(05-21-2014, 05:16 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I've never been one to accept the "you are just an organism driven by your DNA/Id/instincts" at face value. It seems to be at least broadly over generalized. I do subscribe to the notion that subconsciously people rise or fall to the societal expectations of them. Hence, the subconscious motivation to strive, or to sandbag.
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The same argument can be made for their analysis of climate change skeptics.
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TL;DR -- Naw, I don't think this is decidedly so, but it's the rare rat that bothers to traverse the maze.
How ironic we could read the exact same post, have a similar opinion about the topic, yet still have such vastly opposed opinions on certain related topics.
While reading the OP, I was pondering just how closed-minded religious fanatics are who can't see the forest through the trees, despite all the "proof" I've throw out at them which unequivocally proves the Judeo-Christian bible is man-made using nothing but their own sacred texts (at its worst), and nothing more than political propaganda used to support various leaders ideologies using actual history books (at its best). I've long ago come to the conclusion that the real truth is most religious fanatics don't want to read the proof and when it becomes unavoidably undeniable, they simply brush it off as fringe ideology or refuse to educate themselves entirely regardless of their education.
Through my very frustrating experiences, I've found there is almost no way to change someones belief structure, rather religion, global warming, or vaccinations, unless THEY BELIEVE THEY'RE THE ONE WHO CAME UP WITH THE IDEA THEMSELVES! That is the real crux of this argument Bolty made rather he realizes it or not, that for people to change their opinions, they can't be told what to believe, but have to believe they were the ones who came up with the idea themselves, an inception they not only have to realize for themselves, but believe they came to this conclusion through superior reasoning that others couldn't have possibly known because they just figured it out for themselves. Sometimes I hate how ignorant people choose to be, however its easy to see how professors and world-renowned scientists can get swept up into such cults and ideologies so easily because after all, it is the human condition after all.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin