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What the Dunning-Kruger Effect shows and how it relates Existentialism and especially Phenomenology is down to speed of thought and action versus, slowing down and observing reality in depth, that is overconfidence as opposed to lack of confidence and checking (scientific methodology). As they say s...

Professor Swaran Singh of Warwick University in the UK, said on BBC’s Horizon documentary ‘Why Did I Go Mad?’ that psychosis is about being a Stranger In A Stranger Land, to quote Robert Heinlein. The suburbs are a battleground (Terra incognita), where discrimination and bullying reign because of is...

Consciousness is just awareness that you and other things / entities, exist

How about TV series? The opening scene of 'The Prisoner' created by Patrick McGoohan and with music by Ralph Smart. 'China Town' and she's my sister and my daughter interchange, between Faye Dunnaway and Jack Nicholson, plus the saltwater in the pond realisation about the murder, plus who can forget...

The trouble with investigating murders is that it's always a dead end I will never ever go to another arsonists house warming party Story of an old person's life: visit Egypt, see Nile and die Conspiracy theorists have brain waves - they wave their minds goodbye as they disappear over the horizon My...

More cartoons than jokes but I will post some of those next

If we are immortal then there is no need to believe in punishment or revenge because any failure is then just a temporary glitch in reality

Reality works in part on the following principle, which is designated as the Accumulation / Discharge Cycle (input / output dynamic). It can be seen in the motion of everything physical and emotional as a vehicle for change. It includes thought and action as opposing pairs, which like electrical pol...

Two points:- Firstly I realised sometime back that we all think something is insane, when we don't understand it and sane when we do (at the point it makes some kind of sense to us). Of course people 'thinking' something isn't crazy, doesn't mean it isn't, through the actions taken not the words use...

I think of Dabrowski and his theory of positive disintegration as I like a volcano, where lava is the unformed, undifferentiated, potential in everyone and certainty the volcanic cone or differentiated and compartmentalised (crystallized layers of reality): stillness and motion. It is like shuffling...

In his seminal book, God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens may have missed the point that the sins of the fathers being passed onto successive generations, is true of psychological and physical abuse as with Fred and Rose West, plus venereal disease but original sin cannot be placed in this categor...

I have made a stab at deconstructing English, which has had about 25,000 hits (as it is freeware) but has led to little interest in the language book series itself. Is this because it has reduced letters, syllables and words to pure mechanics, instead of stories and would only linguists find such ma...

Prejudice (hate) in action is about finding and exploiting someone's weakness, be it class, education, culture, religious or political beliefs etc. It is not just race, sex, sexual orientation, even though these are the main and obvious contenders. It is divide and conquer tactics. It is clothing yo...

The need of whites to persecute blacks in America is based upon the need to justify their poor treatment of them throughout history. If they are seen as bad then the treatment they get, is seen as what they deserve. Look at the Jews in Europe and how the Nazis verbally vilified them to justify their...