Or....accept everything.

Yeah you're in the wrong sub.

That’s how >50% of the posts in this sub work though.

Random 4chan posts lead to conclusions very frequently.

MSM supplies the conclusions for you. Not any better.

I think he's mistaking the random noise that's posted here as what the sub as a whole believes.

Yeah, that's what that quote means.

Good post. Question everything. Don’t accept a claim as truth unless the evidence supporting it has been put under one thousand microscopes.

Maybe Occam's razor as well.

Occam's Razor is fallacious garbage because it's subject solely to perception and groupthink.

Well said.

It’s a very valid concept in science, due to how scientific modeling works: if a more complex model can only produce the same predictions as a more simple one, there is not much sense in continuing to work with the complex one.

As long as the evidence is there, it’s also useful outside of science.

Thank god atleast we all know the earth is flat at this point

Please educate yourself. If the earth wasn't flat, the gravitational forces from both sides of the sphere would cancel out and send people soaring into the nether. If the earth were spherical, any gravitational force would cancel out the equal gravitational force from the exact other side of the planet. See this scientific diagram for proof

That's not how it works. That's not how anything works.

Wow a “scientific proof” including the word “chinaman” and stick figures with absolutely no math.

LOL

You know you can get the proof for yourself do you? Just built one of those balloons and attach a fucking GoPro to it. Look it up on YouTube. There are countless videos of people actually doing it. We are in god damn 2017 and you still think the earth is flat. SMH 🤦‍♂️

I knew some guys who sent a slice of pizza up on a balloon and won a world record for pizza sent highest into space or something. They made it into a music video for their band.

Whoa space pizza! Sounds awesome. But all jokes aside. I have seen videos of kids doing these kind of experiments. I mean what is the flat earth argument here? Those kids are hired by the government and this is all staged? 😄

It was pretty cool!

I agree with you completely. This was just some dudes who probably got really stoned and thought it would be funny but you can clearly see the curvature of the Earth in the video.

Fizzicks? Wut fizzicks?

My house is level from corner to corner and side to side. Impossible if it was built on a sphere; it would wobble. Simple proof that the earth is fat. I mean flat.

Nothing will ever be put under that many microscopes - it is too high a burden of proof and it's exactly what all the anti-conspiracists want to stroke their confirmation biases.

I know that this reply will appear in a rectangular box.

.....

Boom. Premise destroyed.

define box

It's something you put tedious semantics into.

If you find yourself having to question the meaning of "box", especially when it's already in context, then you're hopelessly lost, and may as well give up thinking altogether.

wrong answer little hombre

Sure thing, kiddo.

Good luck in your quest for the meaning of Box.

listen boy

I wise man should no something ...c'mon Socrates let's have this out.

Lost already

Put your faith in God, not men.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."

People would rather play dumb than admit they know things by the vote count.

yeah, fuck science.

i like it

Yes, pursue the truth, consider a thought or idea without fully accepting it, remember there's always more to learn. But most importantly question everything, even me. Best post I'very seen in a while, you deserve a cookie.

I feel compelled to add a reminder to everyone how powerful WANTING something to be true can be. I've definitely noticed myself not evaluate something clearly for personal reasons.

And fearing something is equally powerful.

Preach! Confirmation bias is stronger than facts in people’s minds. I recently read how some people react by reinforcing their beliefs when presented with evidence that contradicts it.

He knows that the wisest man knows nothing, so by knowing that, he's not the wisest man? I think it's a good pointer, but not a great destination; to try to not know anything. Be open to all and don't get mired in dogma, for sure, but also don't let doubt ruin you.

Why should I question everything?

Because then I'd be following OP's advice without questioning it, which is against OP'S advice, as I should question everything.

You can know literally anything this is really fucking stupid. His point was to just fuck with people to try and prove their presumptions were wrong. He was an argumentative prick not an almighty authority. Just because we talk about him now doesn't make his information any more valid, information of which plenty is wrong. Ask yourself: do you know anything? Do you know anything at all? You certainly know something. Your name. Your favourite band. Your girlfriend. You know enough to know you know something. If you want to argue some reductivist demon sending fake signals crap don't message me I'm not interested. God sends us all information and what he sends can be known entirely and experienced.

Right now I'm looking at a metal pole and I can tell you, I know it will fucking hurt if I punch it.

Scrotumtes was gay, he had a lot of stupid ideas and sayings. I upvoted you for the metal pole. Attack cucks at will sir.

Scrotumtes was gay

.... the_donald users, everybody.

Except whether we call it a tree or a frog we know what we're referring to. We can talk with one another to clarify. Your point on pain is irrelevant, some may be numb to it but they still know they are numb and roughly how numb. I'm not saying pain isn't real I'm saying we can literally all know how much of it we feel. Be it a little or a lot. The guy that walks across coals knows he's going to walk across something and he knows he had spent months training so he knows he doesn't have to feel how fucking hot it is.

he knows he doesn't have to feel how fucking hot it is.

