Seeing Things As They Truly Are

SEE HERE Perhaps the greatest gift anyone can received is the ability to see things as they truly are. An education in the hard sciences tends to convey that gift. I'll always be thankful to my father for insisting that I get a scientific education. He favored Civil Engineering or any of the sciences that form the foundation of our understanding.

 I chose Physics because it was the most fundamental. Looking for truth means you have to cut away the fog of deception that surrounds most things and look for the fundamentals. I tend to list these as 1) Data, 2) Principles, and 3) Critical Experiments or Demonstrations. This kind of thinking can apply to anything. One aspect is the understanding that the fundamental delusion is that if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten somehow doesn't apply if you truly believe in [fill in the blank ... liberalism, progressivism, Communism, sustainability, green energy, or some of the delusions on the right]

 So if you like what you've had for the last four years just go ahead and vote for Obama. But if you think like the Las Vegas Review Journal that "To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous." then you should vote for Mitt Romney.