A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises

One of my most fundamental insights into the conditions that we live under, is that with regards to most situations, events and phenomenon, we only have access to our own distorted perceptions, of a very limited amount of the total input that pertains to the situation, event or phenomenon. 

With this in mind, I want to talk about a curious observation that I’ve made, especially among people that are generally regarded as pretty smart. Namely that they often tend to dismiss claims as untrue, because from where they currently stand, they cannot see how said claims could possibly be true. 

Let’s take something that I hear over and over again with regards to “conspiracy theories”. Namely that for certain conspiracies to be true, too many people have to be in on it and there is just no way that no one would blow the whistle. Or that those conspiring would never be able to get along and therefore the conspiracy would fall apart due to internal power struggles. 

Here I want to ask some important questions, aimed at expanding the information-processing perspective. Because so much is dependent on what perspective we take and what questions we ask ourselves.

I’m not saying that what I just said cannot be used to invalidate certain conspiracy theories. Perhaps these are even waterproof arguments against every conspiracy theory that exists and ever has existed. But do you really know this? What do you base such knowledge on? Do you know that there is no possible way to organize a cover-up in such a way, that only a handful of people know what is really going on, even though a large mass of people have to be involved in the totality of the conspiracy? Do you know for a fact that no one has tried to blow the whistle? Can you for example know that all people have basically the same psychology, which would make the cooperation required for the cover-ups impossible? Do you know that there are no ways around such obstacles? Do you even know that everyone that runs the world are humans?

The last question was meant to provoke. But how do you really know? That something sounds too far out to be true has never been a guarantee that it is false. Why do we assume that we know so much more about the world today, than we did 2000 years ago? Hasn’t the whole of human history been one discovery after another, of how little we know about the world and existence itself?

I don’t think that Occam’s razor was meant to be used to discard any alternative explanation to the most obvious one. Especially when we lack firm criteria to determine which explanation is the most obvious one. Is it the one that the majority believes? The one spouted by the mass media and the public figures that function within the establishment? How and why is it so? Do you feel that the people that you put your trust in have earned your trust?

Identity and selective perception Part 2

I believe that once we realize beyond any doubt, that life and the world is more than matter and what we can perceive with the five senses, we need to accept the limbo that we inevitably will find ourselves in when we realize that our current way of perceiving the world will not lead us to the truth. And we need to do this without grasping for whatever new branches that are extended to us. Otherwise, we will just go from one confused view of the world to another, while once again convincing ourselves that we are standing on firm ground. 

This is so important now that consensus reality is falling apart. Otherwise, we will replace the faulty consensus reality with our own, equally faulty, individual reality, or the reality of some fringe group. And in all likelihood, we will sooner or later go out and try to convince others of this reality. 

What has helped me in this confusion, is my absolute knowing that God exists and has a personal interest in us. This belief makes me confident that the truth about what is going on will sooner or later be revealed. Because we are way past the point where what is going on can be written off as mere coincidences, human folly, random greed and power hunger. The world is about to change radically.

Maybe it’s something completely new. Maybe one of the “truths” out there will be proven to be the correct one. Or maybe it will be a mixture of the “truths” available. 

In short: Be careful what you believe and always question why you believe what you believe. Be cautious of the impulse to create an identity around your beliefs and try to be conscious of the fact that your identity always distorts your perception. And if you haven’t done so, a first step might be to ask yourself what your identity looks like, especially in relation to your current worldview.

Identity and selective perception Part 1

The content of this post can be summed up as follows: Our identity shapes how we filter and process information.

This post will be the foundation of much of what I am going to talk about, as I’m trying to make sense of the world.

Let’s start with an example that is a hot topic these days: The term “conspiracy theory” will mean two completely different things to a person who sees him/herself as a down to earth voice of reason that sees through nonsense, and someone who sees him/herself as a truthsayer who sees through the lies of the establishment. And depending on our identity, we will handle information related to the label completely differently.

I gladly confess that I belong more to the latter category and I in no way believe that I’m exempt from these biases (even though I think, for the sake of humility, it’s probably a good thing to stay away from the label “truthsayer”). What makes me believe that I at least have truth a little more on my side than the down-to-earth guy, is that I know for an absolute fact that the world is much more than we can perceive with our five senses. And no debating in the world is going to change this fact. 

So, this is the situation we find ourselves in: We only have access to a limited amount of input regarding a certain situation or phenomenon. We seldom have access to anything that even comes close to resembling the whole picture. And our identity, rather than cold objective reason, plays a huge part in what input we choose to discard and what we take to heart.