Well, shouldn't it be possible than that hitting a metal pole does not always hurt? Could this mean that perception is indeed everything?

How can you claim to know, sure you know the names we accepted as truth and we concluded some things are "real", but there are so many theories promoted by mainstream that now are almost accepted as truths that it is almost impossible to even find the truth anymore.

So many people tried to make the world see it could be better for us all, but why where they "shot down" if they became so big they actually could make a change for the better?

It does not always hurt but I know it will. That's the point I KNOW that because we can know things.

Ah, i see the problem here, you have stopped believing and trust completely in knowing, just like science took over religion.

Can't you see that mainstream science is actually acting and reacting as a religion and are part of the same game?

Every invention or theory, both in religion and science that has come up in this world has been shot down fast, this while every human would benefit from it. Why would this be done, why would anybody keep humanity from reaching their full potential?

Everything in this world is designed to keep humanety seprerated, in fear, anxiety and bad health, science is part of this and covering this up. Many mainstream religions are also designed to keep people seperated or make people helpless or passive while give away their own powers to something else. Why would you give away your natural powers? Why would some not like it if we find out what we actualy are and capabe off?

Mainstrean science and religions are just as big part of the same problem as money, government, media and education are.

Dude it's just a metaphor that if you think you know everything you are shut out to new ideas and learning. He is basically just saying he is in a perpetual state of learning in life (Because He Is Open Minded).

That's what I said. He said it to fuck with people. He was stating he was open to shit and they werent.

How do you know his intentions?

Because he was a troll who would regularly troll citizens at the markets...,..

the earth is flat

The one and only problem with the concept of questioning everything is that it could very easily lead someone down a rabbit hole. I've been practicing this "question everything" ideology for some years now and all I've really gotten out of it was a horrible case of suspicion towards everyone and everything.

Granted, suspicions could very well turn out to be true and therefore warranted but the point I'm trying to make is that if we live and die by this idea to never trust anything and question it all then at some point we're bound to find ourselves alone and distrustful of everything.

It's a weird kind of double edged sword. I feel like at some point we all have to essentially pick a side and take a leap of faith.

Trust the people in your life.

Never trust anything on Facebook or in the media.

Actually I do kind of trust the news where I live. A little not fully, but I believe them when they say a Dollar Tree was robbed.

Trust the people in your life.

Difficult. 3/4 of them are fake, self-serving and entirely full of shit. The few that are real and honest are too busy trying to find their own way in this world to bother with toxic people.

Never trust anything on Facebook or in the media.

Deleted FB back in 2012 because it was obvious then how it was going to turn out.

The media in general I've always been skeptical of. Got rid of television a while back and now I, like many others, have basically crafted my own way of getting the news: Start with whatever google news has to say, or some other generic aggregator, then I check a few different sites from different POV's to get different perspectives (RT, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Breitbart) I like to see what they all have to say. Then I usually conclude it by coming on here to see what the average joe thinks is up.

I believe them when they say a Dollar Tree was robbed.

lol

I agree with you that its okay to be skeptical but not overly skeptical because you lose faith in everything. I started with the question everything ideology, I did end up being overly skeptical but I didn't end up being paranoid about everything, although I almost got to that point. However, I moved on, instead of wasting my time by just questioning everything, I now question things to see if there true, test theories to see if there true, pursue the truth and not be afraid of being wrong, that's how we learn and grow by trial and error. We have free will and the capacity to understand how our universe works, the problem is to find the truth of the universe and ourselves.

However there are those who want to keep the truth to themselves to use it as an advantage to those who do not know, for the simple purpose of dominating those who do not know.

The same way in your case is that knowledge can be used as a double edged sword for good and evil. The choice is always yours.

pick a side and take a leap of faith.

In the end there aren't any sides left, it is just you and all in one. But for now you only need to focus on two things, faith is good, but being honest and life your live out of Love is the only way you will create a better world for yourself and us all.

Honesty will show you the way through this maze, and Love will shine a light so you won't stumble too much.

I literally just used this quote on someone who claimed to understand how souls work and psychedelic drugs aren't needed to access it. It didnt go well. It never goes well.

Why are these comments so dogshit. I've been a lurker on this sub for a while, but the comments on this one just infuriated me. Of course he's not referring to literally knowing 'nothing'. He's saying that even with all our knowledge about what we believe to be true, about the universe..consciousness, god... We can never be 100% certain of it's accuracy. I mean after all, we might be a hologram of another consciousness "THINKING" hitting a metal pole "HURTS". BUT! that doesn't detract from the fact that YOU, within your perception of reality as a whole, felt pain.

You simply promoted ignorance, which is not at all what the intent of the quote is. It's more about even if you know a fuck ton of shit, a wise person is willing to accept that what they know is fallible. Truth and fact are subjective, built on a medium of words to explain them which in themselves are subject to interpretation.

