Alternative Epistemologies

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-alternative epistemologies
+I may have first became interested in alternative epistemologies, 
+while reading about Terrence Mckenna in my early years of college. 
+
+Later this blossomed into a more general interest in alternative epistemologies, 
+as I had more fist-hand experiences of things which were deemed "impossible" or "misguided" 
+by the mainstream consensus knowledge-making systems, but which seemed undeniable in my own experience. 
+
+From Godels Incompleteness Theorems, to the philosophy of science, 
+it seems even within the academic world of rationalism, 
+the way things work cannot be as singularly and precisely pinned down, 
+as some might have hoped. 
+
+This wiki could have alternatively been called "Conspiracy Theory Research", 
+and I find conspiracy theories to be fertile ground 
+(and not really the bogey man the liberal media portrays it as, 
+which is ironically its own form of conspiracy theory)
+but to me "conspiracy" is in a way just the emotionally-dark genre
+of the much larger field of all knowlede-making systems 
+which don't start with the assumption that what most people believe is true. 
+
+![et](assetts/et.png)
+
+I would like to make the clause that I don't agree 100% with everything that is listed within this wiki, 
+which would also be impossible, because there are loads of contradictory views, 
+but I also feel no need to separate myself from the more "out there" opinions either 
+— in my eyes the world is much stranger and more beautiful than the new york times would have you believe.
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+Flat-earth theories are really interesting to me. 
+Whatever shape earth you walk on, it feels like a deep invitation to look through your own eyes again.
+
+[Flat Earth vs Globe Earth](posts/flat-earth)
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+<br/><br/>
+
+*Alternative Medicine*
+
+This one is more meaningful to me, because I have more personal experience of how "alternative" medicine has cured
+ailments in myself and my friends, and how many people I know are suffering from chronic illness and injury, 
+some of who I imagine might also be like me, whose conditions might not be inherent but actually caused by the illness-causing conditions of modern society.
+Here is a tweet from 2017 back when I was still questioning if it was even possible to find the healing I was looking for,
+and before I had first-hand experience. Here is a link to a detailed log I've recorded since 2017 keeping track of all the 
+times I experienced symptoms of illness. 
+
+Many people would consider me a covid-truther or conspiracy theorist,
+&mdash; I've even had one friend say to me, "I know you are skeptical of the medical industry, but you're not like *them*". 
+To me this feels like an unimportant distinction &mdash; sometimes I think the more outlandish conspiracy theories 
+are just folk-lore communicating through another dialect. 
+
+Here is what I personally feel to be the best piece of writing I've written about western medicine, vaccination, misinformation and non-holistic public health: <br/><br/>
+[Misinformation](/posts/misinformation)
+
+<br/><br/>
+
+This are.na channel is where I'm collecting any and all resources related to alernative epistemologies. <br/><br/>
+[no liberation without curiosity towards many epistemologies](https://www.are.na/new-name/no-liberation-without-curiosity-towards-many-epistemologies)
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+<br/><br/>
+
+And here are some more resources I am curious about: <br/><br/>
+- [9/11 FAQ by Ran Prieur](https://www.ranprieur.com/essays/911FAQ.html)
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+path: "/posts/alternative-epistemologies-extra"
+date: "2022-07-19T23:19:51.246Z"
+title: "Extra (ae)"
+type: "wiki"
+level: "2"
+style: "prose"
+image: ""
+description: ""
+note: "Max Fowler"
+---
+
+
+I've included these links on an additional page, because I don't find them particularly interesting, 
+and without having looked into them, they may even be hateful, 
+but I am keeping them here as a way of saving them, as there was something about it interesting to me. 
+
+- [https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/](https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/)
+- [the no virus challenge](https://viroliegy.com/2022/07/15/the-no-virus-challenge/)

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-scuttlebutt
+scuttlebutt has been drawn my attention for a long time now 
 
-peachcloud 
+I first joined after seeing a presentation by @zelf at radical networks in berlin in 2018, 
+here is [the introductory post I made then](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25p%2FUkTc1Q2ZpH3mVw%2BPxbfOiBD8gGjj4O9MCsVQ0Nf%2F8%3D.sha256)
+
+strange that so much has happened since then, 
+but in many ways my interests are also mostly the same 
+
+since then I've met dozens of people from scuttlebutt, 
+including [@lando](ssb://@cnLKkzXHWFfPa2c4N74pMKCpw6Gmp1vnydEF4qlZsTE=.ed25519) who I started [kiezpilz](http://kiezpilz.de) with, 
+as well as [@glyph](http://mycelial.technology) who I've worked on peachcloud with and learned a lot of mycology from 
+
+at times it feels like a global network of activists to me, 
+much of which consists of long periods of durational devotional work typing at home, 
+as well as experiments in alternative ways of living, 
+with occasional moments of meeting up in person 
+
+it also sometimes feels  like a religious community to me, in a nice way 
+
+I don't feel like trying to totally describe what it is, 
+or be completely utopian or pessimistic about it
+
+I imagine this is another feeling I share in common with members of other religious communities 
+
+my participation in the community has consisted of: 
+- hosting various butts on my couch when they were travelling through berlin 
+- attending [solpunk](posts/solpunk) in 2021 
+- working on peachcloud with @glyph for two years 
+- posting about various things on scuttlebutt and talking with other butts  
+- creating 
 
-go-sbot