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Dear reader, PHILOSOPHY is another word for the way we think, if you think,
then you too have your own philosophy, so reading about other peoples
philosophy and thoughts will expand your own mind. If you need a reason to share your
philosophy - there it is ...... Stella
BELIEFS’
ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN INTELLIGENCE -
WHY SHOULD
THAT BE?
This may surprise a lot of people. But I
really
do not understand why highly
intelligent people unquestioningly
accept beliefs
without evidence purely on the basis of
ancient
writings. Many were created during an
age of superstition,
an age where science and empiricism or
formal
logic did not exist. It was a time when
priests
used to beat the sea with sticks as a
punishment
for damaging their buildings.
Some of
these priests
and rabbis were the writers of what we
find to-day
in the Old Testament. We do not know the
exact
identity or the character of these
writers, or
their motivation or their level of
superstition
or their level of spirituality. We do
not even
have the original, authentic Biblical
texts. And
there is evidence which shows that the
Biblical
writings have been changed many, many
times. .
Psychology and Neurolinguistic
Programming (NLP)
tell us how irrational, illogical
beliefs-without-evidence
dominate and over-ride intelligence,
even high
intelligence; to avoid anxiety the
believer dumps
his/her intelligence refuses to read or
acknowledge
the existence of any information
fundamentally
inconsistent with our cherished beliefs.
He/she
ignores anything likely to create
anxiety and
starts to rationalize his strange and
bizarre
early indoctrinated beliefs. Intelligent
rationale,
proper analysis, and 'equitable'
evaluation are
interrupted and encumbered by early
adverse conditioning.
Question your
beliefs and
if the beliefs don’t make sense –
throw them out or flush them away.
Develop a healthy
empirical rationale for everything –
guaranteed,
you will be hugely better off.
This was from my favorite Website of Victor Zammit.
http://www.victorzammit.com/week2
"All
that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men should do
nothing" - Edmund Burke.
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