So, this is kind of a response to several of the posts you've made, because you're touching on something rather important, but consider the current reality:
Part of the reason why I posted that old saw about faith and belief being used sustain what logically might sound absurd is because
I am, in my opinion, far far more aware than most people just how easily it can be applied to me. I believe that Truth with a capitol T falls exactly into that category, that it is in fact protected, shielded, and hidden by the simple fact of its immediate unlikelihood. For example, we’re it not for the fact that I had a teacher whose attitude and manner of expression in life struck me as far far different and more advanced than my own, I would never have been able to stick around long enough from the time I heard him express the idea that we hate ourselves, and I can assure you that might be the case for others but certainly not for me, to the time of years later when I actually begun to opened the door sufficiently to experience the hidden pain deeply repressed within me.
And as part of the weirdness worldview the varying psychological experiences I have had, there is this additional impression :
Whenever I hear people speak of reality I experience this autonomic reaction: Here we go again. I am about to hear someone’s opinion expressed as if they are convinced it is true. I used to live in that reality. Now I know the Truth or Reality can actually be something undreamt o
QUOTE="Ventanni, post: 40687471, member: 296363"]Our society administers antibiotics for even the slightest viral cough and sniffle even though they have absolutely zero effect on the outcome. Now, I'm not defending using these drugs to treat Covid, but unfortunately these drugs have been used as political tools to smear Republicans, because that's just the ugly truth of the matter. [/QUOTE]
This is another of those declarations you have accepted as true for reasons. I just am often unhappy with that. What I see is something more like this: Both the thought of and the experience of human suffering is painful and particularly of that nature because it threatened by its penetrating depth to pierce out normal psychological amnesiac state, reaching the intensity of childhood trauma and pulling us right back into it memory and experientially wise. It is thus to be avoided like the pain of death., a pain we have actually all felt.
A result, and one I think has application here, is that we are profoundly psychologically motivated to do anything we can to avoid these confrontations with our fundamental and unavoidable vulnerability and mortality. Not only do we carry a victim mentality around in our unconscious, but also this need to fix things and make them right, and when combined lead to an anxiety and desperation. We demand our doctors fix us and grow paranoid they are withholding the real unconditional love that was so absent for us as children.
This unpleasant fact of human nature is not, then, a fact, but a mental condition, one that a different way of seeing the world can fix.
QUOTE="Ventanni, post: 40687471, member: 296363"]Now Democrats and Republicans are playing a dirty football game with each other in an attempt to gain an edge using these two drugs as the ball, and it's not one we care to watch.[/QUOTE]
For the reasons above, from how I see things, what we are experiencing is those less anxious about thinking someone is actively working against them to keep them from some ego aim are more able to detect the irrationality of those who do. But when that denial itself becomes more threatening to many of those, a counter-reaction of hate and disgust starts setting in. Irrational people can become dangerous, creating more irrationality and a vortex that threatens to suck us all in.
QUOTE="Ventanni, post: 40687471, member: 296363"]Not singling you out here, but it's an interesting sub-conversation started by the mod. You can't use logic when it comes to this stuff. There are dollar signs and only dollar signs. Merck can just as easily state that Ivermectin has zero clinical benefit to treating Covid, when it in fact does, then go behind the scenes, change or perfect the formula, apply for a new patent, and make boatloads more $$$. There are two seemingly opposite "truths" here, and both are potentially correct.
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Yes, but since, if what you claim is correct, that people can justify any straw they grasp onto as some sort of life raft, why bother to cling?