jim jonesTo wrap up this series of blogs from yesterday (like a Libra, nicely with a bow) the point of all these posts was to show how important it is to think.

- A gal writes a psych profile on me based on one piece of misinformation and looks a fool (in my eyes).

- A generation of parents is punished for causing mental illness in their children they did not cause all because some guy with charisma proclaims himself a genius.

- A psychologist films a psychopath telling lie after lie after lie and presents as truth.

In contrast, Lonnie Athens studied violent criminals and thought critically about the data he gathered. He fact checked the stories for example, imagine that!

This gave him good clean data with which to draw his conclusions which have not been challenged or disproved since. The reason is because they are real.

Compare to guy who claimed the parents caused their kids to become autistic due their neglect. Did he ever produce an autistic who was cured by hugging? Even one? He did not! But to this day, parents are impacted.

We are living in an age where people can communicate like never before. It is so easy to put misinformation out there and make it look real so if you do not want to be a total victim of this, you have got to tax yourself.

You seriously (Saturn) have got to work to think (Virgo) and if you won’t bother, take the time, make the investment, you are going to wind up oppressed due your own stupidity.

If you want an example of this, think of Jim Jones. All those people decided to let him think for them and they wound up dead by Kool-aid. I can’t be any clearer. Guard your mind.


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5 Responses to “Wrap Up Of The Flurry Of Posts Re: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves aka The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Turn Over To Another Person”

1.
Crackers
Crackers

Excellent stuff! I’ve gotten a lot out of these posts. Thank you for going to the outer rim, because I can’t (won’t?), but I do need the info. I know you like it there ;-) , but you didn’t have to share, so thanks.

Devising some good tests seems like a key to mind-guarding, as well as just a healthy skepticism.

 
2.
wyrdling
wyrdling

at least in the one room schoolhouses students had a better chance to learn critical thinking. farmers have to solve complex problems. someone running a press in a factory doesn’t necessarily have to… industrial teaching has caused similar effects, i think. there’s some great teachers out there. amazing ones. but for some reason i end up with so many students who only want worksheets and regurgitation and actively resist complex decisionmaking. they want me to tell them the answers.
i think they’re afraid of being wrong. too much focus on right answers, not enough on good thinking skills. in real life right answers are a lot more complicated.

how does one teach students to not trust authority implicitly? to recognize the need to come to their own conclusions?
i think, at least with a lot of mine… they just had more important things to worry about than school. you can only focus on so many problems at once.

anyway, it’s frustrating. and sad….

 
3.
DreamsAreality
DreamsAreality

Let’s hear it for the Socratic teaching method being rejuvenated!

 
4.
DreamsAreality
DreamsAreality

A nice link about the Socratic Method…

http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

What happened to teaching Logic in schools?

 
5.
wyrdling
wyrdling

socratic teaching is part of best practices nowadays. but institutional change can be extraordinarily slow, it can be difficult to do in large groups and, well… students who are used to fill and drill often resist it.

there are a lot of people trying really creative things nowadays, though. one definite benefit of no child left behind is the explosion of charter schools trying creative methods of teaching. (i’m making no comment on the law as a whole.)

 


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