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Mon 30 Jan, 2006 04:59 am
if we are able to arouse our curiosity, guard our most precious concerns from blatant manipulation by others.
curiosity - I knew I was on the right track.
curiouser and curiouser.
You're right, the more curious you are the more likely you are to look for multiple possibilities to a question.
Oft times you'll find more than one answer fits the question.
It's instilled in you that it's unlikely there is just one way to view something.
I find that my curiosity really annoys some people. Thinking about it, they are generally those who think black and white and don't want to view the possibility of grey.
That's too much like work, and might cause them to change their minds and move from their comfortable little burrow.
Very interesting.
thanks coberst.
Yes. That is why religion has always been able to make converts in undeveloped regions of the world.
au1929 wrote:Yes. That is why religion has always been able to make converts in undeveloped regions of the world.
like Mississippi?
OH!
Sorry, I didn't say that.
It is not my purpose in life to answer questions, my purpose is to question answers.
I think if a person has a good sense of self, you cannot brainwash that person. Ignorance, abuse, etc., as means of brainwashing, only come later, when sense of self starts to fade.
But someone can getted brainwashed from birth, never having a sense of self.
Interesting Phoenix, I wonder why some people are so much more pliable to suggestion?
I mean more in a biological sense. Do you think there is something genetic attached to this as well as phychological?
For people with little education it is easier to fill the void than those who are well educated and can think and reason or are worldly wise.. Again that is why missionaries have success in the third world
No, I'm not familiar with him, but I'll have to make a note to read up.
Yeah, I just found that out about craven the other day when I was seaching for something else...his name popped up and I was intrigued.
Do you think the genetic part would go not just for cults or extreme situations like concentration camps?
Not to get going about myself, but when I look at my family dynamics I see that I just would not be quashed.
We were raised the same, the attempt being made not to question anything.
I'm the only one who 100% just would not go along with that, regardless of the consequences. Well, some things you put up with for self preservation of course. but I've often wondered why the others went along, the only difference I can see if I got some kind of recessive gene.
Maybe Craven had that gene to.....
Interesting, is there a thread that discusses his situation more?
Craven?
I think that there exists a reality out there that cannot be comprehended without study. Each of us needs to change our attitude regarding learning. Learning is a means for us to understand reality. Without study we know only the surface of reality.
Each of us needs to start today on changing our attitude toward learning. Our schooling has left us with a dangerous attitude toward learning. If we were to start with something that we are curious about, go to the library get a card and start the process of learning how to learn without a teacher holding your hand.
Pick something that interests you and start by developing a question then start with the library or the Internet and start your learning how to understand process. Like every thing it will start slowly but you will not regret it if you do get into this process. Consider that you are beginning a lifetime of learning to understand whatever you are interested in.
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