Credence by tom mcmurray

Searching for Credenc The belief in or accepting something as true.

8/3/2021a

Searching for truths in a post truth world

Run thru the Jungle and don’t look back…

Intro: De ne my version of truth inspired by CCF’s

PLot:

Introduction

I have been lucky enough to be born before TV, missed the Vietnam draft by one year and retire before the world of social media took over the cognitive minds of the world. I as they say did it the hard way leaving a small southern mill town to explore and nd my own truths about the world and myself. It was not easy but there was no way to die a slow death in my home town and miss the chance to see the world and be challenged intellectually and emotionally by di erent cultures on di erent continents.

I sought my own challenges and freedoms thru grad school, my rst few jobs, startups, being a partner in a rm to starting my own nonpro t to save the world - well that is sorta what I thought philanthropy was about. More on that later. The biggest challenges were on the surface the jobs I had - scientist, coder, VC, nonpro t then explorer. All these jobs had a lot of exploring. I wanted to know the truth about myself and my capabilities due to the childhood trauma I faced and abuse by my mother. Maybe that is too strong a word. You be the judge.

The word I have found to best represent my journey in like is the word Credence. The dictionary de nition of credence is: “belief in or acceptance of something as true. Now I can drop down and we can dig deeper and explore the epistemology of Credence. So we can try here to answer questions like:

What do we know?

What does it mean to say that we know something?

What makes justi ed beliefs justi ed? And

How do we know what we know.

These are big questions that I can not and care not to answer. And in the same spirit from today I don’t place any value in my life for Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” or the media’s depiction of things as “post truths”. No this is solely about my truths and my life’s journey to discover my credences that make my life special.

Quote - picture - pause…

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” — William Faulkne But let’s explore credence a bit more to provide a context for my life. Some synonyms would be: belief, faith, trust, credit, con dence. And some antonyms would we disbelief, distrust, denial. OK the life choices one makes to nd credence seem clearly now - hopefully to you not just me.

Break - 4 types of truths with photos and maybe quotes

Cover Quote

If you look for truth, you may nd comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis https://commoncog.com/blog/four-theories-of-truth/ The four theories are as follows • The correspondence theory of truth — that whatever corresponds to observable reality is true • The coherence theory of truth — that claims are true if they follow logically and coherently from a set of axioms (or intermediate propositions) • The consensus theory of truth — that what is true is what everyone agrees to be true • The pragmatic theory of truth — that what is true is what is useful to you, or bene cial for you In the course of this research I discovered the different types of truths and have been forced to come to terms with what is my… my truth in my life. And at rst re ection I believe all four of these forms of truth have been in my life. At times I found one more useful or comforting than another. Yet I did not begin this project to say my life is just another customer in the buffet line trying out every menu item. At some point we decide what is the form and basis of truth by which h to run our lives. This is the essence for what Searching For Credence is about. My life, my journey, my credence. You can if you want do your own search. This is just mine that I ma sharing. While I may have based my decisions on various forms of truth theory, the one that has dominated and controlled my choices is the correspondence theory of truth. That observable reality is essential to be true to self alone. That requires awareness, lack of blockage and opinions, fears, drama, drama and childhood memories. And it is the toughest truth to know, takes constant practice, hard work meditation, challenging partners, friends a a lifestyle that supports this journey. Credence Clearwater Revival’s in uence on me….

Cut of their lyrics - run thru the jungle, don’t look back

How Credence - impacted the US in the 60s. Challenged everyone with action

Key works/phrases

- who is burning

- time eeting, inception

- lucid dreaming

A Totem is an object that is used to test if oneself is in one's own reality (dream or nondream) and not in another person's dream.

- Totems in my life: is this a dream or real, do I give this credence.

QUOTE for each of the 6 sections…

1. Immersion as a vehicle ( rst person) and seeing the reality of life up close and personal

1. Gavin Luke Immersion

2. Paler Sun Hushed

3. Chub Sea Stars - simple beauty, powerful force of the sea

4. Flats Bone shing

5. Underwater camera action

6. Midway pure true as it its today, rst person

1. First hand experiences of the truth as it is

7. The truths of my childhood - church, authority, hypocrisy

8. Lucid dreaming -

- Jonesy Rock Art Kimberley + Chub Flats - safe, anxiety replaced with wonder… 2. Breakouts (no looking back) new country, new waters - never been there, Run thru the Jungle and don’t look back…. Just going someplace for the rst time and being aware that the world is not how people describe it - like Cuba

1. Clair De Lune

***The Kimberley story… grad school…

2. Naked Walk in the woods, Carson

2. Stranded Magazine: real personal

3. The Kimberley and Jonesy/Simon: keeping country

3. Lucid dreams - photo, multiple exposure

3. Migration to Boulder from WY and CA

4. Back to Sea

5. Hans Zimmer:

- Interstellar escaping thru time travel Corn eld Chase

6. The Tracker: 1:45 PG LWH

7. Stealing dreams/Inception (see below)

- David G Cuba and those truths ******good culture info. Tropicana - was not suppose to be like this. Who did I believe?

