Looking for Facts

2003-5-5 04:52:00

My Friends,

Interesting dialog on crop circles. I found Diane Linen's post on the subject especially good. We received quite a few posts on the "Avoidance of Thought" topic. Looks like many of you have had to deal with the problem. This avoidance on the part of the emotionally polarized is indeed a trial of the patience of the mental person.

Now let us move on to the next attribute.

The emotional person makes up his mind then looks for facts to support his mindset.

The mental looks for facts and then makes up mind.

Assignment: Contemplate this distinction as a seed thought and tell us how you see it playing out.

Example:

The emotional person, because of religious teachings, may have a mindset that the universe is between 6,000-10,000 years old. He then only looks for facts that will verify this belief. The amazing thing is that he seems to find quite a few.

On the other hand, the mental person begins his search with an open mind realizing that all he has been taught could be wrong. He gathers facts and then draws his conclusion based on the evidence and not upon dogma or preconceived notions.

Upon taking this approach the mental person will normally conclude the earth and universe is billions of years old, a far different conclusion than the emotional person who leans upon dogma.

Because of this, do not conclude that all scientists take the mental approach. Some have an emotional attachment to their pet theories. The standard Big Bang is one many cling to with emotional attachment. According to this, the Big Bang happened around 13.5 billion years ago. I found it interesting that when the Hubble Telescope observed galaxies around 21 billion years old that many scientists swept this discovery under the rug and did not let it disturb their belief system.

There are emotional and mentally polarized in all avenues of thought. See if you can discover how they manifest this attribute.