Are you good at seeing the most likely ramifications of actions?
We all think we are. However, given what a lot of us (but nowhere near most of us) have witnessed in the last 21 months, the vast majority of people have shown they are really, really bad at it.
The ability to see where something is going means you can position yourself with confidence to profit/benefit in some way when the world catches up to where you saw it going.
So this is one of my favourite skills, but pain is involved with possessing it. One such pain I have to take for it is to be told I am wrong again and again by people who do not discern well... And that I find funny, so not really an issue to me, but it occasionally gets a little frustrating.
In a future article/email I'll be digging deeper into why not caring what others think is a skill worth mastering...
But in this and the next article, I'm going to talk about the ability to discern well, and how to enhance it.
In March 2020 back at the start of the world's current mass psychosis event, one of the reasons I decided to do the Rational Thinking Webcast was I saw the world was going the wrong way, and I wanted to 'get on record' all the forecasts I was making.
Previously, when a forecast I had made became self-evidently correct, I had gotten fed up of saying, 'See I told you so' and receiving the response, 'No you didn't say that', or 'I said that too' when they hadn't said it at all.
To me being right is a matter of skill, of professional pride if you like... And if I am wrong it provides the opportunity to learn and get better at being right.
But to these people who said they were right when they weren't, they were failing in their ability to think well on multiple levels.
Which is of course their right to do so, but it's also my right to call bulls*t on them, which I did, and do often :-)
So to help me in my ability to discern well, and to be able to say, 'See I told you so' about almost every detail, and with the other benefit of being able to help the few that saw listening to me may add value and insight to their lives...
Well, I worked out that if I jumped on a webcast once a week and recorded my predictions that I would have irrefutable proof of using my ability to discern well...
And this combined with my intuition, and my ability to understand what my subconscious mind was communicating would mean that I would either be proven a fool or be proven to have an unusual ability to see where things were going.
My advantage was, I'd lived with this ability for years, so I knew I was going to be found to have a super forecasting ability, and as my long-suffering friends on the Webcast will attest, they have to put up with from me, multiple 'I told you so's.' I attempt to make them funny, but my fragile little ego enjoys it, so I still do it :-)
Early on, not sure when... One of the first things I came to understand as the world collectively lost their minds, was that for some reason people, in general, did not discern well. Prior to this, I had assumed I had fairly great discernment skills (not bragging, just stating), but that the average person had fairly good ones too... Once again I was wrong!
I remember seeing a well-educated Doctor on Youtube who was recommended to me because of his skill at pulling data apart that was coming in, and that he made it look simple. I watched one video and he was good at this. But then I watched as he instantly drew the wrong conclusion.
I originally put it down to him not being smart. But that was just silly of me to think that, as he clearly was a very smart man, I think he may have even been a professor (not that, that is any gauge of smartness).
I pondered on it for a while and realised he was only using part of his thinking ability and so was failing to think well and thereby drawing poor conclusions.
Since the beginning, his following has grown at least 20 fold into the millions and recently I was watching another of his videos...
The data on it was clear, there was no room for ambiguity, from memory it showed a massive 150% increase in serious heart conditions to the vaxxxed, in fact, he almost said exactly that in his video and proclaimed if true then this was very worrying.
He went through it all, checked it for accuracy, and came right up to the obviously correct conclusion, which any eight year old would've been able to make the mental leap too, but then he failed to connect the last dot on a drawing by numbers image...
He scurried away and ended the video.
I'd seen in the very first video I'd watched of his, that he lacked the ability to discern well. He could collate data, he could add it up and make 2 + 2 = 4... But then in his conclusion, he decided 'fish' was the correct answer.
Now, this guy currently has well over two million subscribers, and after reading the comments, it's clear his subscribers pretty much hang on his every word. So it was a blind leading the blind situation.
Also clearly these people had abdicated their discernment on this subject to this 'expert', which meant they also had an inability to discern well too.
I saw he had this problem within minutes of watching the first video, yet he had millions watching him, and they all couldn't see his failure to discern well.
Clearly, there was a fault in his thinking. What intrigued me was, why was he so bad at connecting the dots?
The answer is he was intellectually biased in his thinking.
In other words...
He already had certain foundations which he knew to be true, and then tried to fit new data on top of his previously constructed, but faulty thinking.
The problem with this is, he wasn't following the data, he was trying to make the data fit to his already chosen version of reality.
Or to put it another way, his thinking parameters existed within a box, and anything that took him outside of the box was obviously not relevant.
