Yes, This essay is fascinating to me. I am quite surprised that such thought even exists. I will have to read it several times in order to fully understand it. Thanks for the link. I have been "discussing" with a local professor, age 95, for some years. He simply will NOT accept any position on anything that does not meet with his preconceived opinions, all of which are "far left". He does not believe that objective truth exists, believes completely contrary things about important matters, believes everything posited by the modern news-media, etc. He drives me nuts. His field is metallurgy. He is also "half-Jewish"...and Swedish.
Trying to communicate with such people is almost entirely pointless. Absent at least SOME ability to do analytical logic, they are essentially emotion machines and can be driven off cliffs or into mass murder quite easily, but cannot be made to actually think. Or understand objective reality exists.
Hmmm...I hadn't thought of the following until I read your last line above: the words "reality" and "truth" are, essentially, synonyms in their meaning.
Problem solving skills are linked to IQ. Aside from the manufactured emotional reactivity of most entitled lazy Americans, myself included at one point. When you look at the fabric of current society the manufactured elimination of intrinsic motivation produces infantile adolescent humans incapable of executing basic comprehensive solutions. It is a purposeful degredation of cognitive functioning specficially within western cultures. Another reason for the imported invasion of low iq dogs of war. To brown wash the purity of White European culture that has been capable of producing the creation of better societies all of these centuries.
Depends on the level of solipsism/narcissism. And even then the communication style is of paramount importance. There will be several posts on this topic on my blog. The possibilities for positive effects are astonishing.
Curiousity: your take on that is much like ours (i.e. my wife's and mine). Both of us are....or were, before we got so old...intensely curious about almost everything. As far as I can tell, we have not been able to instill that into our children...it seems. We have 6 of those. We got married "late" in life: she was 36 and I was 38 at the time. Neither of us had ever been married before. She gave me a reason to live: before that I really didn't have any. I just wanted to go home. Still do.
Those thoughts make sense. Thanks. Perhaps I am being too hard on them: they do have curiosity: just not as intense, nor the same, as their mother's and mine. We (she, mostly) home-schooled them. BTW, I bought another of your books: "Believe!" I believe. ;-) Oh. Is your "needed farm tools" list up-to-date? Have enough fence posts yet?
Well, I most certainly need to read your blog on that issue!!! Hopefully, I can learn enough to help some people. Trouble is, most people don't want any such help. So many people are not self-aware enough to understand their need for such help. I think such people need to be smacked upside the head by God in order to be able to change.
The power of the negative PROGRAMMING that influences through ALL social media platforms is something that, I believe, has been extremely underestimated by parents who never had those distractions. (It is also made worse by the adults who are addicited to it themselves-not saying that is you and your wife, just parents/adults in general.) Try not to be too hard on your kids or yourself bc the propaganda programming has been going on for decades and it was finely tuned on the boomer/genx generations-mk ultra. Then it was accelerated and unleashed onto the millenial & zoomer generations via high speed internet. There is an ability to enhance your personal awareness "work past solipsism", I agree with The Kurgan, that it depends on a persons want to accept accountability and exact change. As a female it should be darn near impossible for me to shed that self-absorption, in the beginning, I think it really was. Its a constant effort to not fall into those toxic behaviors. Thats the diffculty with growing, not everybody is willing to do the hard work.
No. Mostly because I don’t rate anything he says as meaningfully relevant to me in any way. It might be he has SOME positive thing here and there, stopped clock and all that, but not really relevant to my life in any way.
Yes, This essay is fascinating to me. I am quite surprised that such thought even exists. I will have to read it several times in order to fully understand it. Thanks for the link. I have been "discussing" with a local professor, age 95, for some years. He simply will NOT accept any position on anything that does not meet with his preconceived opinions, all of which are "far left". He does not believe that objective truth exists, believes completely contrary things about important matters, believes everything posited by the modern news-media, etc. He drives me nuts. His field is metallurgy. He is also "half-Jewish"...and Swedish.
Trying to communicate with such people is almost entirely pointless. Absent at least SOME ability to do analytical logic, they are essentially emotion machines and can be driven off cliffs or into mass murder quite easily, but cannot be made to actually think. Or understand objective reality exists.
Hmmm...I hadn't thought of the following until I read your last line above: the words "reality" and "truth" are, essentially, synonyms in their meaning.
Yes.
Problem solving skills are linked to IQ. Aside from the manufactured emotional reactivity of most entitled lazy Americans, myself included at one point. When you look at the fabric of current society the manufactured elimination of intrinsic motivation produces infantile adolescent humans incapable of executing basic comprehensive solutions. It is a purposeful degredation of cognitive functioning specficially within western cultures. Another reason for the imported invasion of low iq dogs of war. To brown wash the purity of White European culture that has been capable of producing the creation of better societies all of these centuries.
One question: is it even possible to "work" a person past solipsism? I firmly believe it would take a direct act by God Himself to do this.
Depends on the level of solipsism/narcissism. And even then the communication style is of paramount importance. There will be several posts on this topic on my blog. The possibilities for positive effects are astonishing.
Curiousity: your take on that is much like ours (i.e. my wife's and mine). Both of us are....or were, before we got so old...intensely curious about almost everything. As far as I can tell, we have not been able to instill that into our children...it seems. We have 6 of those. We got married "late" in life: she was 36 and I was 38 at the time. Neither of us had ever been married before. She gave me a reason to live: before that I really didn't have any. I just wanted to go home. Still do.
I think curiosity is fostered by making kids play outside without too many silly toys and teaching them things. But a component is genetic.
Those thoughts make sense. Thanks. Perhaps I am being too hard on them: they do have curiosity: just not as intense, nor the same, as their mother's and mine. We (she, mostly) home-schooled them. BTW, I bought another of your books: "Believe!" I believe. ;-) Oh. Is your "needed farm tools" list up-to-date? Have enough fence posts yet?
Yes it’s up to date, and no I never have enough of anything for the most part. Thanks for the purchase. Please, leave a review if you like it.
Well, I most certainly need to read your blog on that issue!!! Hopefully, I can learn enough to help some people. Trouble is, most people don't want any such help. So many people are not self-aware enough to understand their need for such help. I think such people need to be smacked upside the head by God in order to be able to change.
The power of the negative PROGRAMMING that influences through ALL social media platforms is something that, I believe, has been extremely underestimated by parents who never had those distractions. (It is also made worse by the adults who are addicited to it themselves-not saying that is you and your wife, just parents/adults in general.) Try not to be too hard on your kids or yourself bc the propaganda programming has been going on for decades and it was finely tuned on the boomer/genx generations-mk ultra. Then it was accelerated and unleashed onto the millenial & zoomer generations via high speed internet. There is an ability to enhance your personal awareness "work past solipsism", I agree with The Kurgan, that it depends on a persons want to accept accountability and exact change. As a female it should be darn near impossible for me to shed that self-absorption, in the beginning, I think it really was. Its a constant effort to not fall into those toxic behaviors. Thats the diffculty with growing, not everybody is willing to do the hard work.
Have you had the chance to read Peaceful Parenting by Stefan Molyneux?
No. Mostly because I don’t rate anything he says as meaningfully relevant to me in any way. It might be he has SOME positive thing here and there, stopped clock and all that, but not really relevant to my life in any way.