Open mindedness Part#1

It seems to be an extremly common experience amognst people who dont believe in certain non-scientific concepts to be told by others who do to be more open-minded. this advice is typically based on highly flawed thinking, including an inaccurate understanding of what open-mindedness is. Infact being open minded means simply means willing to consider new ideas. Science promotes and thrives on open-mindedness, because the advancement of our understanding about reality in which we exist depends upon our willingness to consider new ideas. Indeed scientific discovery often requires entirely new ways of thinking. However, not only does believing in certain non-scientific concepts not automaticlly make you open minded, it can often lead you to be the complete opposite. A friend of mine once noticed a moving lamp shade in my room and said it was a ghost. When i told him it wasn’t. He said “you got the evidence infront of you & that i was stubbornly close minded and had no curiosity”. When he finished his little outburst, I reached down and switched off this lamp heater, underneath the lamp to stop its warm heater from moving the shade. It was actually my friend who had no curiousity in this situation. He lead to an immediate conclusion and dismissed all alternatives. When you label an event as supernatural, just because it has no explaniation obvious to you. You will inevitably misinterpret evidence and make invalid causal connections. You will eliminate a whole realm of alternative explaniations, before its even clear which explaniations might be appropiate and that’s the very definition of CLOSE-MINDEDNESS.

People who tell others to be more open minded about so called “supernatural” concepts, often accompany this advice with one or more personal anecdotes they claim it can’t be explained. This is another flawed approach. Even if your experience can’t be explained, that in no way strengthens the case for any supernatural concept. All it shows is that your experience can’t be explained. Trying to suggest that a lack of explaniation is evidence that supernatural powers are at work, is actually a contradiction. Infact what you are saying is that ‘I can’t explain something Hence I can explain it’. The unexplained is just that: Unexplained. Furthermore, although its quite reasonable to describe an experience and tell peopl you can’t explain it. Telling your audience they can’t explain it is senseless, becuase your audience has no independent access to the event you described nor any way of investigating which details you missed or edited out.

If – Rudyard KiplingShare

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

The perfect mate

So today I decided to talk about women from my own race. Most of them tend to believe that blonde haired, blue eyed man is the key to success in terms of measuring it up against Men from other races. Well it’s true but very sad. Let me give you an example, I met up with this girl (lets call her Airhead). So this Airhead met me for the first time and because she tends to be socially delinquent she projects her own insecuirities in a form of social mask by acting like a “bitch”. So I threw a joke inorder for her to move to the comfort zone and she blocked it out with a “bitchy” reply. I blew it off even though now really paying attention to what has been mumbled, but it struck an interest in me. I went back home and that Airhead calls me up and talks to me about random things. The kind oooooooooof things that will kill your brain cells slowly, but as an act of interest and deception the words “I see” played a big role for the continuation of her ridiculing herself in order to be “accepted”. As days passed she would tell me about how she prefers the white race over my own people and interestingly enough I knew that girl had a “crush” on me. But she would like to grab my attention and divert it in forms of psychological replenishment to re-establish the continous occurance of jibberish talk thats looking for the green light that i apparently hold in her world. Sad but true and its annoying to keep up with that form of human existance. suicide I suggest is the path she should be taking. Her existance holds no value but to her own parents.

PS: in the future … I hope not to meet more of this kind …