at. most highly developed. this ya new brain.

this where you make decisions, think from, observe with, create at, organize info wit, etc

ya whole life is new brain vs. old brain but you don’t eem know it.

new brain’s logical, cause and effect type shit. old brain…you’re barely aware of. and old brain gets it info from new brain kinda.

see, the new brain sees me and you. Edwin and Lynn. John and Suzy. etc.

old brain sees someone to help, be helped by, fuck, fear, give in to, kill. faceless blobs

basically, the old brain makes its decisions based on mostly shit from way early on when you were an infant. but it uses that info today.

new brain sposed to tell old brain “nah this person’s cool. I know em”, because old brain smells the perfume & it’s reminded of a trauma.

then old brain goes into self preservation mode to protect you and makes you go through the above 6 choices, you feel fear, so you jet.

old brain always says “is it safe?” and if it goes into the mode of not safe, you’re not gonna hang around. even if it defies logic.

what’s the point? that a lot of times that you’re reacting to things a certain way & can’t explain it, it’s old brain shit b.

sooner you figure out what truly ever happened to you when you were a baby or soon after, easier it is to see why you act a certain way in certain areas.

old brain doesn’t know what linear time is. to it, what was still is. understanding this further helps you be able to see why you “flip out”

in the old brain, then and now live side by side yo.

we all seek a mate that has the predominant traits of whoever raised us. let this sink in.

when you find those traits in someone, old brain says “aaahhh someone to repair the psychological damage i experienced as a child.”

we felt Oneness before, in the womb. everything you needed came through fluid exchanges instantly. you were free from desire. soothed.

then you were here and what you need instantly, didn’t come. we seek that Edenic experience again our whole lives.

babies don’t “see” they’re separate beings like we’re programmed to. babies see a universe with no boundaries. they don’t know…division.

ppl run around unfairly expecting their partner to fulfill this Oneness feeling we’ve all felt. when partners can’t, we get unhappy.

problem is…your partners aren’t supposed to give you that reconnection to Oneness. that’s why they can’t. only you can yo.

but that’s just fucked up programming and being susceptible to the old brain only.

to do something correctly, you gotta know what you were doing incorrectly first.

we’re all emotionally injured.

babies tells the outside world they’re distressed by crying, since it’s their only form of communication until speaking

a baby has no sense of delayed gratification & no way of taking care of itself so a parent unable to “solve” a baby’s crying, fucks it up

most parents fuck up. there’s a way to equip a baby with self soothing. when a parent fails at it, everything becomes life & death to a baby

and that emotionally injury roots itself into a baby’s old brain, which resurfaces repeatedly in that baby as a teenager and adult.

that’s why I be saying, there’s a lot of infant adults walking around. you see them tweeting all day. they don’t eem know it

once you figure that shit out & self equip yourself with “I’m ok” then you no longer have the old brain “the world’s not safe” shit

and then you, really control you b

 

my Sandy Hook tweets from February 2013

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ppl still question Sandy Hook being a setup like they question the government’s ability to kill its own citizens. “impossible!”

it’s possible.

yo Robbie Parker laughing before he did his press conference about his daughter Ellie who was killed the day before #SandyHook

Adam Lanza used an assault rifle to kill all those kids? odd. apparently, the assault rifle he had was found in his car afterwards

yo man!! the same day of #SandyHook these dudes were training FOR a Sandy Hook type event?!? #iCant 1.usa.gov/W5Ybx8

yo man!! the same day of #SandyHook these dudes were training FOR a Sandy Hook type event?!… instagr.am/p/VaTm0slPSr/

on 9/10/2011 FEMA arrived in NYC to train for planes hitting buildings. what happened the next day?

on 12/14/12 Homeland Security of Connecticut was supposed to be in training for a disaster with kids. what happened the next day?

Sandy Hook was a giant movie set B.

i’m saying no children probably died. if some did, it wasn’t 20. it wasn’t by some lone gunman kid. and there was agenda.

http://www.ct.gov/demhs/ical/eventDetail_page.asp?date_ID=CAC9C6C9CD83CDC9C7… seriously. click this link. #SandyHook

“In my cache you will find several small arms. All of these small arms are manufactured by Cerberus/Freedom Group.” – Christopher Dorner

“The same company responsible for the Portland mall shooting, Webster , NY, and Sandy Hook massacre.” – Christopher Dorner

the Ellie Parker Facebook page might still be up but the other ones were taken down & recreated after 12/14. i saw the pages then.

the video in YouTube with over 10 million views has footage of the FB pages and i tweeted the homeland security page yesterday….