Other factors that play huge parts in what we take in, that have no relevance to what is actually true, are how things are being said, what emotional state we are in when the information is presented to us, in what context it is presented, in relation to what other information it is presented and how present we are while we perceive it. To name a few things. But let’s stick to identity here. 

People will also be uncomfortable when we act contrary to our identity, which adds a social aspect to it, where it’s not only us, but the people around us, that help keep us fixed to a certain way of being, which includes how we filter and process information. 

As long as we primarily use our intellects to try and make sense of the world, we will be subject to these limitations.

I don’t know an easy way out of this. The best solution I can come up with, is to cultivate other faculties that we can use to make sense of the world. These would be faculties of perception such as intuition and the ability to sense energies, so that we can get a feel for the energy behind for example a statement. But the danger here, is that we are so used to using our intellects to comprehend the world, that the other faculties are very poorly developed. But this can be changed by practice.

So while developing these faculties, we need to be careful not to fall prey to the temptation of adopting an equally false worldview, when we have been given sufficient reasons to discard the worldview of the majority. Which we will, once we start to question it, while letting go of the idea that reality has to be more or less the way we perceive it, together with fear of ridicule that comes from believing things that many would consider as crazy. When we understand beyond any reasonable doubt, that “down to earth” is the real madness.

The Calling. Part 12

The world is slowly opening up again. So soon we will be back to normal, right? 

Now, I’m no economist. But if you have an already unstable world economy and you introduce a situation, where you shut down the whole of society so that one in five businesses have to declare bankruptcy as a direct consequence of it, take measures that deteriorate people’s mental health, thereby making them less productive and more prone to behavior that costs money for society, pay enormous sums of money to corporations that are going to “save” us and take all kinds of costly measures to handle the situation, make the biggest wealth transfer in history, from everyone else to the richest people on the planet, wouldn’t that have rather serious consequences? And shouldn't those that govern us know this, considering that they have access to all the best experts in all relevant fields? In light of this, do you really think that the actions of our leaders are simply due to fear and incompetence?

And an equally important question: When the consequences come, are you going to trust the people that made the decisions that created the mess, together with the only people that benefitted from the mess, to come up with the solution? 

As I’ve said in another post, I don’t know what I can say about this without being censored. But go to YouTube and search for “world” and “reset” if you want to know more about what I’m talking about. Russell Brand has made great videos about this.

This is not meant to spread fear. Everything is in God's hands and you are infinitely and eternally loved by God. But it's time to start thinking about who to put our faith and trust in. 

Voldemort part 3

Let’s look into our crystal ball for a moment. As with Voldemort, I’m not sure that I can mention this by name without being semi-censored (made invisible) by algorithms. But if you go to YouTube and type in the keywords “world” and “reset” you will find what I’m talking about. Then you can look into some critical voices, such as Russell Brand or Awakening with JP. 

Basically, this project involves most of the major public figures within the criminal elite, whether they are politicians, celebrities, corporate leaders or billionaires from different sectors of society. It seems a lot like the New World Order that “tin foil hats” have been warning about for decades. And this has been made possible through Voldemort, together with other major events, such as the 9/11 attack and the financial crisis in 2008. Coincidence? 

To me, it’s clear that a control system on the internet has been put in place. We leave traces everywhere on the internet. Algorithms control the information that we see. People are being censored and de-platformed. And we police each other by reporting content that is deemed inappropriate. And there will always be someone that reports stuff. The algorithms will take care of the rest. Through the Voldemort crisis, I’ve learned how effective censorship on the internet has gotten, as long as people support and give their consent to it. 

In a very short period of time, people in more or less free nations have gotten used to that the government can take away their freedoms with lockdowns, censorship and pressure to make them comply with taking the proposed solution. They have gotten used to comply with having to prove their medical status. Think about this: most people are now complying with allowing an experimental substance into their bodies without looking into the side-effects, reported or potential, the players that are involved in this or the economy behind this whole thing. And many are angry and afraid of those of us that refuse to do this.

And whether or not you believe that the criminal elite had something to do with unleashing Voldemort on the world, they are definitely the ones responsible for the lockdowns and other restrictions. Thus it follows that they are responsible for the economic consequences of the lockdowns and restrictions.

I wish to conclude this series by asking you to take the following into consideration: If this spiritual awakening is real, which it absolutely is, and the people in power know about it, which they absolutely do, and if it threatens their power, which it absolutely does, do you think that they might want to stop it? Do you think that they might even create a global crisis to stop it and to tighten their invisible grip on the world?

