https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbiE2zKogV8

Ive done chosen. I dont recommend it. Isnt faith and magic two different things. One is an frame of mind the other is a result of something.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you engaged me, via my comment.

Why are you even blatherings…if it is not reasoning, then tell me what it is that you doing…dog piling like the rest.

Then you go on to say…

“Why do you think the world is that important, that it must be engaged by action. that it must be addressed at all?”

Is this not reason asking for a response to your closed mindedness of the world and taking action in it.?

“Education has trained modern people to be inactive. […]”

Education is what brings us to action, a mind that is armed with a knowledge is something to behold.

Who said it was reasoning?

“Why do you think the world is that important, that it must be engaged by action. that it must be addressed at all?”

Because the alternative is to live like a brain in a jar – just cogitating all the time. Action defines being – Descartes had it wrong. “I think therefore I am” is a justification for passivity.

Education has trained modern people to be inactive – sitting in a classroom all day, thinking, not doing. It has created a new kind of person, capable only of reacting to messages delivered by the media.

I think I am finally letting go of some of my anger also, Greg – a guy can spin his wheels for only so long before he begins to burn out.
( I do reserve the right, however, to pull it out of my quiver when necessary!) ????

Also, regarding your praise of Jon’s unique methodologies and perspectives…HEAR, HEAR!

Models are imitations, representations, facts on the other hand speak to specifics as the most truthful knowledge at the time that one can have of a concept or a thing. They are not simply building blocs…

“I noticed several years ago that the more I looked for objective facts and principles to believe in and live by, the angrier I got that other people couldn’t see what was so obviously true.

It seems to me, you are searching for belief rather than education.

” […] next week or next year would look like once the task was successfully completed.”

It is hard enough living in this second, this day, let alone next week or next year…thinking in such ways I have found serves nothing but a daydream.

“His responsibility is not to explain himself or the world, to believe this or that, but to get into the world and engage with it in action.”

Not so — we live in different world than our past, some live within the confines of the Internet, some live within the confines of their own mind. Why do you think the world is that important, that it must be engaged by action. that it must be addressed at all?

I tire with this line of reasoning…

“Reality is truly malleable with the techniques that you describe.”

It has always has been, one does not need technique to understand that, it is a given…you imagine, wither you want to or not!

There is much more evidence to suggest that no one is in control, and that chaos runs afoul…

YURI ANDROPOV  — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet; 4th Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB); General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; inventor and creator of the fifth directive :-

“[…] a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States”