…which was about a training exercise scheduled 12/14 to deal with “children disasters” 20 minutes from Sandy Hook.

“so what are you saying Echo?! that our own government would stage scenarios where they fake deaths & sometimes kill their own citizens?!”

“you think the government would go to these kind of lengths to pass legislation & to trick the ppl into giving up civil liberties?!?!”

EXACTLY.

Spanish-American War. Vietnam. Pearl Harbor. OKC bombing. Atlanta Olympics. 9/11. Sandy Hook. and on and on and on…

if you’re still the person that believes there’s no way our own government would do anything to harm us…go back to sleep.

remember all those dead bodies we saw at Sandy Hook? wait.

remember when we saw Saddam Hussein’s body? wait.

remember when we all saw Bin Laden’s body? wait.

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Drake Finds Out What People Really Think of Him

Gawker:

Drake the type to put on a disguise and interview people about himself.

Fresh from being picked to host the ESPYs, rapper Aubrey Drake “Wheelchair Jimmy” Graham starred in a special edition of Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News, going incognito in a wig and fake beard to ask people what they thought about Drake.

Consensus: He’s not a “real rapper,” but Drake definitely the type to air his sex tape at Coachella, publicly urinate in a Baby Gap, or burst into tears while hosting a sports award show.

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i fux with Drake from day 1. ok day 4. he grew on me. unsigned rappers hate Drake because they fear a kid off Degrassi got bars to bury em

gotta love how Drake basically gave himself away to ol boy who kept saying Drake was an idiot. and THAT idiot didn’t catch that it was Drake

hey Aubrey killed SNL when he hosted and now he’ll host the ESPY’s. i hate on no man.

 

 

M-theory and Fractals tweets

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fuck it, i’ll do this as simply and with as little tweets as humanly possible.

Paul Steinhardt out of Princeton once spoke about the ekpyrotic model. M-theory basically which is multiverses. meaning more than 1 universe

in M-theory, fundamental objects are 2-dimensional membranes living in 11-dimensional space-time. I’ve gone over how there’s 11 dimensions.

M-theory says that our universe, and others, come from collisions between membranes in this 11-dimensional space.

and these universes can have completely different laws of physics – anything is possible; all potentials can be realized yo. super ill

like, in the room you’re in, there could be one of these 11 dimensions inside of it where a parallel “you” exists, right next to you right now

now imagine before the Big Bang our universe was made up of 2 perfectly flat four-dimensional surfaces in distance from one another, in Planck length.

in physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length, equal to 1.616199(97)×10−35 meters. really small.

a hydrogen atom is about 10 trillion trillion Planck lengths across. physicists primarily use the Planck length to talk about things that are ridiculously tiny.

now, random fluctuations in this unseen parallel universe caused it to distort, and start “reaching” towards our universe.

and then 13.8 billion years ago, these 2 out of 11 dimensional universes, “touched”. collided. that made one big explosion. we call it the Big Bang.

our visible universe could be one of these “parallel universes”, crammed into the unseen space between each dimension.

now to go back to arm movements and fractals…fractals usually form by opposing spirals, creating standing waves. and these spirals…

…contain the Golden Mean. it’s one of the most important mathematical structures in existence. it’s everywhere. on you. in you. around you.

your shoulder movement contains the larger spiral which is a vortex, and the elbow fractal is within that vortex, and to the fingers, etc..

fingers operate in the context of the wrist, the wrist in the context of the elbow, etc. this is a very efficient system. and…

…it’s how many say our universe works after having a collision with a parallel universe 14.8 billion years ago creating everything you see.

and these other dimensions still exist. some might be as large and observable as this one, and some might be curled up into Planck length.

again, parallel YOU might be right next to you right now, and you’re totally unaware of each other’s existence. but how you function…

…is how this particular universe functions. fractals. mathematics. the blueprints for how this universe was born and was made, is in you.

it’s on you. on your elbow. look at it in the mirror. look at all of your joints. you’re the universe. you’re old. lol

there’s an almost infinite number of probabilities every instant of your life and that’s only in this one dimension. let that blow your mind

i believe this universe is infinite. this has yet to be proven or disproven, but i’m confident that there is no end to my Self.

the infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. so even if we’re in 1 universe of a multiverse, i myself go on and on and on

want an example of unity? look at sunlight through a prism. unity can be found within nature but y’all on twitter debating lightskin and darkskin. smh

you are unity. you are infinity. you are love/light, light/love. you are. muthafuckin dig that.

