Removing all brown stuff

A personal mission to get the two boxes sorted

I am still full of bullshit.

I am trying hard to root it out, and to not make any more. The more I look in my head library the more I realise is brown stuff: Knowledge filed on “the wrong side.”

In each case I look for the root bullshit, from whence the tree above flowers and blossoms.

The tree, the flowers and the blossoms are often very beautiful, reasonable-seeming, intricate and quite brilliant creations by humble flesh and blood men and women.

Just as Lord Of The Rings is.

But nobody pretends Lord Of The Rings is true.

Nobody says

‘I know for a fact that Bilbo was a Hobbit’

except in the sense

‘I am aware of the hard fact, via personal observation of the text, or from being informed by someone I trust who has done so that in Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings story, Bilbo is a Hobbit.”

Unless they are deluded.

We know Lord Of The Rings is just a story.

But there are many other stories that we don’t know are stories. We’ve been handed them as truth - as the way reality is.

Everyone reading this is at various stages of questioning received wisdom.

Of course! This is all obvious. More waffle from Tim.

What I am trying to do personally is

radically and methodically root out all the stories masquerading as truth (dogma, certainty) in my left hand box

and root out the hard facts I could have checked that I put in my right hand box as story, opinion.

Put all my knowledge in the correct side.

No compromise

For me now

I need to know if I actually know something or not.

I need to know if the piece of knowledge in question is what I call Green Stuff or not.

I thought I was sane

There’s two entirely separate sets of information in my head library - and everyone’s.

I have thought all my life that I had this head library-split carefully sussed.

Until 2020.

There’s facts,

you know, real stuff, true stuff

and pretend stuff of all kinds.

I knew the difference! I wasn’t mad or stupid. I wouldn’t try and fly out of a window.

I was a sensible, feet on the ground, informed, rational, imaginative, logical chap.

I read the Guardian. And New Scientist.

I knew the difference between what I now call Green Stuff and Pink Stuff. You’d better believe I did!

I told those climate emergency deniers in no uncertain terms! I had loads of reliable sources to quote…

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I realised 9/11 wasn’t as advertised long before 2020 - that was as easy one - but every other conspiracy-theory™️ was amusing silliness.

Like many reading this - 2020 changed everything for me.

I hit peak fear and worry the more I found out.

I lost everything. Then I found so much more - came to find a peace, purpose and sense of meaning, fulfilment, celebration. I live in a van and I am happy.

Loads of my all time heroes turn out to have been manipulative, fraudulent, eugenicist, occult-crazed perverted dicks.

Ah well. After a while… it’s no biggie.

Independent people of integrity, honesty, curiosity, scepticism, due diligence are not allowed massive exposure - too dangerous.

(Well that’s my excuse anyway)

A stark realisation

A few things at first. Then more. Major lies. Deep lies! Seminal lies!!

Everywhere!

Then the realisation hits.

Everything in the Green box that we have been given by authority including academia news, international bodies, needs critical sceptical analysis, no exceptions, because it is - in the main - absolute bullshit.

I don’t think you have to be religious or interested in religion or spirituality to understand that God’s creation is another useful term for Green Stuff - a contrast term to Our own creations

- a way of referring to the stuff which is given (data) to us through witness and observation rather than stuff we make up in our own imaginations.

Pride goes before a fall

The treating of our creation on a par with God’s Creation can then be seen as hubris, arrogance, pride as well as insanity and delusion. This is true whether or not any interest in religion is held.

The beautiful trees, and flowers and blossoms

A true rooted on Green Stuff is a fine thing. A beautiful thing.

A tree rooted on Pink Stuff can also be a fine thing and a beautiful thing. More colours even than a real tree! The imagination has no bounds.

No work of the imagination can be as beautiful as a real tree in my experience - despite the former’s literally infinite pallet.

Nonetheless there’s nowt wrong with a pink rooted tree.

But.

A pink rooted tree pretending to be a green rooted tree is a tree whose root, trunk, branches, flowers and blossoms are all bullshit, brown stuff.

No matter how beautiful, reasonable-seeming, intricate and quite, scintillating the tree is, it will wreak havoc.

It is a false map of reality and it will lead people off a cliff.

Delusion

We can look at delusion from the point of view of either of its heads - though each implies the other.

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Dogma (certainty)

It’s a story. We act / reason as if it was real.

Treating pink stuff as green stuff.

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Denial, ignorance

Nobody can help nescience.

If I’ve never come across some information, some green stuff, there’s no shame in being unaware of it.

But ignorance is a different concept. It involves wilful ignoring.

If someone points at hard evidence, green stuff and I dismiss it as opinion, a lie or something else pink, I deny reality in favour of fantasy.

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Every certainty involves the denial of the hard fact that the truth of the idea is just a story.

Every denial involves the certainty - without checking - that the information is not true.

On a deep personal level

I am taking this process really seriously on a deep level.

I don’t know that dropped cups fall. I only know they have so far.

Must a cup fall? Does it matter?

With this case it doesn’t seem that important to note the difference - but it’s the principle, the habit, the no compromise.

I see Faith as blind and central. And equivalent to science / sanity.

Faith: the absence of delusion

Setting science straight

I maintain there’s a casual habitual failure in the citadel of science to distinguish data, truth from story, model, imagined things.

I think colour coding scientific papers could highlight this.

Science: the avoidance of delusion

Removing all brown stuff

I can only echo Mike’s statement:

Everything?

Pretty much. Certainly it’s wise to expect it to be,

and then be pleasantly surprised occasionally.

It will be a truly Herculean effort to clean the Augean stables of Science™️. And our own personal stables may prove as much of a challenge.

Do no harm. Take no shit.

Natural Law. Natural Science. Natural Grace.

Childlike awe. Serpent sharp wisdom.

Thanks for reading

Tim

If you are able to take on a paid subscription I would of course be grateful. I am very poor! (Yawn) I’ve hundreds of super tunes. I’d like to get them up here. Firefighting for vitals gets in the way.