Message from @AmandaTheJedi

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2018-10-04 11:50:49 UTC  

I like how the cop was like you can leave bitch

2018-10-04 11:51:08 UTC  

Then she started crying even harder and triggering like cray

2018-10-04 12:01:17 UTC  

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2018-10-04 12:05:07 UTC  

Well that's what I don't get. 1. Why they have the percieved idea they have. 2. Why they need to defend it.

2018-10-04 12:07:00 UTC  

They have these ideas because someone told them to have them and they never questioned it.

2018-10-04 12:07:17 UTC  

Why didn't they question it?

2018-10-04 12:07:29 UTC  

Because why?

2018-10-04 12:07:59 UTC  

Well I tend to question things, generally when they impact me, though, often when they don't.

2018-10-04 12:08:08 UTC  

So, why don't others?

2018-10-04 12:08:11 UTC  

I mean their professor told them.

2018-10-04 12:09:14 UTC  

Why don‘t others? Because they go to college and college got rid of critical thinking and replaced it with critical theory.

2018-10-04 12:09:15 UTC  

One of the most common reasons why people act irrationally is because they have become emotionally attached.

You want to reason them out of their belief, but you cannot reason someone out of something that they have not been reasoned into to begin with.

2018-10-04 12:10:02 UTC  

So, you have to go to college to learn how to think?

2018-10-04 12:10:15 UTC  

Or, rather, now that you don't learn to think in college it's not possible?

2018-10-04 12:10:16 UTC  

No, heavens no!

2018-10-04 12:10:22 UTC  

That's the last place you want to go nowadays.

2018-10-04 12:10:39 UTC  

No i think you have to go to college to learn WHAT to think.

2018-10-04 12:10:49 UTC  

If their reason for their belief was emotional, then it is hard to convince them with reason, instead of emotion.

2018-10-04 12:11:18 UTC  

Sure, I suppose that puts a nice little bow on the whole thing. Then it turns into what made it emotional.

2018-10-04 12:11:20 UTC  

School often favors regurgitation, it's how well you can mimic what your teacher believes

2018-10-04 12:11:24 UTC  

My grandmother wanted to belief that my grandfather's ghost was still in our house.

Should I have tried to reason her out of it?

2018-10-04 12:11:27 UTC  

They are not teaching HOW to think anymore and replaced it with courses that tell you WHAT to think.

2018-10-04 12:12:00 UTC  

To think you must be taught how? interesting...

2018-10-04 12:12:03 UTC  

The reason for her belief was entirely emotional.

2018-10-04 12:12:37 UTC  

Right and in that one we can assume it's because she had feelings for her husband.

2018-10-04 12:12:44 UTC  

Honestly, you learn really well how to tell people what they want to hear and that's just an invaluable skill

2018-10-04 12:12:51 UTC  

Yes, thinking for yourself is something you have to learn.

2018-10-04 12:12:55 UTC  

that's where the emotion came from. In these other cases, where is it coming from?

2018-10-04 12:12:58 UTC  

Well, in all seriousness, I did learn how to think more clearly, from books. One of the books that has influenced the rigor of my thinking more than any other was Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter.

2018-10-04 12:13:27 UTC  

Many people do not know how to think properly.

2018-10-04 12:14:02 UTC  

And there are always ways I can increase the rigor of my own thinking.

2018-10-04 12:14:59 UTC  

Eh, i don't pay much attention i figure if i am wrong someone will correct me, though, they will have to make more sense than my already established view on the subject.

2018-10-04 12:15:32 UTC  

We often argue that one should not be able to hold two contradicting beliefs in our head at the same time, but we do so all the time.

If two trains approach each other and we expect them to meet at a different time than they actually would, then that is a contradiction. But contradictions are not always obvious. A lot of contradictions actually require substantial thought to uncover. Any incorrectness in the body of our scientific knowledge is a contradiction with some other model.

2018-10-04 12:16:47 UTC  

The degree to which some contradictions become obvious to you depends on your intelligence, but no matter how intelligent you are, there are always contradictions whose uncovering are out of reach of your intelligence.

2018-10-04 12:17:30 UTC  

Trump announced the US is withdrawing from the vienna convention on diplomatic relations

2018-10-04 12:17:46 UTC  

Well that's nice, but it seems a bit unrelated to my question of where these people are getting their emotional attachment from.

2018-10-04 12:17:59 UTC  

because the ICJ wouldnt allow sanctions on Iran

2018-10-04 12:18:24 UTC  

Is it really just group think? Tribalism.

2018-10-04 12:18:44 UTC  

Where do they get their emotional attachment from? Their emotions of course. You have to inquire what particular emotional association they make in particular.

2018-10-04 12:19:09 UTC  

For women, for example, there is currently a sort of threat narrative, the predatory male.