What if everything you know is wrong?

^This^

i sooo want to respond to this thread because it's such a good question, and then i look at who posted it...

oh well, it's still a good question. so comedian, what prompted the question?

My Phd in Philosophy.

then one would be mighty

Then that is the point in which you realize that you truly "know" nothing. It's part of maturing. When I was little I thought my Dad knew everything. As a rebellious teen, I thought my Dad knew nothing. As a young adult, I began to give him a little more credit, and as a Father now myself, I realize that my Dad was brilliant and that I truly knew nothing in my arrogant youth. Now, I try to live up to what my father was to me for my children, and part of that is teaching them that it is okay to say "I don't know", because to them I may appear to know everything, at some point I will have succeeded when they mature and realize that I know nothing.


Or something like that

^ Wise ^

Then you would have knowledge of the matrix and realize that it does indeed exist.

And if you do you know speaking about it gets you locked up in the looney bin...

Are you saying you know?

See the question mark on the initial post?

Does that indicate an interrogative?

Basically you are very correct.

Our societies are based on fear, hate and condemnation.

We are determined to be like God and know the difference between good and evil.

We war warned. But we thought it was just a test.

It's not a test. It's real.

When you figure out exactly what's wrong you will get your prize.

Yes. Everything is backwards. But we can change that overnight.

If we want to.

Well, I'll say that we can change what's wrong the same way we can defeat gravity: We have to rigorously analyse and apply the unforgiving laws of physics and nature. We can't just all agree that gravity should be 0.5g at sea level, and expect to jump twice as high after we reach consensus.

Certian forces must be overcome, conquered, and made to exist in the margins of error.

There are hard, terrible things in the way of humanity, and they only yield to harsher, more terrible things.

almost everything!

When knowledge and belief are in conflict, the ability to think and learn shuts down - this is one way to avoid pain when reality is frightening. Facing reality, however, is the only way to deal with pain and put it behind. It's very true that the more you know the more you realize the vastness of your ignorance. Knowledge can be used to stay stupid, as in using one small bit to deny a larger reality, or to support a belief that is personally comfy but dead wrong in the larger picture. No number of facts can make up for a lack of gratitude and respect for ourselves and our reality.