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The Two Questions go unasked too often:
Why do we see the way we do?
Why don't we see the way we do?
Everybody thinks the way they see things
is the way things are.
And that is the bane of our existence.
Sit down with the way you see things.
Who/what has been most influential
in determining that to be the way to see things?
Which, in turn, determines how you live
in relation to things.
The life we live is lived in relation
to how we think things are.
If we change the way we think,
we change the way we live.
It would be helpful if the way we think about things
is closely aligned with the way things are--
instead of assuming that the way things are
is equivalent to the way we see things.
Start questioning everything!!!
What makes us think that the way we think about things
is the way to think about things?
All of our judgments, evaluations, decisions, conclusions
are false assumptions based on our preferences and inclinations.
And we all are essentially tribal based.
We see the way our tribe sees things.
Magas see things the way Magas see things.
Woke people see things the way Woke people see things.
Hindus see like Hindus.
Fundamentalist Christians see like Fundamentalist Christians.
Drunks see like Drunks...
All because we don't see the way we see things.
All because we don't see who is responsible for our seeing.
Who is responsible for the way you see things?
I remember the Mississippi delta of my youth,
and the Deep South of my youth and young adulthood.
And the work to throw off the inculcated attitudes
absorbed from my environment in my twenties
and continuing throughout my life,
based on being aware of and questioning my assumptions,
presumptions and uncritical inferences.
Which was made possible by my "stumbling"
(No one ever "stumbles" onto anything,
or "falls" into anything. We are either
willing recruits of our intuition,
or we are defiant champions of our willful stupidity)
into the influence of General Semantics
in my mid-twenties,
and living to question everything
from that point on throughout my life.
Throw it all away
and start over
with what/how you see, think, understand
things to be.
Why do we see the way we do?
Why don't we see the way we do?
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