Cognitive Dissonance is the psychological tension that occurs when holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously such as loving cows, but also loving hamburgers. The discomfort experienced when holding two incompatible cognitions isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and in fact can act as a catalyst prompting positive changes. It becomes problematic, however, when people experiencing cognitive dissonance instead display denial, angst, anger, incredulity, or exasperation. Those suffering from crippling cognitive dissonance will often blame other people or outside factors, avoid certain subjects, and rationalize poor decisions. The psychological tension of cognitive dissonance can be relieved though, once the seemingly contradictory cognitions find a way to sensibly co-exist. If you love cows but also love hamburgers, for example, you might try cutting down your consumption, or switch to some of the many vegan hamburger options. Aristotle said, “Nothing is more challenging than the ability to study, debate, and think through a concept without immediately accepting or rejecting it. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it,” and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that, “The truest sign of intelligence is the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas simultaneously.” In other words, the ability to ponder opposite ideas without experiencing crippling cognitive dissonance, is the mark of a balanced mind. The capacity to consider contradictory cognitions without immediately accepting or rejecting one of them, is one of the surest signs of intelligence. Every issue has at least two sides, often three or more, and if you have only researched or thought about one side of a subject without ever giving due diligence to differing perspectives, that is nothing but willful ignorance. Those who are able to refrain from judgement long enough to genuinely research and weigh the evidence from all sides of a given issue are the most likely to arrive at truth. For a truly insightful, concrete case-study in cognitive dissonance, I recommend delving deep into the subject of cosmology. Consider this: We have been taught that we live on a giant sphere floating in space, tilting on its vertical axis, wobbling through a precession, and spinning through the seasons. This spinning ball Earth reaches speeds of over 1,000 miles per hour at the equator and causes an optical illusion of the Sun, Moon and stars revolving over and around us. The spinning ball Earth also revolves 67,000 miles per hour around the Sun, while the whole solar system spirals 500,000 miles per hour through the Milky Way, and the entire Milky Way galaxy shoots off millions of more miles per hour from a creationary explosion 14.7 billion years ago. These astronomical assumptions are taught as gospel truths while differing perspectives are not only not considered, they are condemned. And as Einstein said, “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” So, let’s attempt an investigation without condemnation, denial or ridicule, and try to examine a different perspective – your own common sense every day experience of the world... Get Connected with and Help Support Eric: Website: http://www.EricDubay.com Books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ericdubay Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EricDubay Blog: http://www.AtlanteanConspiracy.com Forum: http://www.IFERS.123.st Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/edfes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericdubaz/ X: https://twitter.com/EricDubay Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/eric_dubay SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eric-dubay/ Mewe: https://mewe.com/i/ericdubay Minds: https://www.minds.com/EricDubay Gab: https://gab.ai/Eric-Dubay Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ericdubay YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/flateartheric Odysee: https://odysee.com/@EricDubay:c BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/TCgwKoAf3Y9z/ Real Truthseekers: https://real-truth-seekers.com/@ericdubay Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/EricDubay Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1286253 Dollar Vigilante: https://dollarvigilante.tv/c/eric.dubay/videos Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Eric+Dubay Telegram: t.me/flatearthericdubay Email: ericdubaynewsletter@protonmail.com

