onlychild Keyholder for Area 51
Number of posts : 1020 Age : 74 Location : Texas Registration date : 2009-10-15
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free wheel CE 3
Number of posts : 338 Location : UK Registration date : 2009-09-06
| Subject: Re: REVEALED... Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:08 pm | |
| Does it matter if we all get wiped out ?
FW . | |
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onlychild Keyholder for Area 51
Number of posts : 1020 Age : 74 Location : Texas Registration date : 2009-10-15
| Subject: Re: REVEALED... Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:29 pm | |
| - free wheel wrote:
- Does it matter if we all get wiped out ?
FW . I would see it as sad ... but that would be something only each person could answer regarding themselves. What's more important - your ego or your life? | |
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free wheel CE 3
Number of posts : 338 Location : UK Registration date : 2009-09-06
| Subject: Re: REVEALED... Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:35 pm | |
| Never really thought about the Ego word much Onlychild . Why would that be of any importance at all ?
Cheers FW , | |
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onlychild Keyholder for Area 51
Number of posts : 1020 Age : 74 Location : Texas Registration date : 2009-10-15
| Subject: Re: REVEALED... Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:25 pm | |
| - free wheel wrote:
- Never really thought about the Ego word much Onlychild . Why would that be of any importance at all ?
I think this sums it up well enough:
Individuals shape their world through their perceptions. Once they have created this world, they resist changing it. [They] selectively process information in order to keep their perceptions intact. They hear what they want to hear. They ignore information that challenges the world they've created. — Stephen P Robbins, Essentials of Organizational Behavior (6th ed.), 1999
[People] simply disregard pertinent evidence in order to see what they expect to see and believe what they expect to believe. People subtly and carefully 'massage’ the evidence to make it consistent with their expectations. — Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, 1991
All of that can be summed up by the line in my signature file below:
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon
If, when presented with a contrary idea we fail to even consider the fact we MAY just be wrong, that is ego.
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free wheel CE 3
Number of posts : 338 Location : UK Registration date : 2009-09-06
| Subject: Re: REVEALED... Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:35 pm | |
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- If, when presented with a contrary idea we fail to even consider the fact we MAY just be wrong, that is ego.
That is interesting Onlychild . Could you be wrong though ? FW . | |
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onlychild Keyholder for Area 51
Number of posts : 1020 Age : 74 Location : Texas Registration date : 2009-10-15
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