Totally understandable

Just noticed a skeptic asking if “any non-governmental entity has actually photographed the alleged sunspots.”

In today’s utterly crazy tyranny, total skepticism is totally understandable. When rulers are torturing and strangling and imprisoning us and bombing countries down to bedrock, all justified by blazingly fake “science” and fake “threats”, total disbelief is a natural and healthy response.

It’s also exactly what the tyrants want us to do. They infiltrate movements with deliberate extremists, who turn the understandable human opposition into a prosecutable crime or an equally wrong fantasy. Machiavelli wrote the book, and agencies like FBI have been following it ever since.

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The important dividing line is: Can you observe this phenomenon by yourself?

Do viruses exist? Observably yes. Was 2020 an epidemic? Observably NO. With viral diseases like measles and polio and chickenpox, you CAN observe for yourself, and BEFORE THE VACCINES WERE DEVELOPED, almost everyone had either experienced the disease or known others who were damaged by the disease. The vaccines are the controlled experiment. You don’t need to know what a virus looks like under an electron microscope. Vaccines were developed 500 years ago and scientifically formalized 200 years ago, long before the virus itself was identified or named or seen. This class of disease CAN be prevented by vaccines, which don’t simply improve your health in general. The action of each vaccine is specific to one disease.

In the case of sunspots, amateur non-governmental astronomers have been seeing and projecting and drawing and photographing sunspots for at least 1200 years.

You can observe sunspots by yourself, though not as directly as the viral diseases. Buy a simple telescope or binoculars and project the image onto a screen.

With the curvature of the earth, you can easily see the curvature on a lake or an open prairie. People have recognized the sphere forever, not just hundreds of years. Flat-earthers are blatant provocateurs.

The moon landing doesn’t fit this rule. We can’t drive to the moon to see if the flags and debris are still there, and we can’t see the surface closely enough with telescopes we can buy. In this case the overskeptics, though undoubtedly provocateurs, could be right. No way to know for sure. [Come to think of it, if we could drive to the moon, the question would be absurd, like asking if humans ever settled Earth.]

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Sidenote: I’m sure there’s a way to use an iPhone to “see” a sunspot, but that’s counterproductive. Most of the images of the aurora were also “seen” through an iPhone, which enhances the image far beyond what a film camera can do.

The indirectness of modern perception, first through TV then iPhones, makes it easy for rulers to control our perception, and also makes it easy for provocateurs (working for rulers) to control it the opposite way. When you “see” through an iPhone, NSA is always on the party line, monitoring and modifying what you “see”.

I recommended a simple telescope because OBSERVING FOR YOURSELF means cutting out the in-betweens. Ideally avoid all lenses, following the old Islamic model of the alidade. If you have to use a lens or amplifier, keep it simple and physical and analog, NOT web-connected. Stay low on the food chain.