Notice any awakening?

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Originally Posted by Hatha Sunahara

Don't tell people the facts, ask them questions that help them formulate the answers for themselves. Here's a link to the Walter Burien article:



Hatha

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I have tried that to some extent. I have found that most want the info spoon fed to them from a "trusted news source".

I'm getting discouraged. Seeing a lot of 'perceptive blocks' out of otherwise intelligent people on some of the most simple and self evident truth out there. There seems to be a 'paradox of simplicity' that arises when a reasonably intelligent adult encounters simplicity as truth. My experience is that their natural tendency is to try to intellectualize it away, or worse- claim a complexity to the concept that doesn't exist. Some of the best prospects don't intellectualize, they simply can't or won't grasp simplicity.

dys

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Originally Posted by dys

I'm getting discouraged. Seeing a lot of 'perceptive blocks' out of otherwise intelligent people on some of the most simple and self evident truth out there. There seems to be a 'paradox of simplicity' that arises when a reasonably intelligent adult encounters simplicity as truth. My experience is that their natural tendency is to try to intellectualize it away, or worse- claim a complexity to the concept that doesn't exist. Some of the best prospects don't intellectualize, they simply can't or won't grasp simplicity.

dys

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That's probably because once you know the truth, it seems simple. It's not.

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Originally Posted by Sparky

That's probably because once you know the truth, it seems simple. It's not.

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I have to disagree with you, Sparky. I think the truth is very simple. One of the very first things that I ever learned about the bad guys is that they try to complicate the simple.

dys

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Originally Posted by dys

I have to disagree with you, Sparky. I think the truth is very simple. One of the very first things that I ever learned about the bad guys is that they try to complicate the simple.

dys

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OK, we'll have to disagree unless you can illustrate to me why the truth is simple. We on this forum think we understand, and yet we often can't agree amongst ourselves. It's takem most of us a good portion of our lives to piece together the truth, and we're still working at it. How simple can it be?

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OK, we'll have to disagree unless you can illustrate to me why the truth is simple. We on this forum think we understand, and yet we often can't agree amongst ourselves. It's takem most of us a good portion of our lives to piece together the truth, and we're still working at it. How simple can it be?

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The truth is not that complicated. The great hurdle is not to understand the truth but to overcome our false beliefs that prevent use from seeing. Once we do that, we become embarrassed by how stupid we were not to see the obvious.

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Originally Posted by Sparky

OK, we'll have to disagree unless you can illustrate to me why the truth is simple. We on this forum think we understand, and yet we often can't agree amongst ourselves. It's takem most of us a good portion of our lives to piece together the truth, and we're still working at it. How simple can it be?

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I think what often happens here is that we often argue over the repercussions of the truth or the symptoms of the truth, not the truth itself. And to be truthful (pun intented), I don't think the majority on this forum embrace or accept the truth (but almost everyone here is much closer than the average bear).

dys

A new friend of mine just started prepping, and I'd like to believe I had something to do with that. :) Whether he's in on "the grand conspiracy" is unknown, but there is a sense of unease about the future, and that's a start.

That's great. What'd he start with?

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Originally Posted by MNeagle

That's great. What'd he start with?

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Long term food storage, and then water purification . . . and then heat for the food.