Humble Opinions & Facts • What Is Need Not Grovel (HC005)
⁘ Created: 2025-12-30 ⁘ Updated: 2026-01-02
Matters of personal taste. Estimates from insufficient data. These are opinions. Direct experience. Undeniable patterns. Laws of nature. These are not opinions. They are facts of life. Rooted in reality. Need to deal with them.
Why should I preface everything with "In my humble opinion"? Real experience need not grovel. We don't need to buffer and sugarcoat everything as relative to make it more palatable. It is what it is. Do you have a problem with "what is"?
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You do not sound humble at all. Rather self-confident. Even intimidating. Please be advised that you should always begin your statements with "in my humble opinion" and conclude with "yours sincerely, ever-liminal in self- deprecating uncertainty". Such is the saintly demeanor and the manners of the civilized man.
Well, I'm certainly not here to craft appearances or be the most palatable man in the world. I simply call it as I see it. Then, into matters of humility and opinions.
First, what are opinions? They are tentative conclusions I've crafted in my head, taking a stance on matters where certainty is not easily available. But not all things are a mere matter of opinions. The world is not an absolute field of relative subjectivity.
Suppose I tell you, keep your wits about, there's a massive pothole just down the road, downhill over there. Don't drive into it. Oh, but that's just your opinion. Why must you meddle in my ways? try to control the way I live my life? Well, you know, there is that massive hole in the road. I just drove around it, saw someone take a tumble there. So, you know, that's there.
So there are matters of taste, subjective preference. They are stated as such. Then there are takes on matters where sufficient data and experience are lacking for a full picture to be formed. These are all in the realm of opinions and ship with their "maybes" and "perhapses" and "I feel likes". So that's the wonderful world of opinions.
And then we have the world of facts. In facts, we count direct personal experience and repeated observation of the same. Then there are the forecasts of inevitable patterns, the laws of nature that we cannot escape from.
So we have opinions from personal preference and from limited exposure. Then we have actualities rooted in direct experience and inescapable patterns. It is so in the physical world, and it is also so in the mental world, in the realms of awareness.
Suppose, driven by obsession and fixation, your awareness races into a tunnel. You'll be blind to the rest of the world and to the rest of yourself. Not an opinion — happens all the time. Suppose you lock yourself into a particular identity and environment. This is how it must be, forever and ever. Battling with inevitable change, there is suffering. Not an opinion — happens all the time.
Matters of the physical realm that I have seen, where the patterns are undeniable — these are not opinions. And matters of the mental world, the realm of consciousness, that I have seen, where the patterns are inescapable — also not opinions. And none of those need I preface with "in my humble opinion". It is what it is, okay? Deal with it.
And now of things that I hold self-evident. Bring your case forth. That's where humility comes in. I yield before superior insight. I'm here for "what is". By all means, let's get it sorted. Yours truly, from beyond the quantum field where the minds churn like porridge, where nothing means anything at all. I'm not diving into all of that.