When you were little, did your parents tell you that Santa Klaus was on his way to drop off some presents under the Christmas tree? When you lost your first baby tooth, were you told to put it under your

Avoiding cognitive dissonance.

Contradictory as it may sound, sometimes I just can't help but wanting to COMPLAIN about those who COMPLAIN all the time

Today's haiku is a very short riff on the disheartening futility of telling most people the truth.

.. #WassermAuseNdes .. Ach, da ist #Es ja wieder . Und ? Was hat #Es heute geleistet ? Hihi, #Sich geleistet oder wie ? Eher beides nicht .#ISSO , wenn "man" dann plötzlich von drei TierEnden umgeben sich

What if we NEVER have time to do all those things we set aside with the intention of doing "when we have more time?"

The problem we're seeing across both camps of the mask debate is the assumption that there is such a thing as total certainty about various hypotheses. The reality is a range of degrees of tentativeness.

So nothing fancy pants here today, I like to have a reasonable post mostly when I notice I have not posted for a while but you know as much as I try convince myself that I will become some content creator

This came up for me again just now, that THIS is our problem, or at least ONE of the more resistant-to-change problems, that I will here admittedly simplify. From an early age... BELIEFS are drilled into

} I've been reading a lot about this online lately. There's an actual scientific theory that conspiracy theorists suffer from a form of cognitive dissonance. I even heard one person on the radio

Before you watch this video, I want you to know that I understand that many people will be unable to understand or receive this information, no matter how factual and undeniable it is....

rather visit posts with a picture like this one ... than those with the same nuke gif several times a day. No further comment.

For years I have found frustration or sometimes even incredulity when I decide to flip on a mainstream news channel. For so many years it has frustrated me. Why do they keep resorting to worse tactics

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MATHEMATICAL INFINITY, ELITISM AND DETERMINISM V FREE WILL. MAINSTREAM ACADEMIC SCIENTISTS IS THEIR CLINGING TO CONVENTIONAL MODES OF THOUGHT ESSENTIALLY PLATONIC AND EMPIRICAL Albert Einstein who has

Monday means yap yap yap in discord, not so bad it is kinda nice. I have to say that. Work sucked but was uneventful it mostly sucks because it is supposed to suck. Didn't go for a walk today but walked

"Bless me Father, for I have sinned..." Attempting to rub out an unsightly mark from his cassock, the priest does not immediately acknowledge the person in the booth next to him. This has not

So we have decided this weeks word is dissonance and if you look at anything steem then it should be clear. Amongst making my steps which involve swearing at customers and making coffee I also played some

Lately each political tribe's claims about the other political tribe's intellectual and argumentative failings have been really jumping out at me. But here's the truth about your tribe, speaking to all

Finally some use for this shit. Today at work I encountered a news (the article in Finnish only unfortunately), about a Finnish woman who's running a marathon in every single day for a year after ending