From a Prisoner of Belief Systems to Philosophy and the Scientific Method

“… the population suffers from a fear of change, and challenging one’s belief system usually ends in insult and apprehension, for, being wrong is erroneously associated with failure — when, in fact, being proven wrong should celebrated, as it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness…” — Peter Joseph

I realise that a great deal of the writing I’m yet to post here concern a lot of things that I probably shouldn’t cover without some personal context; without at least a brief introduction to how I’ve arrived where I have and why I’m even interested in some of these things in the first place.

Instantly, I’m taken right back to a vague, fragmented memory going way back to Year 3 in primary school, so I was probably about 8 or so. A teacher was telling us about “The World”, what’s expected of us, how we’ll eventually go off to work and earn money. I can’t remember exactly what she was talking about, but I remember my reaction being one of confusion. There was something about the things she said that didn’t make sense. They struck me as somehow wrong, although I was so young that I had no framework with which to interpret or express this feeling.

Incidents like this would happen at scattered intervals over the years, and usually only when…