The problem with this style of academic thinking is it is corrupt at the outset, and therefore any further construction is built on weak foundations.
This isn't to say all intellectual thinking is wrong, as that would be clearly ludicrous, it is part of our thinking skill, but nowhere near all.
This Doctor and many people right now are failing to understand that there are more elements to making up well-rounded rational thought than just pure intellectualism.
When I used to run factories, I always liked it when someone new came to work for me, especially if they had never worked in the industry before.
Why?
Because they had no baggage in their mind and were instead just free-thinking. I got to ask them all sorts of questions, and solve some long term problems just because they thought differently than those experts who had been working on the production lines for years.
I have never been burdened with thinking that said, well if you aren't a Doctor then how can you comment. As that sort of intellectual weakness just demonstrated to me someone who had almost no ability to discern well.
As you can imagine, with a near-complete failure of discernment ability at the start of the world's current mass psychosis that I didn't make a lot of new friends :-)
Thinking well, and the ability to discern well comes from three elements of thinking.
First, there's the intellectual part.
The subject matter comes up and we consider it...
Crucially, we must consider it without the need for the answer to be anything. If we want things to be one thing or another, then we must be very cautious around the subject matter as we are prone to try and shape the data we find and make it fit what we want.
So it is crucial to not judge too quickly. In fact, avoiding judging at all is the pinnacle of success here.
When someone judges something, they have reached their conclusion and are now just looking for things to back it up. We all like to be right, it is a design flaw in us, and in our education system.
Side note: I LOVE being right, I really, really LOVE it... But what's way, way, way more important to me is 'what's right'. Being right is of far less importance, what's right is everything, being right is a bonus.
Academics often fail as they are way too interested in being right, and often suppress what's right - you've probably noticed this playing out a lot recently :-).
Continuing the intellectual part...
We consider various things we have learnt in relation to the subject matter. We may go and look something up online to help gather data, chat with others on it etc. We do all sorts of little bits on the intellectual thinking bit using skills we have learnt, or been trained to use.
This is where the Doctor's thinking (the one I mentioned previously) ceased.
Second, there is the intuitive part.
Alongside intellectual thinking, when enough data is gathered, at some point a good critical/rational thinker will also allow their intuition to conceive possible conclusions. In other words, outside the box thinking. Could it be xyz, what if this connects to abc etc...
Here we allow our minds to wander, to perceive things, without closing any doors, we allow free-thinking or thinking without borders.
It is important to understand and to remind ourselves often, that we are all conditioned people, we have been and are still being programmed. So understanding that means we have to be careful to not let our programming influence our intuition, as this should just be unencumbered and allowed to float.
The Doctor I mentioned had lost the ability to do this. Whatever you don't use, you lose, and his academic thinking without his intuition meant his thinking is fatally flawed. He needed things to fit within a box, therefore he was unable to add 2 + 2 and make it equal 4.
Third, there is the 'feeling it' part.
This is the bit most people do automatically without realising they're doing it.
They even say they are doing it, and don't notice what they're doing. The Doctor failed (and still fails) to do this part because of his academic training, yet in other areas of his life, he surely applies this part without cognitive recognition.
His academic training shut's one of his greatest thinking/discernment skills off because Academia 'wants' intellectualism to be right, and 'wants' it to be enough. This is why academics can often be the dumbest smart people around the subject they are experts in.
It is why they struggle with following the science, despite telling us to follow the science.
So what is the 'feeling it' part?
Have you ever felt that you looked at something, saw it could be one way, but weren't certain, so you weren't sure, and so you said, 'let me think about it?'
Sure, we all do...
This is a crucial part, as we are connected to our subconscious mind, and all have access to pure intelligence. Which means we have access to the answer, we just don't know our current thinking is right yet, maybe because it feels a bit off, or wrong.
So in walking away, we are effectively without thought waiting for our subconscious mind to confirm or deny our intellectual and intuitive gatherings.
Then at some point later on, somewhere between a split second and several decades, we get the 'feeling' that it is self-evidently wrong, or self-evidently right.
People en masse lack the ability to discern well because they rush to draw intellectual conclusions whilst suppressing their intuition, and not allowing it freedom to roam, and then insist on judging something before they have added enough data, and before allowing their subconscious mind to deliver the answer...
In the 2nd Part on Discernment, I'll be covering a much more accurate way of assessing things that making decisions that it is one way or another.
But the worst bit for us in faulty thinking is...
Our egos LOVE it when we fail to think well, as it gives them something that they know is wrong, but we know is right. Our egos can then use this as a perfect way to keep us stuck!
This is why deciding something is 100% wrong, or 100% right is a very dangerous place to put yourself.
An example of this can be found in the broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer. She is a very clever lady, who is trying to push her thinking outside the box, but her intellectual training is suppressing her intuition, which I can see is screaming at her.
Most people who are stuck in the go along to get along group, do not want to think of bad things regarding this so-called pandemic, so they leave the monster in the closet, they are either scared to look or don't have the energy to look.
Well, Julia doesn't even know there is a closet, so her thinking is struggling to piece together data which doesn't fit, and her intuition is screaming the reality at her, but she is refusing to look, as she doesn't want it to be what her intuition says.
And this is the last piece of the skill around this part of the ability to discern well...
We have to be willing to go where the data takes us. We have to be willing to change our thinking when the facts change.
What we are all experiencing now (whether we know it or not) is people en masse not being willing to change their thinking after the facts have so obviously changed.
Their need to be right is trumping reality for them. This is delusional, or more technically cognitive dissonance, they are desperate to explain things away so reject new information as it conflicts with their existing beliefs.
This is a very dangerous thing to have failed to think well about and will cost a lot of them their lives.
Why do they do it that way?
Simply put, they don't want to go there as it is too scary for them to contemplate, so instead, they choose to ridicule in an effort to make themselves feel better. Their ego gives them a pat on the back, or two pats on the back if they also called the offender a conspiracy theorist.
Their problem is that this is only a temporary fix for them, as reality just stands there. Reality doesn't care if it's called names. Reality is reality, and the wind can blow, but cannot blow it away.
The problem with denying reality is that when it hits you, you may not be in a good position to handle it. You may find precious preparation time has been lost because of needing to be right, rather than coping with 'what's right.'
Clearly, when looked at slowly, it's far better to take small bites out of a big potentially horrible truth along the way.
Plus there's also all the other nasties that come with cognitive dissonance such as, feelings of unease and tension which cause anxiety, stress, fear, and even depression.
It's not nice to face up to reality, but it's not going anywhere and will be coming to friends and relatives near you soon.
When it does, remember, they are your friends and family, they have been hypnotised, one of our key purposes in life is to help those who are not as strong as us.
Yes I know we want to ridicule them, I sure do. But they are human after all and we can easily forgive them for being hypnotised. Plus when they find out, they are going to be way more angry at the perpetrators than we currently are.
We want to waste as little time as possible fighting against those who will eventually realise we have been right all along. We want all that focused energy on hunting down the culprits and making sure this never happens again :-)
As I've said before, we as a society are going to get through this and be much better for it. We unfortunately will have to cope with the effects of what people unconsciously allowed to be injected into them, and a great many will die. But what's waiting for us on the other side of this horror, is the life we thought we had.
As I said, this is a fairly big subject, and I'll see if I can conclude it in Part 2 later.
Have a wonderful Christmas ignoring anything the government tells you to do.
Best wishes,
Andy
P.S. I had a lot of feedback on the last email, amongst other things I've been asked to provide links for people to research, and that's not really what I want to do. However, somewhere I am way more blunt in my language is on Fascistbook, if you want to see some links I've shared, then going back through my profile will give you plenty of things to consider... Link to my Fascistbook profile
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I could not and still do not understand how it is people are not seeing this big lie. It is obvious to me. I worked for an insurance company for a total of 32 years. I refused to get the vaccine and I was denied a religious exemption so I was given an ultimatum, either get the shot by December 8th or you will be put on unpaid leave. If still no shot by the 4th of January you will be fired. Might as well fire me now no shot for me. It felt wrong to get a shot and peace came over me when I allowed that thought to be present to not take the shot. I am thankful for the email and to read it on Christmas Eve morning. Truly a great gift. Thank you
I may be deluding myself but I put myself in the one percent who were certain at the outset that this was no pandemic, at least not by the numbers. After 2020 closed I tried out the 'I told you so" dance as the deaths from all causes in America were almost exactly what the trend of the past decade predicted they would be. They didn't even deviate from the trend line by the size of a modest flu season's variance. Needless to day, the "I told you so" dance made no friends.
Enough ranting. Everything happens for a reason and a purpose and it serves me, even my decision to judge when I could observe.
I appreciate the emails, Andy.