I mean after all, we might be a hologram of another consciousness "THINKING" hitting a metal pole "HURTS". BUT! that doesn't detract from the fact that YOU, within your perception of reality as a whole, felt pain.

"I refute it thus!" ~ Dr Samuel Johnson

I love this quote :)

Wonder if Socrates actually wrote that....

According to Wikipedia, he didn't

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

I disagree. We know things. Things that are true, are true. Socrates believed that acknowledging personal ignorance was wisdom. He also believed the sun was a God riding a chariot across the sky.

No one knows anything? Do you know that?

I place this aphorism up with statements like "that's just your opinion". It shouldn't have to be said. Life continues because of the assumptions we make based on what we think we know. Society continues because of the hope that the aggregation of a million opinions approximates a useful near-enough truth.

Hmm I’ve always thought tha a truly wise man can admit he knows nothing. I didn’t know this was actually a quote.

No hands like soccer teams, and y'all fuck boys like Socrates.

A wild Childish Gambino lyric has appeared

"The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it" - Chuck Missler

"He who answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him" - Proverbs 18:13

You honestly can not claim to be aware of politics or the direction of the world if you don't do your own research or counter-check everything your sources tell you.

Relevant quote from my favorite scientist, Richard Feynman. He said something along the same lines, tho a bit more long winded. I've always found it to be a pretty powerful quote.

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.... possibly. ”

I only know I

Soc was a known pedo

The elites are running circles around you guys because the world is controlled technocratically, ultimately that means computationally, that means mathematically, that means politics is just frosting on the cake, politics is not and can no longer be permitted to be real before the inevitability of elite-led technological change.

This is and will remain a pretend playground for you guys unless you are able to articulate complex levels of analysis that are not only able to transform ways of thinking, but more fundamentally waves of mentally functioning, that is all the masses have left, the power to influence reality through a common positive consciousness. And even that may be too little too late.

And even that may be too little too late.

To me it looks like the whole "analog" controll matrix is falling apart, but i agree with the fact that they are building and rolling out the new "digital" matrix out already.

We all stand for a choise soon, will we follow the old "technology" path that is being pushed, or will we turn to a more natural state of "reality" and leave the "evil" behind?

I know the sun rises and sets. I know I need oxgyen to breathe, and I know I must eat to live. I know oak trees produce acorns. I'd say I know a lot of things. And, I could continue this all day!

I beat you Socrates, in your silly game of logic. lol

I don't believe you.

A combination of two Nietzsche quotes I like reads like this:
There are no facts, only interpretations. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

And I get that there is truth behind things. It just reminds me that the popular opinion isn't always true.

this quote is very dangerous for stupid individuals

Part of me wants to say this post was made as a scheme to make us question our own sanity in a way that is very subtle yet effective and was maybe postedby deep state operatives. However, I agree with the post. I'm torn.

Few people realize this, but Socrates was actually quoting the lyrics from Knowledge by Operation Ivy. "All I know is that I don't know, all I know is that I don't know nothin' " is the actual quote. They were hanging out in Socrates buddies garage smoking when he dropped this line and someone in the group ran with it and here we are today.

I was actually just thinking about this earlier with all the Q posts. So many users so quick to dismiss it. A lot of two to three week old accounts too, which I dismissed as people using alts, but now I'm questioning even that.

This is a larp, you're stupid for believing it.

What if it isn't a larp? When did we as a community become so willing to just shut down something and close our eyes on it, and when did we become so partisan?

Accusations surface against Hillary Clinton: they are 100% correct and only the tip of the iceberg! You're a shill if you think otherwise! To the gallows!

Junior Trump's twitter has clear evidence that Wikileaks was working with the Trump campaign to create a false impression of impartiality despite being slanted: Heyyyy, let's not jump into conclusions so fast. Here's a quote by a smart Greek philosopher. Just because things seem true doesn't make it so. Hey, have you seen the latest Hannity? I'm having a hard time deciding between the Hannity Uranium One flowchart and the Jeff Sessions hearing poster.

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" ~former CIA Director. Follow the white rabbit.

That's not actually the exact quote it is "The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing"

Nullius In Verba.

i prefer the So Crates version from the Wyld Stallyns documentary.

"The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing."

Begin and end with one simple question; ¿ Qui Bono?

Who Benefits?

Pro 9:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

He wasn't wise.

Trump knows a lot though.

Socrates sorta sounds like a neck beard that achieved Nirvana

If I could magically gold upvote something once a year, it would be this post.

The map is not the territory.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

socrates knew that he knows alot. this statement of him knowing nothing was a diss to his peers . " look at how smart i am yet i know nothing. you guys know even less than me so what does that make you'

Lost already

I mean after all, we might be a hologram of another consciousness "THINKING" hitting a metal pole "HURTS". BUT! that doesn't detract from the fact that YOU, within your perception of reality as a whole, felt pain.

"I refute it thus!" ~ Dr Samuel Johnson

It does not always hurt but I know it will. That's the point I KNOW that because we can know things.