All children naturally assume and believe we live on a level stationary Earth with the Sun, Moon and stars revolving over and around us because that is what we actually experience every day of our lives. No children before heliocentric indoctrination would ever assume or believe they lived on a tilting, wobbling, spinning oblate spheroid hurdling incredible speeds through infinite vacuum space, because none of that is present in our lived experience. Only after thorough indoctrination through mainstream media and government education do children slowly begin to abandon their actual natural every day lived experience of the world, and adopt the new imaginative model espoused by their teachers and televisions. I remember the moment we began studying the solar system in elementary school and were taught that Earth was a giant blue ball floating in space spinning circles around the Sun. The entire concept sounded ridiculous to me as I sat clearly still and motionless in my chair while being told the ground beneath me was actually tilting, wobbling, rotating and revolving many thousands of miles per hour in various directions. I could see the flat horizon out the window, at the beach, and from mountain tops clearly never curving downwards in the slightest, yet I was being told the Earth was a ball and that if I dug a hole straight down far enough I would pop out in China and find more sky below me! When the teacher then insisted that everyone in Australia was actually living their lives upside-down relative to people on the Northern Hemisphere, I remember raising my hand confused and asking, "why don't people in the Southern Hemisphere fall off of the ball?" to which my teacher readily replied with the heliocentric model's one word magical answer for all critical questions: gravity - An invisible force strong enough to hold the world's oceans, buildings and people stuck to a rapidly spinning ball, while simultaneously weak enough to allow birds, bugs, smoke, steam, and helium balloons to completely evade its grasp... For links to all the PDFs and Audiobooks mentioned, click here: https://ifers.123.st/t365-how-i-learned-about-flat-earth#18192 Get Connected with me! Website: http://www.EricDubay.com Blog: http://www.AtlanteanConspiracy.com Forum: http://www.IFERS.123.st Books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ericdubay Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/groups/edfes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericdubaz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericdubay SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eric-dubay/ Mewe: https://mewe.com/i/ericdubay Minds: https://www.minds.com/EricDubay Gab: https://gab.ai/Eric-Dubay Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ericdubay YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/flateartheric Odysee: https://odysee.com/@EricDubay:c BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/TCgwKoAf3Y9z/ BrandNewTube: https://brandnewtube.com/@EricDubay Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/EricDubay TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealericdubay Telegram: t.me/flatearthericdubay Email: ericdubaynewsletter@protonmail.com

Once you have done your due diligence in deeply researching both heliocentric and geocentric cosmologies, the idea that Earth is a globe, tilting, wobbling, and spinning with magical bendy oceans and upside-down people in Australia, soon becomes the most absurd and far-fetched concept; you start to wonder how you could have ever believed it in the first place. The main reasons are because everyone else around you unquestioningly believed it, and it was originally introduced to you around the same time you were being introduced to Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Cartoons and imagination were your reality at the time, and imaginative cartoons like these Earth globes capture and captivate children’s minds. As if under a stupefying spell, many adult-children steeped in confirmation bias, unwilling or unable to exercise true skepticism, remain forever duped by NASA’s Freemasonic charade... Get Connected with and Help Support Eric: Website: http://www.EricDubay.com Books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ericdubay Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EricDubay Blog: http://www.AtlanteanConspiracy.com Forum: http://www.IFERS.123.st Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/edfes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericdubaz/ Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/eric_dubay SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eric-dubay/ Mewe: https://mewe.com/i/ericdubay Minds: https://www.minds.com/EricDubay Gab: https://gab.ai/Eric-Dubay Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ericdubay YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/flateartheric Odysee: https://odysee.com/@EricDubay:c BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/TCgwKoAf3Y9z/ Real Truthseekers: https://real-truth-seekers.com/@ericdubay Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/EricDubay Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1286253 Dollar Vigilante: https://dollarvigilante.tv/c/eric.dubay/videos Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Eric+Dubay Telegram: t.me/flatearthericdubay Email: ericdubaynewsletter@protonmail.com

NASA and modern astronomy say the Earth is a giant globe spinning 1,000 mph around its central axis, traveling 67,000 mph circles around the Sun, spiraling 500,000 mph around the Milky Way, while the entire galaxy rockets a ridiculous 670,000,000 mph through the Universe, with all of these motions originating from an alleged “Big Bang” cosmogenic explosion 14 billion years ago. That’s a grand total of 670,568,000 mph in several different directions we’re all supposedly speeding along at simultaneously. No one has ever seen, felt, heard, measured or proven such motion, yet the vast majority of people unquestioningly accept that the clearly motionless Earth beneath their feet is actually moving over six hundred million miles per hour! http://www.EricDubay.com http://www.AtlanteanConspiracy.com http://www.IFERS.123.st