Question Everything

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Look man, I don’t believe everything I read so I do not expect everyone who reads my blog posts or tweets to believe it all either. Shit…I HOPE I get feedback, commentary, challenges, etc.

But know this. Whenever I get an itch to know something or something seems odd…I dig deep. If i see a camera on a building that just looks out of place….I go inside and ask “who requested that to be put there” or “how long has that camera been there”, etc. If I see barbed wire that looks out of place on a government building where it shouldn’t be, I ask somebody in that building about it.

I remember driving one day way up north in Cali past Santa Barbara to see my girl’s Dad play piano, and in this tiny town off the water that looked like it had 20 people living in it there was a general store, post office, etc., and one Masonic Temple. THAT’S IT! Just sitting there amongst the barns, tumbleweeds and gift shops. Best believe I checked on what Chapter they were, and how long they were there.

If I see an exhibit with some peculiar finds in it in a museum halfway across the world…I may not be able to afford to fly to that museum and take a look at inscriptions and stuff in person, but I write them like crazy about sending me pamphlets, pictures and whatever other information they have to send me. I then dissect it all and make my own assertions as to what the hell this new exhibit has in it and where the dig was. I find out about who commissioned the archaeologists, what University they went to, who their parents were, etc.

Everything MEANS something and nothing “just happens”. I’ve certainly opened my own eyes on many occasions going off a hunch, when something looked out of place or felt odd. 9 times out of 10 the “link” that I feel exists there, is correct, and whatever drivel I was given by whoever, turns out to be false.

I am just saying don’t be naive but, at the same time use your god given baby naivete to question everything. There is nothing wrong with “why is the sky blue” questions. Eventually…you’ll know why it’s blue. FYI…a clear cloudless daytime sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light more than they scatter red light because the red spectrum is light is much farther away than blue. See? Helps to know things.

FDR proposed a 2nd Bill of Rights

In 1944, President Roosevelt (just about a year before his death), the war having taken its toll, addressed Congress in his 11th State of the Union message. At one point, FDR proposed a 2nd Bill of Rights,  so to speak, that would cover American’s rights where the The Bill of Rights had left off, or covered insufficiently. Of course, he did not intend for a change in the US Constitution, but rather these implementations would be enacted “politically” through legislative change.

Here is perhaps the most poignant message of the speech, as an introduction to his proposed bill of rights “addendum”…

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

Here are the rights that would compose this new proposition (The one’s that I feel most important, I have highlighted)

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

DC-Area Student, Avery Coffey, Accepted at 5 Ivy Leagues

 

 

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Posted: March 30 2014 7:42 AM

Last week, the nation heard about 18-year-old Chad Thomas, a senior at Booker T. Washington Senior High in Miami, who received 150 scholarship offers for his prowess on the football field and ability to play nine instruments.

This week brings Avery Coffey, a senior at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., who applied to and was accepted at five Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania, according to Fox News.

Four have already extended very generous financial aid packages, while Harvard is still crunching numbers to formulate its offer, the article says.

Coffey, who boasts a 4.3 grade-point average, grew up in a single-parent household in D.C.’s Ward 8, one of the poorest areas in the city. His mom works as a technician at Children’s Hospital, the report says.

“You can go anywhere you want to, pursue any career that you want to, and you shouldn’t let anybody hinder you from trying to reach your goals,” he told Fox News, giving advice to younger students.

Coffey, who plans to major in finance, hasn’t yet made up his mind about where he plans to enroll. But he’s giving close consideration to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, the report says.

Banneker is known for its strict rules and policies. None of its 439 students is allowed to bring cell phones into the building. Nor are they allowed to access their lockers during the school day, a measure designed to discourage loitering in the halls.

Kwasi Enin was accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges

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Greg Toppo, USATODAY 5:08 p.m. EDT March 31, 2014

In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall?

A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y., the 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale.

The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he’d been accepted to every one. School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight on Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin.

The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation’s most elite.

“My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight,” says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd High School, where Enin attends class. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she’s never seen anything like this. “It’s a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary.”

For most of the eight schools, acceptance comes rarely, even among the USA’s top students. At the top end, Cornell University admitted only 14% of applicants. Harvard accepted just 5.9%.

But Enin has “a lot of things in his favor,” says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm.

For one thing, he’s a young man. “Colleges are looking for great boys,” Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage.

He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Island’s south shore. That puts him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of 2,400 points, puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students.

He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by the time he graduates this spring. He’s a musician who sings in the school’s a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospital’s radiology department. Enin plans to study medicine, as did both of his parents. They emigrated to New York from Ghana in the 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby. Both are nurses.

