Tag: Group-think
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Ignorance, Fear and Irrationality
youtube.com/watch In a world increasingly fearful and seemingly incapable of scientifically assessing assertions made by ‘believers’, we now find an increasing number of youth clinging to ‘hope’ that religion can fill their vacuum. Unfortunately, this pleasant fiction does nothing to improve their angst as nothing changes through prayer, which is essentially, doing nothing substantive. Thoughts…
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America. Just Do The Right Thing.
How is it, that Americans can be so polarized, by leadership, by party, by religion, by race, by ignorance? If I asked each American, absent from his ‘clan’. What would you do if? “If”, personalizes the problem. You don’t have to look around to see who is watching, who is listening. It’s just you, and…
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Don’t Tell Me Facts!
What Happens When You Can’t Justify Your “Beliefs?” Today was interesting. I was banned from a motorcycle website because my ‘facts’ didn’t fit an admin’s beliefs. It wasn’t about any belief that should have created a visceral reaction from anyone, but in this case, it did. And it only got worse when I provided scientific…