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Internalized vs Externalized Coherence

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Why true wisdom is found in non-contradiction, not in managing the narratives of others. The human drive for psychological survival demands coherence, forcing every individual to choose exactly how they will anchor their identity in reality. We can either build this coherence from the inside-out, aligning our internal knowledge and understanding with objective truth, or from the outside-in, desperately managing the contradictory demands of our environment. This fundamental choice inevitably […] Read more »

The Attrition of Truth: Navigating a Reality Governed by Inverted Force

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The High Cost of Survival in an Age of Lies. Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. While learning to respond to false accusations with absolute silence is a vital step in protecting one’s rational sovereignty, the cessation of a defensive posture does not completely insulate the mind from the hostility of the surrounding world. When […] Read more »

Coherence as Survival: Why the Truth-Seeker Must Face the Fire

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Your shame is not your enemy—it is the sign of a contradiction begging to be reconciled. The Law of Non-Contradiction states that contradictory propositions cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time, meaning an entity cannot be both “A” and “not-A” simultaneously. This principle serves as the bedrock of rational thought, ensuring that reality is consistent and that truth is exclusive of falsehood. Consciousness serves as the precise […] Read more »

The Tragic Irony of CPS: A Case Study in Psychological Harm and Institutional Failure

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NOTE: Certain facts and reasoning within this story, as well as names, were left out to protect the innocence of the children. These are my rational conclusions and judgments based upon our experiences from the past fifteen months or so with slander, libel, and the Dutch family law system. Is the pen mightier than the sword? I guess we’ll find out as we move forward, and continue to use our […] Read more »

Confirmation Bias as a Negative Strategy to Resolve Contradictions Through Pressuring Conformity

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I recently had a run in with a person who was very argumentative with my partner, but it turned out it was due to the contradictions and contrast my partner was providing to him about his own limited worldview, and in an attempt to restore the status quo, he looked up everything he could find that contradicted my partner’s viewpoint and confirmed his own. When one seeks only viewpoints that […] Read more »

The Rewards of Self-Deception, and why it is the Satanic Path

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Self-fallacy, self-fallere (fallere = Latin for “to deceive”), aka self-deception, is a real problem for humanity. Rationalization, which is reasoning from a desired conclusion rather than reasoning from a solid premise, is called in the cognitive sciences emotionally motivated reasoning. Think of rationalization as the inversion of reason, where all inversion is “metaphorically “Satanic”, and it leads to Machiavellian thinking and behaviors, where the ends justify the means. Motivated reasoning […] Read more »

Logic Before Grammar: Putting the Cart Before the Horse

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Have you ever been in a discussion where you felt like you just weren’t on the same page, and that no matter how much information you shared, their mind was already made up?  This is a common problem in today’s world, where the school systems have taught children for generations to think critically with the Classical Trivium, which is the wrong order for utilizing the Trivium method of critical thinking. […] Read more »