If you cannot even consider that this spiritual awakening might be real, you can discard everything that I say here. It simply isn’t for you. I know that it’s real, unfathomably huge and that it is a serious threat to those that run the world. Because once you go through it, you will know without a shadow of a doubt, that you don’t need any person to tell you what to do. That the only authority you ever need is God and that his will never has to be forced on you. You will know that competitiveness and that someone has to lose for someone else to win are illusions. You will start seeing how controlled and programmed that we all are. And you will wake up to the absolute fact, that you are not a small, solitary, limited creature, destined to live out a short, finite existence between two eternities of absolute nothingness. That you in fact are an immortal spiritual being, unconditionally loved by God and connected to everyone and everything else. You will know that the choice right now, is to either take responsibility for your own life and actions. Or to hand that responsibility over to someone else. And you will know that this choice is the choice between freedom and slavery.

Voldemort part 2

I know that something strange is happening in the world. I’ve had incredible inner experiences. I’ve seen how I’m changing and waking up to who I really am, how we really function and how the world really works. And those that seem to know what is going on say that this thing that is supposed to stop Voldemort is no good. This, I believe, is quite a powerful argument. But what if they do not really know? What if there is something big that is happening, but that those that talk about it don’t really know what it is at all?

As I’m continuing writing this, it’s the fourth of January 2022. I wrote the last paragraph a couple of months ago. Since then, detainment camps for un-vabjrshbuegyadvraevvadf in Australia have been confirmed, which fact checkers just a few weeks ago denied existed. A proposed bill, that would allow the government to detain people deemed threats to public health indefinitely without trial was downvoted in New York. We already know about all the censorship on the internet, many feel that they can trust nothing that comes from society. We have these things in our phones, that we have to show to have access to parts of society. They are now available as chips that can be inserted under the skin, making the warnings from way back, that say that these chips are the mark of the beast seem less and less like crazy religious conspiracy theories. Doctors refuse to report negative effects of the solution to Voldemort (and there are LOTS of them), but are happy to write down someone dying from a car accident with Voldemort in their bodies as caused by Voldemort. Many say that the solution to Voldemort changes one’s genes indefinitely. And yeah, the mass media is pushing the narrative that we who don’t take the solution are the reason that we still have Voldemort really hard, while different measures are being taken, both through political initiatives and among employers, to separate un-vabjrshbuegyadvraevvadf from those that are vabjrshbuegyadvraevvadf. In effect, two classes of people are being created. If you know a little about psychology and history, which loads of people don’t, you will know that such measures can lead to things getting ugly fast. Like murderous-ugly. And if you are a journalist or work with PR, you should definitely know this. And yeah, several countries are forcing kids to take the vabjrshbuegyadvraevvadf through making it mandatory in schools, and Austria has decided to fine those that refuse to take the vabjrshbuegyadvraevvadf. In all of this, America seems to have gotten a president that does not seem to know at all what he is doing, in a way that makes it look suspiciously much as if he is not really the one in charge. 

Furthermore, the biggest manufacturer of the solution for Voldemort has made a deal that absolve them from all responsibility for side-effects. Why would they do that if the solution is so safe? And the solution is still classified as experimental. 

And this is definitely not an exhaustive list of all the insanity.

And let’s not forget that a large part of our society has been shut down for years now. This must have damaged our economies greatly and there is a huge crash coming. One that will be much deadlier than Voldemort. Because the civil unrest will be unfathomable. This Is self-evident. You can’t shut down society in a way that makes loads of businesses shut down and causes the loss of tons of tax revenue, without it affecting the economy. And the economy was unstable before this. 

Now, I’m no economist. But I know that it is possible to pull out tricks that can delay a crash. Which is something that in all likelihood is happening now. But the crash must be on its way. And politicians and journalists must know this. Must have known this when the shut downs were put in place. And I think that maybe people have been so pre-occupied with Voldemort itself, that they have not thought much of the effects on the economy. And even less that the crash that is in all likelihood coming could have been foretold by a five year old. 

In all of this, there has also been a large wealth redistribution that has put more money in the hands of billionaires and less money in the hands of basically everyone else. I wonder what this means in the grander scheme of things, when the crash hits us and our living conditions as an inevitable consequence are radically altered.

