"... There is a substantial body of psychological research showing that people tend to interpret information with an eye toward reinforcing their preexisting views. If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs, and actively dismiss information that doesn’t. This is known as “motivated reasoning.” Whether or not the consistent information is accurate, we might accept it as fact, as confirmation of our beliefs. This makes us more confident in said beliefs, and even less likely to entertain facts that contradict them...."
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I think there's a lot of truth in this statement.
Belief systems are a curious thing and are based largely, IMO, on what we CHOOSE to believe from what other people have said and written and on our own observations of the world.
We hold certain beliefs that we subconsciously believe are essential to our survival and if we can't break through this, we'll reject a lot of new ideas.
Or we have a vested interest based on certain "facts".
What is fact, that is the question. There are many "facts" that aren't real facts, IMO, just our beliefs as to which are the true facts.
I'd express it more as whether people will accept new discoveries. Example: Isaac Newton discovered the "fact" of gravity, which was already there - gravity was an undiscovered "fact" before Newton studied and named it.
"I think there's a lot of truth in this statement.
Belief systems are a curious thing and are based largely, IMO, on what we CHOOSE to believe from what other people have said and written and on our own observations of the world.
We hold certain beliefs that we subconsciously believe are essential to our survival and if we can't break through this, we'll reject a lot of new ideas.
Or we have a vested interest based on certain "facts".
What is fact, that is the question. There are many "facts" that aren't real facts, IMO, just our beliefs as to which are the true facts.
I'd express it more as whether people will accept new discoveries. Example: Isaac Newton discovered the "fact" of gravity, which was already there - gravity was an undiscovered "fact" before Newton studied and named it."
Mira
It is a fact that Mira stated the quotation above!)
The naming of gravity, is an interesting point. Definition born into the human consciousness, through the communication of words. Hence most facts are communicated through words, ultimately every argument will end up being an argument of logic where we determine if the inference of a group of messages or a source of information is reliable. If the information source is deemed reliable by us then we trust that source. Without reliable inference "democracy" as a binding concept does not adhere.
"I'd express it more as whether people will accept new discoveries. Example: Isaac Newton discovered the "fact" of gravity, which was already there - gravity was an undiscovered "fact" before Newton studied and named it."
Actually gravity is a belief. Release the consenual agreement from your DNA and you can transcend it. This is what ancient humanity was easily capable of.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” (Samuel Adams)
the first thing is done - error and intended wrong so that the right thing done is the only accepted believed correction of the merciless expension of evil, and all this the mind knows.
Man have no God but evil to generate the poisonous seeds.
that is why he goes down while using its evil frustration and anger to produce more things to make him going down again and again and he thinks he enjoys it so more and more. But what he enjoys he ignores and it goes against himself.
if man cares he will feed himself the Love and right that he does not make from himself (the mind, from the death) to be loved. Abel!
One has to be humble to understand this and to know the law of resistance or friction, that is with every push there is a push in the opposite and so the formations of thing are invented. but now there is more heat to just see only the side he pushes and cherish to his heart. The big deed!
How can real creation help our body from suicide?
Where is the satisfied awareness or consciouness or spirituality giving the body or home a soul to live?
where is your home? in Europe? In America? In Africa? where on earth or the hereafter?
Thanks for the sensitive attention of the livings.
Researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed cure zone posters were exposed to facts, that their livers became as clogged as rooftop gutters in fall.
Both my parents did go to the University of Michigan. And I have never been there except to stand in the airport in Detroit. Many times. Between connecting flights. And I hate the Lions. They lose every Thanksgiving . Well almost all games...........
But I did love the schtick. Bigtime. Mr Chin. And I will admit. I don't look like Jay Leno. And I would have to put toothpicks in my eyes to really give any authenticity to having some-type of 'chin' or gook-y-ness I mean geek-y-ness in my name.
(Although I did have sex with a chinese girl many moons ago)
Yeah and the liver is tied to all that chinese 'stuff'. And points. Doesn't help ya to score with the ladies though. Those points seem to operate on a different level there. They seem to have a brain of their own. And just wag that defiant tail in your face.
How do you guys walk around with one of those things???????
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