RE: Back From The Brink. This Ship Will Never Sink!

I just question all things.

The way I see it, the best and brightest question everything.

What about it would compel a wicked antagonist .. what would cause them to convert

Nothing to speak of, aside from consequences of course. I think the "convert" part is a trap we all know, like controlled resistance if you will. I call this the "dogma" or "propaganda" scenarios I picked up from TV or the commercial churches that twist, confuse. There is propaganda in law and church too and it is no less sophisticated than the propaganda to promote lies and hide the truth.

I had to separate this out in my own head so I could see what people are talking about if or when they express faith based concepts. I realized it is just a definition and some have a broad definition for it and others a more narrow. A word without a definition is nothing but confusion. I equate it to real science (not seen in TV or corporate big-pharma) where one can be more effective with a "theory" and use a hypothesis and see if it plays out and, if not, adjust the theory and experiments. I use rational scientific process but I have a lot of fun and success entertaining and basing it all on theories. Not unlike the real Tesla (I assume) where he seemed to see and know things that lead him to discover amazing inventions. We may never know the how but we can see the result. I get use to tagging my foundational beliefs as a theory so it is easy to change and adjust myself as I see more. But I had blocks and triggers I had to question as well so I could even do this. The kicker is, the more I learn the more I see there is a design or architecture at play. Nothing new under the sun they say. And I don't think about it as converting anyone. They have lessons to learn. II think of t as free will; the yen and the yang; creation and destruction. Sometimes you have to tare things down to build something new so I don't even see it as all bad or wrong. There are just wrongs that need to be dealt with. It is as if this simulation had millions of years to find ways to program, test, or otherwise challenge us. I agree, keep questioning everything even the stuff you don't know to question (the search for those fits my definition of faith or theory).