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To: cvolkay
They both peer out and see what they want to see, not what is.

To think or not to think is man's primary choice. Evasion is the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think, because of the anti-effort mentality, or to avoid a bad feeling, or in order to escape the responsibility of judgment, on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it.

7 posted on 07/07/2016 4:20:44 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: mjp

“To think or not to think is man’s primary choice.”

As I learned long ago in Philosophy 101 (Logic): Beware the false major premise.

You posit the premise as if simply thinking will deliver us from all our woes. Look at the long line of philosophers and other thinkers. Thinking hasn’t delivered us from our woes even though it has been tried - and diligently! - for centuries, why would it work now?

While I neither agree with liberal scientists or Christian Scientists, I don’t find your solution any more compelling ... the problem is greater than that which you have framed. There is something else, something magnitudes more fundamental wrong with the human condition.


8 posted on 07/07/2016 7:11:28 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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