The impending danger our governments put us in (IMO)

[mikkel_the_dane]

"I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible." - Matt Dillahunty.
Both are important. While the radical sceptic doesn't believe many false things (because he believes (almost) nothing), the radical gullible believer believes many true things (because he believes (almost) anything).
There are few things I am 100% sure of but there are a lot of things I am 99.995% convinced of. That's enough to get out of the bed in the morning without worrying if the ground will carry me today.
(And I just recently learned (again) that I can't trust my lying eyes with the pink shoe.)

Well, there is believing nothing and then there is skepticism as not believing in justified true beliefs. Those are not the same.

 

[stvdv]

Unless it's a bomb watch that it may take a second to late to be skeptical, it's best to go off our own conscience.

Yes, that's true, when bombs start dropping you probably go with your instincts

I love your below quote of Albert Einstein, he is a wise man.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. -Albert Einstein

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Yes, that's true, when bombs start dropping you probably go with your instincts

I love your below quote of Albert Einstein, he is a wise man.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. -Albert Einstein

Well, the limit of conscience is that it can't do everything.

 

[stvdv]

Well, the limit of conscience is that it can't do everything.

Humility is indeed a great virtue

We humans are less than a grain of sand in this huge Universe

 

[sun rise]

"I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible." - Matt Dillahunty.
Both are important. While the radical sceptic doesn't believe many false things (because he believes (almost) nothing), the radical gullible believer believes many true things (because he believes (almost) anything).
There are few things I am 100% sure of but there are a lot of things I am 99.995% convinced of. That's enough to get out of the bed in the morning without worrying if the ground will carry me today.
(And I just recently learned (again) that I can't trust my lying eyes with the pink shoe.)

I've lived long enough to have learned about various forms of bias such as advertising supported media being sensationalistic to draw people to pay attention to the commercials. And another is knowing that the regular media does not do scientific and technical nuance for the same reason - reporting ambiguity does not get people riled up or really enthusiastic about whatever the topic is.

So what serves me well is informed skepticism about certain topics avoiding the extremist rejection and gullible poles.

 

[Kooky]

"I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible." - Matt Dillahunty.
Both are important. While the radical sceptic doesn't believe many false things (because he believes (almost) nothing), the radical gullible believer believes many true things (because he believes (almost) anything).
There are few things I am 100% sure of but there are a lot of things I am 99.995% convinced of. That's enough to get out of the bed in the morning without worrying if the ground will carry me today.
(And I just recently learned (again) that I can't trust my lying eyes with the pink shoe.)

In all fairness, every single one of us likely believes many false things regardless of our stance on skepticism.

 

[Heyo]

In all fairness, every single one of us likely believes many false things regardless of our stance on skepticism.

The difference is that some don't care.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

The impending danger our governments put us in (IMO)

This is about masks

I don't know how it is in your country, but in my country they allow knitted masks, so to speak. IF you have a sheet of toilet paper this would be considered sufficient protection, so to speak of.

* I remember our PM speaking on TV, telling us it's sufficient if you make your own mask.
* All the shops are piled up with masks costing maybe 1 dollar for 10 masks

There used to be a time, the good old times, not that long ago, at the start of Corona virus, that people used their brains, that is my opinion of course, how I see it. There were masks that protect against a virus (having a number 95-99% on it), and there were masks that don't have that number, which means they won't protect you against a virus (to be more precise, they don't protect 99%, but maybe 30%, or more likely 10% or 1%, which boils down to something more like a Russian Roulette, if you ask me)

We have proof now, how difficult it is, to brainwash people into believing masks are needed and are effective; many people still even don't believe this

What now, if we get a really deadly virus/bacteria/bug with a death rate of lets say 100%, no exceptions due to a healthy immune system. We all know that there are labs in the world where they work hard, spending millions of dollars, in developing viruses or other small bugs to be used in warfare or terrorism. What if such a bug finds its way out of the lab into the real world; no imaginary Hollywood movie, but the real deal (like anthrax, smallpox ...?)
(Google spat out: As a biological weapon, anthrax has been used in biowarfare and bioterrorism since 1914.)

How do you tell people that their sheet of toilet paper won't work this time (except for wiping the **** from their arse, when the bug got them, creating diarrhea as a friendly starting symptom)? How long you guess it will take before they are using the mask that does protect? Or use other needed ways to protect? Re-educating people is not easy, especially when they know previous info was unreliable or worse, false.

Or do you believe that those masks they are selling in the supermarkets nowadays, are effective and efficient, and sufficient protection against a virus?

Note: Just a thought I had to contemplate on

When Im not looking for it,I find it:

Only other thing Id say is put things in perspective

 

[stvdv]

When Im not looking for it,I find it:

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Only other thing Id say is put things in perspective

True, that's my experience too ... when needed it comes to you
I like the 6 pictures, and indeed "putting things in perspective" says it all