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Friday, August 17, 2012

A note to all of my idealist friends:



If you want the world to be the perfect place that you have in your mind then follow these steps to get there from here:
  1. Take a realistic look at the world for what it really is.
  2. Listen to information from sources that you don’t normally get it from.
  3. Stop demonizing people who have different views than your own.
  4. Have pleasant conversations with people who have different views, and try and understand where they are coming from.
  5. Start questioning your beliefs, and check to see if they are factually accurate. The truth can’t hurt you.
  6. The world is the way it is today because of things that happened yesterday. Pay attention to history.
  7. Problems in the world have a root cause, and those causes usually aren’t what you think. For example if a person is sick with cancer you may think that cancer is the root cause, but why the person got cancer in the first place is the real root cause.
Why did I write this? Because I think the world would be a better place if people started thinking about what they say and do, and stopped relying on others to think for them. If everyone started doing this then the world would become closer to the perfect place I would want it to be. But I’m not an idealist so I won’t hold my breath.   

7 comments:

  1. I want to high-five you in the biggest way for this. This is especially timely considering it's election season.

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    1. Thanks Jen!

      I wish people would take a few minutes of their time when they see or hear some political blather and check around to see if it's true. There are site that are reputable that help fact checking like http://www.factcheck.org/ and others that help weed through the deceptive blather. But unfortunately people would rather spew rhetoric that they heard from some radio talk show host, or from some other echo tank where nonsense gets bounced around like it is fact.

      I just get so tired of people who have to think they are right about everything at all cost regardless of reality. For many idealist facts just don't matter.

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  2. Dan I so agree with you, and I too applaud your decision to put this out there. People should always be willing to listen to facts and search out the truth not just accept the jar-gain they are spoon fed. Well said. :)

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    1. Thanks Dani, I think that most humans are indoctrinated into learning a bunch of hoo hoo at an early age that they don't question. Beliefs stick even when facts are presented right to people's faces.
      Humans are a strange bunch of monkeys.

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  3. Interesting to read and go through all of it. Hey, I think cancer needs to be cured, can you prevent anyone being infected by this disease ? I really don't think so.

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    1. Most cancers have a root cause. Smoking is the cause of lung cancer, so not smoking stops it before it happens. Cancers come from all sorts of affects like being exposed to chemicals for instance. Cervical cancer is caused by the HPV virus, so not being exposed to HPV stops that one. Vegetarians have fewer cancers overall, so eating less meat decreases a person's chance of cancer. So I would say that there are root causes of many types of cancers.

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  4. I think people like fighting with each other, at least they seem to do an awful lot of it.

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