If you were playing a game of Spades, and you had in your hand all the cards you needed to win the hand, would you get mad at the other players for having losing hands?
If you had all the facts you needed to show logically, step by step, why your opinion was correct, would you get mad at the people you were talking to for needing to be taught?
If winning was very important to you, but you had a losing hand when you were playing Spades, you might get mad at that other player who was winning the hand.
If holding onto a particular belief was important to you, but you couldn't logically explain why your position was right and the other person's was wrong, and your subconscious calculated that it didn't have the answers for defending your cherished belief, your subconscious might send you impulses of anger at the other person for threatening your beliefs. You might insult the other person, or your subconscious might direct you to divert the conversation down a different channel until you found one you could successfully defend, and your mind would trick you into thinking you'd prevailed on the first point as well. You would not be consciously aware of why that was happening. That's cognitive dissonance.
If you were playing cards, and you had the winning hand, and one of the other people cheated, you might get mad, or you could just stop playing with those people for the day, and try again another day with them or with a different group.
If you were making a logical argument step by step, and the other person started insulting you, or trying to divert the conversation away from your point, you could get mad, or you could rest assured at knowing that your argument had won. You wouldn't have the satisfaction of persuading the other person, but sometimes that's as far as you can go in one day. Let it rest there, and try again another day or with another person.
Dr. Drew interviewed Scott Adams recently, and Scott Adams mentioned the absurdity that Republicans went to overthrow the government on Jan 6, but they neglected to bring their guns. On the first or second anniversary of the event, that alleged oversight made the narrative appear absurd to me, so I made a "video" that was supposed to be audio from January 6, captured on a video camera from which the lens cap had not been removed. I'm posting it again just because.
While I was waiting on hold to talk with a human at the IRS, I decided to put some food out for the dogs. I set the full bag of dog food on a chair, and walked away to get the bowls. When I turned around I saw the bag slowly tipping over, spilling much of its contents onto the floor. Fortunately I had help cleaning it up.
The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.
After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.
Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.
I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.
Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.
If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...
I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.
This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.
https://alternativephysics.locals.com/
I also posted it on my personal website:
