You really don't know me. I love reality exactly as it is and have no desire to change a thing about it, or ever change anyone else. It's not that I care what you think about me, because I don't care, but there may be others easily misled by the belief the world needs to be changed. It doesn't.simplicity wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 5:01 pmSo you were misdiagnosed by three doctors and then correctly diagnosed. And because of this you are willing to stand in judgement of the millions of health care professionals in this country, many who have sacrificed a great deal of their lives so they can help people in significant ways? What, is this all about you? How about the hundreds of millions of people who have received wonderful care from these people? You are acting like a woke 20 year old Ivy League college student who is complaining about how unfair life is.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:59 amWrong tactic. I was nearly killed by three physicians, before I did my own research and discovered Doctor Walter Lever of the New England Medical Center. I was dying from a fatal auto-immune disease and all three doctors misdiagnosed my disease.
No shit. This has been going on since the 80's when the corporate/government cabal finally took complete control of the system. One might believe that people like yourself would think more highly of health care workers because they must work in such a horrendous system, but no, you see only the bad. You have no idea how incredibly caring the vast majority of health care providers are.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:59 amI cannot think of a field today where there is more incompetence. Very few doctors are truly interested in medicine and only in gaming the system. The entire medical field has become a crooked cartel, a government enforced coercive syndicate that prevents individuals from seeking and paying for their own medical treatment. I truly hope you are not part of that.
You are correct, I do not know you, but you have revealed what you are about. Like most people who frequent the edge, you are nothing more than a cowardly hypocrite whining about how horrible everything is and blaming everybody else for not presenting you with a world as you would like it. Perhaps you should take a step back and give thanks for the good you have been able to enjoy, as well.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:59 amYou have no idea what my own experience with others has been or what I have or haven't done with others, but it doesn't matter. You've already proven you judge others without evidence, which is your loss. I certainly don't care what you think of me.
It is, in fact, the belief that the world is not what one would like it to be that has been the cause of all worst tragadies in history of men attempting to force their views of what the world ought to be and how others ought to live on the world.
From my article, "Wonderful World:"
There is nothing wrong with the world, and all the harm and suffering in it is primarily caused by human defiance of reality, because reality is difficult and demanding and most of humanity hates it, so they embrace any ideology that promises them their dreamed of utopia, then wonder why they are never happy or successful.George Bernard Shaw said, "The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world."
It seems strange that a socialist made that observation when almost everyone in the worlds of politics, academia, and popular media is concerned with making the world a better place. An old time preacher once said, if the world smells bad to you, it's probably your own smell that's offending you.
There Is Nothing Wrong With The World
Whenever I make the claim, that there is nothing wrong with the world, I am always asked, "How can you say that? The entire history of the world is dominated by earthquakes, floods, famines, plagues, disease and natural disasters as well as endless human cruelty, oppression, wars, and terrorism."
That's all true and most human beings continue to suffer or die as a result of all those, "terrible," things. Yet, history is also the record of those who not only survived all those natural and man-made horrors, but prospered and succeeded, discovering the nature of the world and creating all the things that make lives worth living possible. The prosperous and successful, the innovators, inventors, discoverers, and creators throughout all history have always been the exceptional and few in number—the few who lived not to evade suffering and death but to achieve and be all they could be as human beings enjoying life to the fullest.
From my article, "Ideology—Hatred Of Reality:"
You certainly don't have to look at those articles, but if you don't, you are going to look very silly claiming to know what I think or believe to those who know me.Every ideology is some form imagined ideal world one would like it to be and an attempt to force reality to conform to one's desired view of that world. But reality is ruthlessly intransigent and cannot be made into anything it is not. Since truth is that which describes any aspect of reality as it actually is, every ideology is in defiance of the truth.
The majority of mankind despise the truth. They will readily embrace what passes for truth as taught by the academics and their ideological authorities, who use the methods of reason, not to discover the truth, but to evade and obfuscate it. They hate the truth because it describes reality as it actually is.
Reality is immutable, absolute, and ruthless. Immutable means the nature of reality cannot be changed or ever be other than what it is. Absolute means reality is complete and unconditional; it is all there is and is not contingent on anything. Ruthless means reality determines what is true and not true, and no human feelings, desires, choices, acts, beliefs, wishes, or ideologies can change it.
Here's a shortcut--my article here on PhilosophyNow, "What I Don't Believe," which includes this:
Believe it or not, I'm not your enemy. I just do not agree with you and personally believe your beliefs will be harmful to you. They certainly do me no harm.I have no interest in convincing anyone else to adopt my views (or any views). One should never accept any view as correct if their own best reason from the best evidence available to them does not convince them it is true. It is better to remain ignorant than to fill a gap in one's knowledge with what is not true.I have no interest in convincing anyone else to adopt my views (or any views). One should never accept any view as correct if their own best reason from the best evidence available to them does not convince them it is true. It is better to remain ignorant than to fill a gap in one's knowledge with what is not true.