The Passionate Mind Revisited
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thinking that rejects other thinking
What is thinking that rejects other thinking? › It's important to be able to broadly recognize what memep… › > If we are either agreeing or disagreeing, then we're no…
- Joel & Diana have a bunch of stuff on this in The Guru Papers and maybe even moreso in the first chapter of The Passionate Mind Revisited
- > If we are either agreeing or disagreeing, then we're not listening, for to listen there must be an openness, an innocence, a temporary suspending of judgment and the familiar, so that the fresh can possibly come in.
- then ch2 (which is Belief)
- > Since closed beliefs are counter to survival in a rapidly changing, dangerous world, let's not initially ask if a belief is right or wrong, good or bad, life-furthering or -destroying, constructive or destructive, but rather just what it means to have closed beliefs that do not change with changing times or changing evidence.
- (here I perhaps diverge somewhat from them, in that I think the issue isn't times or evidence at all)
- > Beliefs that are fixed and unchangeable not only often result in violence, but they can trigger a potential state of internal violence
- > Is defense that different from attack?
- (oh shit, damn, they hit protectiveness is damage control)
- huh, they also seem to think that "knowing something firsthand" doesn't cause closed beliefs, but that seems patently false and emotional flashbacks are a very obvious example of that!