Yeah, you have faith in the official narrative like some have faith in the bible. You're an acolyte of officialdom, with a few minor deviations cause you're also an edgy guitarist.
You gotta make up your mind man. You tell me I blindly follow the narrative, but when you ask me why you tell me my reasons are too anecdotal because they are based on personal experience. Everything you say is an absolute contradiction. It’s fucking stupid.
I don't believe that you think the vaccine works or is safe because you didn't get covid or didn't get hurt. I think you use that to justify your pre-existing belief in what polite society told you to believe.
Polite society is a euphemism for the esteemed of our world, it has nothing to do with actually being polite or civilized either for that matter. Polite society is often barbaric and uncivilized, but always maintains a veneer of self-righteousness and respectability. As for your heterodox deviations, a lot of people hold those views. Do you actually believe anything that is outside of the so-called 3x5 card of allowable opinion? And btw I don't distrust "it" on principle, but according to evidence and reason.
I was explaining what polite society meant and then reiterated the question. I think you get the gist of what I'm asking, and I think the answer is that you probably don't believe anything that wouldn't really get anyone to raise their eyebrows, let alone consider you to be an independent thinker.
I consider free thinking to include openness to ideas and willingness to engage personally with evidence, using your own brain and analytical skills to assess it, or to assess the analysis of others. I don't think free thinking is the same as innovative thinking, but sure there is probably some overlap. Yeah, I do believe strongly in questioning everything, but that doesn't require not believing anything — although I do think the majority of what people think they know is probably not true. I don't know whether I am an innovative thinker or not, but I don't share everything I think or come up with on RT ya know. I will admit that I don't have many answers, unlike some of you all.
Yes like I said, a bastardized version of it.
You think that’s what you do?
I'm not asking for your dumbshit assessment, I'm asking how my general description differs in kind from the article.
The article sounds more like the definition I gave. It even explicitly lists scientists lol
Those scientists, philosophers and visionaries went against the orthodoxy. They were different than the people you revere.