3. Standing Ground(regardless of the truth) (or Faced with a di erent truth) - Gulf Oil Spill…. -

1. Story Goes

2. Sunset Marina

3. Storer Foundation (not)

3. Brother Joe

4. Saying yes but meaning no…

5. E gy: Likeness of a person

5. Burn in E gy - who and why?

- Mom and Dad

6. Who is burning, who is burning?

7. Truthiness: feels true but actually false

8. De nitions of truth and theories of truth - how do we know where we actually are

4. Explore the Edges (of truth) - Simon Fires in the Kimberley… unattended, big deal, who is in charge? Dangerous?

1. Time by Hans Zimmer

2. Seeing the res burn in the distance

3. Fires in the Kimberley

3. Trump ags in Sunset Marina 4. Social con icts in the world, local, family

5. That is my cure - Sherlock and HZ

6. Long Walk Home: Jigalong

5. The Dark Side: Another Immersion. Or maybe Credence 1. American Beauty Thomas Newman

2. Not a good way out with out severe pain

3. End game or death

4. Zara and the

4. Burn in e gy - who me? Why me?

5. Panic, sheer bloody panic - HZ

6. Silence - Thin Red Line HZ. Close out the lm

7. The Tracker: LWH Peter Gabriel…. 1:45 start

- Karratha/POrt Hedland - the bad guys

vs fear

6. Finding Home: Simple Gifts, Now We are Free

1. The Tracker: Peter Gabriel

POst Covid Credence (New Truths)

Credence. - what is the 2021 event? Zara after 24 months (probably) - trusting my new voice with Joe, Kate and Zara…. That is the climax of new found truths or truths that were ignored or afraid of (most likely)

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Appendix

PLaylist

Lyric Whoa, thought it was a nightmare Lord it was so true They told me don't go walking slow The devil's on the loose Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Whoa, don't look back to see Thought I heard a rumblin' Calling to my name Two hundred million guns are loaded Satan cries, "Take aim" Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Whoa, don't look back to see Over on the mountain, thunder magic spoke Let the people know my wisdom Fill the land with smoke Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Better run through the jungle Whoa, don't look back to see

Lyric

I see the bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin' I see bad times today Don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a-blowing I know the end is coming soon I fear rivers over flowing I hear the voice of rage and ruin Well don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise, all right Hope you got your things together Hope you are quite prepared to die Looks like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye Well don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise Don't come around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise Source: LyricFind

Inception From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi

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Inception

Theatrical release poster Directed by Christopher Nolan Written by

Christopher Nolan

• Emma Thomas • Christopher Nolan Starring • Leonardo DiCaprio • Ken Watanabe • Joseph GordonLevitt • Marion Cotillard • Elliot Page[a] • Tom Hardy • Cillian Murphy • Tom Berenger • Michael Caine Cinematography Wally P ster

Produced by

Edited by

Lee Smith

Music by

Hans Zimmer

Production companies Distributed by

• Legendary Pictures • Syncopy Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date

• July 8, 2010 (Odeon Leicester Square) • July 16, 2010 (United States and United Kingdom) 148 minutes[1]

Running time Countries Language

• United States[2] • United Kingdom[2] English

Budget

$160 million[3]

Box of ce

$836.8 million[3]

Inception is a 2010 science ction action lm[4][5][6] written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the lm with Emma Thomas, his wife. The lm stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by in ltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.[7] The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page,[a] Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine After the 2002 completion of Insomnia, Nolan presented to Warner Bros. a written 80-page treatment for a horror lm envisioning "dream stealers," based on lucid dreaming.[8] Deciding he needed more experience before tackling a production of this magnitude and complexity, Nolan shelved the project and instead worked on 2005's Batman Begins, 2006's The Prestige, and The Dark Knight in 2008.[9] The treatment was revised over 6 months and was purchased by Warner in February 2009.[10] Inception was lmed in six countries, beginning in Tokyo on June 19 and ending in Canada on November 22.[11] Its of cial budget was $160 million, split between Warner Bros. and Legendary.[12] Nolan's reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the lm's US$100 million in advertising expenditure Inception's premiere was held in London on July 8, 2010; it was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters beginning on July 16, 2010.[13][14] Inception grossed over $828 million worldwide, becoming the fourthhighest-grossing lm of 2010. Considered one of the best lms of the

That said, I recognize the likelihood that you clicked on this article not because you wanted a breakdown of what the nal scene indicates about the protagonist’s emotional journey, but because you want an answer to a very speci c question: does the damn top fall???? Cobb may not care about the answer, but you certainly do So here’s your answer: yes it does. Technically this is an educated guess but it’s also an educated guess made with about 99 percent certainty. It’s kind of like Schrodinger’s cat. You can’t technically know for sure that the cat is dead — even though it’s stuck in a box with a fatal dose of poison — until you open it. But also, it’s de nitely dead. The same basic logic applies here. You don’t see the top fall, but in the context of various information established over the course of the lm, you can conclude with considerable con dence that that sucker is about to tire itself out and tip right ove

The rst reason is that the spinning top isn’t Cobb’s totem. As he mentions in the lm, it’s Mal’s, and unless Arthur’s big speech to Ariadne about the purpose of

2010s,[15] Inception received critical praise for its screenplay, direction, themes, action sequences, visual effects, musical score, and ensemble cast.[16] It won four Academy Awards (Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects) and was nominated for four more: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Score

totems and proper totem etiquette earlier in the lm is all stuff and nonsense, their functionality is not transitive. You can’t co-opt someone else’s totem, even if they’re your spouse. There’s a popular Redditspawned theory that Cobb’s totem is really his wedding ring, as he is repeatedly spotted wearing it in dreams but not in reality, because, as he admits, “In my dreams we’re still together.” It’s a pretty clever theory and a de nite contender, even if there isn’t quite enough evidence to label it as de nitively true

A Totem is an object that is used to test if oneself is in one's own reality (dream or non-dream) and not in another person's dream.