Voldemort part 1

So, just like everyone else, this thing that everyone is afraid of, let’s call it Voldemort (because it must not be named), has been occupying my mind from time to time. First of all, I belong to the people that are not very afraid of it. I know the statistics and that it’s very unlikely that I will get seriously hurt. I’m also one of the people that have chosen not to take the thing because I’m concerned with what it might do to my body, as well as to my mind and even to my connection with my soul. In other words, I wish to be open with the fact that so far, I am very skeptical towards taking this thing that is supposed to solve our current situation. But I am a person who values the ability of not making hasty judgments or judgments based on insufficient knowledge. So when I started this series, that I managed to write several parts of before publishing, I did this with the explicit purpose of doing just that: explore the question from all angles, without making any final judgment. However, since I started this, so much has happened and I can honestly say that I will never take the solution for Voldemort.

The Calling. Part 12

It feels weird to say this out loud. But this awakening stuff, whatever it is, is definitely happening. The biggest event in the planet’s history is about to happen and it’s not just some elite club that is part of it. What is happening inside of many people, including myself, right now, is so huge that it will alter the course of history. Unless those that want to stop it manages to do so. And then they will be the ones altering the course of history instead.

I don’t know if the outcome of this is already predetermined or if our choices ultimately matter in the grander scheme of things. Some believe that they have the answers to these questions. I don’t. But now that I do know that, whatever else may be true, these spiritual awakenings are definitely happening, I also understand that it’s something very extraordinary that I and many others have the privilege of experiencing. Something that, as I asid, will alter the course of history.

I want you to pause for a second to reflect on what this actually means. If you are like me, your ego is probably still partially denying that this is happening. It might not feel as real as the maybe not so real reality that you have grown up to regard as the only reality. But this is absolutely real. And if it’s real, and there are people in the world that want it to go in another direction, they would want to stop it.

So, if you’re not going through an awakening yourself, please just ponder the idea that this awakening is actually happening. Couldn’t what is happening in the world right now, where our rights are rapidly being taken away. Where those that have awakened are also the same people that see dangers with the solution to Voldemort (the one that cannot be named), refuse to take it and therefore systematically separated from the rest of society.

The Calling. Part 11

While, as I said in the last post, I believe Christianity holds the key to this reality, I don’t believe that it should exclude learning from other religions. I know for example that the Chakra system of Hinduism is real. I also know that the Buddha said something important, when he said that the root causes of suffering are attachment and aversion. God built these things into our experience of reality. 

There is in general a whole energy system inside, that we can access just by paying attention to it. How could this be wrong? What I’ve come to realize, is that if the Bible gives a clear no no to something, we should listen to it. But the idea that we should try to discern prohibitions that aren’t explicit in the Biblical texts I believe are erroneous. If it, for one reason or another, is important that we don’t do something, I think this will be very explicit in the Bible and if we look at its effect on our lives, it should be pretty clear why as well.

The Calling. Part 10

So, why Christianity and not other religions? I think that the answer is to be found in the person Jesus. His life and example. I believe that he provided a blueprint for how to live in this world. 

At the same time, I’m starting to suspect that there is truth to the statement that we live in multiple dimensions simultaneously. And in other dimensions we might interact with reality in a different way, even if everything is connected. But the best way of interacting with this dimension was exemplified by Jesus.

The Calling. Part 9

It is as if a puzzle is being laid now. That is the best way of explaining it. Many different people get their piece of the truth. Maybe some people get the same piece and maybe all of those people are not going to reach the public with what they are finding out. I don’t know. Maybe, for one reason or another, the pieces of truth are not coming through without interference. Maybe they are distorted somehow. I don’t know.

The Calling. Part 8

WARNING: This is my intellect trying to understand something that it probably cannot understand.

Let’s look at the situation in the world without using any trigger words that may overstep the boundaries of what the new form of free speech that has grown out of our situation ;) allows. And I’m going to start by playing the devil’s advocate for a bit. It’s possible that the situation is more dangerous than we are lead to believe. That would explain the extreme measures that are being taken. But I don’t think that this is very likely, since anything that induces more fear would make people more prone to go for the proposed solution. But if there is some foul-play at work, why doesn’t the propaganda machine say that it’s worse than it is? I’ve thought about this for a while and there seems to be a logical reason. Namely that if the lies were too obvious, someone that knew what he or she was talking about would react to it. And if that happened, the rest might come down as well.

The Calling. Part 7

I know about all the crazy religious talk out there. And I’m seriously not interested in joining the choir that sings about satanic armies of transgender super soldiers. The truth is that I know very little. I only wish to speak of things that I can’t deny and not allow my mind to fly into a bunch of paranoid speculations.

