posted on Jul, 11 2011 @ 06:09 AM
It seems to me that one can either accept the idea that people cannot be cleansed of thier bad programming, or work against the tide, and push it back
to the shore. I choose to be open to critique, and to assimilate new information into my paradigm without over much hand wringing. Learning ones
information is incorrect, must always produce an altered understanding of the world , or at least the part of the world which is related to the new
input.
An example: When I was five, I surmised that heavy thunderstorms were the sound of God trying to play honkey tonk piano while drunk. I am now twenty
six, and this error in my understanding has been corrected, because I now know that thunder is the sound of lightning, the sound of the displaced air
around a bolt of electrical energy, slamming back to fill the gap left by burnt air.
When I was three, I thought it would be interesting to go to the moon on holiday, because it looked nice and cool there, rather than being searing
hot, and therefore utterly unplesant. Of course I later became aware that although it might seem to have a nicer climate, it infact has no climate to
speak of, and is slightly to hard to get to , to consider it a viable holiday destination.
Surely the very process of cognitive development of thought, throws something of a spanner in the works of the suggestion that all things that are
posited are true?