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RE: Rejecting Reality? Maybe You're Engaging in Cognitive Dissonance!

in #belief8 years ago

I've found it's best to ask, "Why?" Like "Why do people still believe the lies?" Is it cognitive dissonance? Is it confirmation bias? Is it belief perseverance?

["Beliefs can survive potent logical or empirical challenges. They can survive and even be bolstered by evidence that most uncommitted observers would agree logically demands some weakening of such beliefs. They can even survive the total destruction of their original evidential bases."] - Lee Ross and Craig Anderson.

So how can one counteract that? It seems that no matter how much effort one invests their time and attention in attempting to encourage others to open their own minds to the possibility that they could be wrong...in the end it probably still won't have any effect....and even worse, have the opposite effect. The struggle is real, my friend. I can attest to that. I can't begin to tell you how many times I felt like giving up and giving in. I take breaks, but I can't stop all together.
Larken Rose comes up with some good analogies to explain how ridiculous moral relativism is. Speaking of Larken, I can't wait for "The Mirror" to hit the web. I think it will be great for people to witness their own inconsistent thought processes.
I'm pretty sure most people want to be correct when they speak and take action...it's just they've been misled since they could walk and talk.....as well as their parents, and their parents before them.
The social engineers of past and present have improved upon the human slavery condition to the point of it being almost unrecognizable.
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a great parable that I'm sure you're familiar with. A somewhat simplistic explanation of how it actually is.
I'll always care to share there's no fear in love with truth. Thanks for not giving up and giving in. Peace!

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"the opposite effect"
Yes, the backfire effect. Hehehe.

https://steemit.com/consciousness/@krnel/reality-vs-perception-reality-processing

Well Larken himself is attached to his way of life, and how things have been done, and doesn't face some realities of morality unfortunately, yet Mark Passio does. BUt I'm sure it will be good overall anyways.

Thanks for supporting my work. Take care. Peace.

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