At the same time, I do see that there must be an agenda behind what is happening with all the craziness in the world. In one way or another, the situation in the world is not the way we are told.

The Calling. Part 6

I’m still in a ton of doubt about this myself. But when I look at my own, rather extreme experiences, and what is going on in the world, it seems to ad up. I constantly ask myself if me and my wife are going crazy. If we’ve been caught up by some romantic idea of a post-apocalypse life or the need for feeling special. Or the ego-boost of having access to information or insights that most people don’t. Because both me and my wife are human. And as such, we share many human weaknesses that other people carry. But I know what I’ve experienced. And I’m seeing more and more people that are saying that things are not what they seem with the things that are happening right now. And in a little over a week, I’ve heard four people, independent of each other, talking about the end times and The Book of Revelations. And it’s not because I hang around with people that do nothing but talk about the Bible the whole day. I don’t know any such people. I suspect that I probably should though.

The Calling. Part 5.

I’ve been stalling long enough. So, here we go:

What came to me, was that we are really living in the end times. End time prophecies are being fulfilled right this moment. The prophecies of The Book of Revelation are coming true right now, in our time. 

What might seem paradoxical in this context, is that what also has come to me several times, is that all is well. We’re not here to be judged, but to be healed. Some healing might be painful though, as some of our wounds are severely infected. But we’re all in the end returning to our relationship with God, the way God intends for it to be.

The Calling. Part 4

I’m one of those people going through a spiritual awakening. There are really crazy things happening inside me and with my perception of reality. And I seem to get messages from God in different ways. Crazy, right? If I didn’t have my wife and other people around me to confirm that this is actually happening, plus the testimony from various other people that I have never met, I would be the first one to call the psychiatric clinic and have me committed.

The Calling. Part 3.

On the other hand - look at the world. Does everything seem right to you? Does it seem as if you are getting the whole story? Does the measures taken to stop Voldemort (the one that cannot be named), with the coercion, constraints, censorship and so on seem proportional to what we know about the situation? And isn’t it strange that this happens just when many people are starting to report that they are going through spiritual awakenings that turn their whole lives upside down? Awakenings that make us see ourselves completely differently, and see glimpses of the power within us that we can access when we connect with God on the inside?

The Calling. Part 2.

I am truly afraid of talking about this. Because I know how crazy it sounds and that most people that talk about this are labelled as religious nuts. And I believe that I’m for the most part a fairly open minded person, with an above average capacity for critical thinking and introspection. And I do have my doubts about this, I must confess. But as time goes, I seem to get more and more signs that I’m supposed to write what I’m about to write. So, I might be caught up in strange fantasies. I might even be going crazy. Then again, if it is so, then a lot of other people are going crazy right now as well.

The Calling. Part 1.

I had a strange experience on Saturday the 4^th in December 2021. I was laying in bed next to my wife when my thoughts wandered to all the non-Christians that are talking about their spiritual awakenings, when it struck me that we don’t have to be Christians to be called to Jesus. That all those that go through this are being called directly by God. Most of them just don’t understand this yet (This will probably anger both Christians and New Agers ;)).

As these thoughts entered my mind, I experienced something that I best can describe as fear of God and being shaken to the core of my soul. It was a very physical feeling, as if a storm went through my whole body. I also experienced several conflicting emotions at once and I’m going to try to give an account of them that is as accurate and honest as possible, while knowing that words cannot convey what it was even close to full extent. I might even be labelling the emotions wrongly, because I only have access to my erroneous memory. But the emotions, as far as I can remember them, were deep joy and grief at the same time, with tears flowing from both. It was a feeling of being utterly terrified and safe and held at the same time. I felt that I was completely at the mercy of God. A god that could end my life and do anything he pleased with me. And yet, I knew that this god loved me more than I could ever imagine.

All of this lasted for less than a minute, but it shook me to my core. Afterwards I was in shock and awe and insights that I cannot deny, at the same time as I don’t fully dare to believe them, came over me.

Barcodes, QR codes and the number of the beast

QR codes is an extension of barcodes. Have you ever wondered what numbers the three longer numbers on the barcodes stand for? Probably not. It’s not something that we normally think of. But compare them with the other numbers and see if you can find the answer.

Now, think of the fact that you need a QR-code to prove that you’ve taken the thing that will grant you access to a bunch of stuff in society and that the Bible warns about a mark of the beast that people will not be able to buy or sell without in the end times. Am I being paranoid and conspiratorial? Maybe, but…