Being a first-generation American from Ghana also helps him stand out, Cohen says. “He’s not a typical African-American kid.”

Enin says he got the idea to apply to all eight in 10th or 11th grade, discovering that each has “their own sense of school spirit” and other qualities he liked. He also applied to three State University of New York campuses and Duke — and yes, they have all accepted him.

In a phone interview, Enin said Princeton so far has offered the most generous aid package. But he has yet to get offers from Columbia, Cornell or Harvard. Either way, he’ll need to accept a place in the class of 2018 somewhere by May 1. He wants to pursue both music and medicine.

Cohen says he’s “sitting in a very good place right now — I think he can negotiate the very best financial aid package he can get” at his top-choice school. “Almost any of them would do anything for this type of candidate,” Cohen says.

She advises that Enin call or write each of the eight and let them know that he’s got a slot in each other’s freshman class. They’ll compete to get him to show up in the fall.

Once he decides, she says, he should write letters to the seven runners-up saying he’s “honored to have been admitted.” After all, he’s got to keep his options open for graduate school.

Earthquake Kits

Here are lists of supplies to have at home, in the car and at work:

At home

• Nonperishable packaged or canned food

• A gallon of water per person per day (Replace every six months and count pets as family members)

• Manual can opener

• First aid kit and handbook

• Clothing, rain gear and sturdy shoes

• Blankets or sleeping bags

• Portable radio and flashlight, with spare batteries

• Essential medications

• List of family physicians and the style and serial number of medical devices, such as pacemakers

• Extra pair of eyeglasses

• Extra set of house and car keys

• Toilet paper, toiletries and feminine hygiene items

• Fire extinguisher

• Pet food, water and leash or carrier

• Cash and small change

• Water purification kit or unscented liquid bleach (eight drops per gallon when water is first stored)

• Any special foods and supplies for babies, the disabled or the elderly

• Plastic eating utensils, paper cups and plates

• Heavy-duty aluminum foil

• Paper towels

• Knife or razor blades

• Candles and light sticks

• Matches in waterproof container

• Work gloves and broom

• Hammer and nails

• Coils of rope and wire

• Ax, crowbar and shovel

• Small tool kit

• Cheesecloth (to strain water)

• Large and small plastic bags

• Two tarps, 8 feet by 10 feet

• Local street map and compass

• Paper, pens and stamps

• Entertainment pack of family photos, notebooks, reading material and games

In the car

• Nylon tote or day pack

• Bottled water

• Nonperishable food

• Manual can opener

• Transistor radio, flashlight and extra batteries

• First aid kit

• Gloves

• Blanket or sleeping bags

• Sealable plastic bags

• Moist towelettes

• Small tool kit

• Matches and lighter

• Walking shoes and extra socks

• Change of clothes

• Cash (small bills and coins)

• Local street map and compass

At work

• Dry food, such as candy bars, dried fruit, jerky and crackers

• Water or orange juice

• Tennis shoes or walking shoes

• First aid kit

• Flashlight and portable radio with extra batteries

• Matches

• Small and large plastic bags

• Toiletries

• Entertainment pack of family photos, notebooks, reading material and games

See The Elephant

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It’s natural to protect ourselves from information we perceive as threatening. But it can be a big monkey wrench in seeing the elephant and recognizing God.

Four blind men encounter an elephant. One grabs the leg and concludes it is a tree trunk. One holds the tail thinking it is a whip. Another touches the elephant’s trunk and decides it’s a hose and the fourth man pats the side concluding it’s a wall.

The wise man tells them, “All of you are right.”

The first time I heard this parable, I thought it was illustrating that truth is relative. Here are four different people, each one coming away with very different conclusions.

Years later I realized the story conveys exactly the opposite: truth is objective. After all, is there an elephant? Of course an elephant is there! That is the objective reality, independent of anyone’s viewpoint.

Truth is complex, multi-faceted, and at times very difficult to fully grasp. But it’s not relative. There is truth out there; we just need to figure out what piece of the puzzle we’re holding onto.

The four blind men fell prey to a common mistake: reaching conclusions without sufficient information. Based on an elephant’s trunk alone, it is unlikely anyone will come to an accurate conclusion.

The four blind men should talk to each other and share their information. By putting all the pieces together, a clearer picture will begin to emerge and some initial conclusions could be made: this is not a piece of furniture, it’s definitely a large four-legged animal. With more and more information the picture will eventually sharpen, revealing the identity of the elephant.

