Comments on: Your Mind Plays Tricks On You

By: Karanime

Karanime — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:48:12 +0000

Dude, you have no idea!

A few weeks before Halloween, I thought we had EVERY Nevada day off (Nevada day is the 31st, BTW), when really, we never did until this year. I so totally thought I was right that I was a little angry when everyone said, “You were absent at school every October 31st, then.”

>.< I mean, they coulda been nicer, but that would be a memory that totally created itself…

/<3

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:25:46 +0000

Hey hey hey, let’s not vilify the pitbull just because Palin is acting like a viscious dog. I’ve had two pitbulls. Both were big lap dogs who loved little kids. I’m sure many people want Palin in their lap, and she loves little kids, but I don’t think that has anything to do with anything. Totally lost where I was going with this. *laughs rather maniacally* (and oh yes, maniacally is the correct spelling, I looked it up!)

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By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:45:04 +0000

@ Sal – I know what you mean and the worst thing is that they seem just as real as genuine memories.

@ Awareness – that is a really good point and to be honest, not one I’d considered before. I have always struggled to understand why some seemingly intelligent people make such ridiculous decisions. Maybe now I know!

@ Bryan – I agree that the US seems like a divided country, especially at election time. Is that not the same elsewhere though? I know it was very much like that in the UK and I honestly don’t know what you can do to change things. The simple fact is that people don’t like to compromise their values and that is what’s required to come to a consensus. Thanks for commenting.

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» Awareness is Different Than Intelligence | The Four Agreements Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:52:23 +0000

[...] good article on how beliefs distort your perceptions, and therefore you analysis and [...]

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:43:22 +0000

The USA is bleeding from an old wound: the divide within. It is like a cancer and it’s eating away at civility and order and good decision making. People have dug in their heels supporting their ’side’ while many seem to have forgotten that this is one country not two. It amazes me that people can’t see what has gone on the past eight years with Bush/Cheney and the oil industry. The war on terror is ideological…it’s not happening in Iraq. We’re occupying Iraq for the proximity to the oil. If you don’t realize that, you’re not listening. But now we’ve got Palin acting like a pit bull and calling it righteous. Pit bulls have a reputation of maiming and killing children and the elderly and those unable to defend themselves. Apparently this image is appealing to Palin just as it has been to Bush/Cheney. We need help here in the USA but instead of asking, we get upped attacks on each other. I’m afraid all this upheaval and distress has barely begun…

By: Awareness

Awareness — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:41:59 +0000

Good article about how our mind distorts things according to our beliefs.

Awareness is not the same as intelligence And intelligence is no substitute for awareness. Awareness provides a clarity of perspective, even clarity of what your beliefs and assumptions are. Intelligence is how you process and analyze what you see. But if you don’t have awareness to see things clearly, no amount of intelligence is going to help you because you are starting with a distorted set of assumptions.

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:18:29 +0000

Tim, I am so glad you posted this one. Ever since you were tweeting about it, I couldn’t wait to see how it all tied together. Very nice indeed. Personally, I hate false memories because then it looks like you are a big liar if you are re-telling the story with someone else who was also there. “So I was wearing that red shirt.” “No you weren’t it was blue you blubbering idiot!” “Oh crap, it was blue wasn’t it!?!” Blech.

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:43:42 +0000

@ Doug – Yep, there a pretty good bunch all in all and I’m lucky to have them openly sharing their opinions.

A MASSIVE thanks to everybody that responded to this it was great to hear your thoughts.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:24:13 +0000

Hey, Tim . . .

Looks like civility is the way for this blog. Seems that way naturally. Which is great.

Speaks well of you and everyone who posts here.

Time for me to get some errands done. Take care, all.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:22:03 +0000

@ Laurie,

Thanks. Much appreciated. One big aspect of Tim’s “discomfort zone” is exactly what you say above. Challenging ourselves. We all need to do that on a regular basis. But there are ways to do so without offending others. Something I need to work on, reshape. Even, “reframe.”

Bottom line for me: I believe in a pluralistic society and love difference. I think we should promote that, promote the freedom to walk a different path. I think we get into the most trouble as a nation when one ideology or another dominates and shuts everything else out, or limits things to one or two acceptable views. Open it all up. Let freedom ring and all of that.

In a sense, a nation goes through what all of us go through on an individual basis. Choosing what voices to listen to. The many or the few. Variety or sameness. Difference, the Other, the Foreign, or what we feel most comfortable with. Of course, nothing is automatically good or bad depending upon foreignness or sameness. We still have to decide. But I think we’re all better off if we’re open to all of it . . . .