Trump is not the problem, the problem is all those people who vote for him.
Duarte in the Philippines, Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Orbán in Hungary, just to mention a few other obnoxious heads of state, they are also elected. Millions of Germans adored Hitler.
Ordinary people create serious problems in the world.
3000 years ago people believed that the earth is flat. 400 years ago were people afraid of witches, ghosts, and trolls. 70 years ago were Germans convinced that they belonged to a superior race...
Today people still believe that fantasies are real, it's just new fantasies, other fantasies. We are still deluded idiots. The mainstream media's as well as the internet is flooded with hogwash. We are drowning in crap.
How about you? Are you also deeply convinced about things that will be considered idiocy 50 years from now? Or maybe next week? What do you think?
Is mathematics invented or discovered?
Is meaning invented or discovered?
Is God invented or discovered?
Is the true self invented or discovered?
Are the spiritual entities, angels, and demigods invented or discovered?
Are electrons and quarks invented or discovered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Q6SWcTA9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvS2K06dg4
I love myself, says the narcissist. He looks at himself in the mirror and affirms: I love myself. I love myself.
Self-help books and internet gurus teach the importance of loving oneself. You must not question yourself, you must not criticize yourself. No matter what you have done, you must love yourself. You must believe in yourself. You must trust yourself. You must have self-confidence and self-esteem. You must love yourself.
If you write something in the sand, on a beach, it says something there only if someone reads what you have written. It's just sand if no one reads it. Natural scientists examine the sand with their hyper-advanced instruments, they can explain what it consists of, how it originated, and what its properties are. They don't care about what you have written. Only the sand is worth studying for them. They have a materialistic worldview.
Humanists don't care much about the sand. They find sand uninteresting. It's just sand. They are more interested in what someone has written there and why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhrHf-SnVEw
A Near-Death-Experience is a Near-Death-Experience. It is not an experience of death. Resuscitation is not the same as resurrection. Strange phenomena can occur under extreme stress. You can get mystical insights. You don't get mystical insights in common everyday life. You don't get mystical insights by reading books or listening to spiritual teachers.
Are ghosts, spirits and angels also made up of atoms and molecules, or, do they consist of some other form of matter? What do you think? Are they immaterial? Are they made of imagination or illusions?
What is an illusion made of? Electromagnetic waves in brain tissue? Fiering neurons?
What is the difference between an illusion and a perception, from a neurological point of view?
Your eyes can detect photons, light, but what is a photon, really? Is it a particle or a wave?
At this moment you are possessed by a spirit. Is it a decent spirit, a horny spirit, or an evil spirit? Is it a resentful spirit, a jealous spirit, a sad spirit, a bored spirit, or a cheerful spirit? Where does this spirit come from? How long has it been with you, or in you? Is it a frequent visitor?
Who, or what, are you, that is possessed by this particular spirit? Are you, as well as your memories, illusions, imaginations, and perceptions made of brain activity?
Is your brain a kind of receiver or is it producing consciousness?
What will happen to you when you die and your brain is decomposing? Will you end up somewhere else? What do you think? Or, will consciousness continue in other brains? Just because your radio is broken it doesn't mean that all radio transmissions stop.
What will the world look like if all life forms die out in an idiotic nuclear war? Will the broadcasting companies also disappear? Will the whole universe become just a huge empty nothingness with a few electrons and quarks bumbling around here and there?