The Hebrew word for truth, emet, is comprised of three letters, the first, the middle and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, because truth is a composite of the whole — the beginning, the middle and the end. In order to come to a just verdict, a judge tries to get as complete a picture as possible.

Seeing the elephant is by no means easy. It requires an openness to challenge our axioms, assumptions and beliefs. A genuinely open mind can be daunting.

CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS

Let’s take for example the blind man who mistakenly thought he was grasping a hose, not a trunk of an elephant. We’ll call him Mr. Gray. Based on his discovery, Mr. Gray goes on to write best-selling books on the nature of “hose,” becoming a famous, successful author and frequent guest on the talk-show circuit. He establishes a chair in a prestigious university dedicated to researching the nature and benefits of “hose.”

One day there is a knock on his door. “Pardon me, sir. Are you Mr. Gray, the author of The 7 Secrets of Hose?

“Yes I am,” he proudly answers.

“Well I have some very important information for you, Mr. Gray. I don’t know exactly how to tell you this but … you got it all wrong! You weren’t holding a hose. You were holding a trunk of an elephant!!”

How does Mr. Gray react to this information? Does he say: “You mean to tell me I’ve been making a mistake all these years? Gosh, it’s a good thing you told me! How can I ever thank you?!”

More likely Mr. Gray slams the door on the guy’s face. It is a natural reaction. We want to protect ourselves from information we perceive as threatening, especially when we sense it may be true. Mr. Gray instinctively throws up a defensive barrier attempting to shut out the truth that has come to tarnish his reputation and career.

Only computers assess data devoid of all emotion. Our volatile emotional world often clashes with our rational intellect. When faced with consequences we perceive to be potentially painful, whether it’s a wounded ego or a difficult change, the heart struggles with the mind. It doesn’t matter if those negative consequences have nothing to do with reality. When feeling threatened, our knee-jerk reaction is to shut all systems down, reject the data and override our desire for truth.

NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

This is called cognitive dissonance. It is the major monkey wrench in seeking the truth — and no one is immune.

The discovery that the earth is round was initially rejected, even in the 17th century when Galileo presented undeniable proof through the usage of new telescopes. Without understanding gravity, people could not comprehend why they were not falling off the earth. Accepting this bizarre notion was too unsettling, and besides, who likes to admit that they’re wrong? It was much easier for people to just ignore the facts.

The Torah recognizes that everyone is prone to bias:

You shall not pervert justice, you shall not display favoritism, and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe will blind the eyes of the wise and distorts words that are just. (Deut. 16:19)

The Torah is addressing all of us. Anytime we make a decision we are in the position of being a judge, and we need to check the subtle and not so subtle bribes that cloud our thinking.

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND GOD

When it comes to recognizing the existence of God, cognitive dissonance can be a tremendous obstacle. Rightly or wrongly, many of us view God in ways that can make Him a real turn-off. Some of the more common negative associations people may have with God are:

  1. God, the Killjoy.

    The existence of God presents an unbearably high standard of morality which snuffs out freedom and unadulterated fun.

  2. God, the Tyrant.

    With so much pain and suffering in the world, it seems that God sure has a lot of explaining to do. War, starvation, domestic violence, natural disasters -– what kind of God is this?

  3. God, the Unknowable.

    There’s something out there that I can’t understand!? I’m supposed to relate to a dimension that is beyond me? We have free will and yet God knows everything? How can I live with paradox? I give up.

  4. God, the Unfashionable.

    Take a leap of faith and have everyone think I flipped my lid? Actually pray and take this religion stuff seriously? No, thank you. Religion is outdated and not for me.

Since cognitive dissonance can be so strong when dealing with the issue of God’s existence, it is important to be aware of its influence.

It’s a struggle to attain objectivity. How do we overcome internal bias? Are we hopelessly lost within our own subjectivity?

Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler writes:

… bias never entirely obscures the truth. Even after the desires of one’s heart have persuaded him to accept the false way as true, he still knows in his heart of hearts that the true path is “truer” than the other one. He accepts falsehood as a substitute for the truth, not as truth itself … Every human being thus has the faculty of determining in his own heart where the real truth lies. (“Strive for Truth: The Truth Perspective”)

We never lose the objective part of ourselves. Even in the midst of an argument when our emotions flair, we know that if we really wanted to we could force ourselves to be objective and hear the other side. We could even admit we’re wrong.

In spite of the fog, we can still be honest. It’s not easy, but when we decide that truth is always in our best interest, we are motivated to rise above the emotions and to work hard at ensuring that our mind is out in front leading our decisions.

Let’s go find that elephant.


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