Where did you get your toolbox? Your MIND is your toolbox.

by Terry 15 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  tec

  How do you trust the new mind any more than the old mind? What makes you (or anyone) think that you are wired any differently than before... rather than that you just chose different things to put your faith into?

  Taking something someone else said as fact, without fully investigating it on your own is not a good idea, I agree. Its a pretty good way to be fooled. But a lot of people investigate and question and still arrive at different conclusions. What makes one right over another?

  Well, nothing, imo. Unless a person has some inside knowledge, the rest of us are just doing the best we can... but most of us are just guessing, just with different sources of information, and placing different levels of validity on the sources we do draw upon and question.

  We all live in glass houses, and none of us should be throwing stones.

  Peace,

  Tammy
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  Paralipomenon

  I really do try to be open to any possibility or viewpoint.

  In a biography of Albert Einstein, it was remarked that almost all the great breakthroughs in physics occured in people that were under the age of 40. Upon reflection, it wasn't the mental capacity past 40 that made new breakthroughs difficult, but the mind's willingness to continue challenging what you already considered "facts".

  In my personal reflections I think humans are very much herd creatures. For the most part, we follow in the footsteps of those that went in front of us. The accepted trend is we start out a student and keep learning until the point where we feel we have enough knowledge to teach the students younger than us. I think that is the trap. At whatever age, the point we stop being students ourselves is where it gets harder to keep challenging and learning. We focus more on teaching and refining what we know. The more we teach and refine, the more difficult it becomes to challenge it and break new ground.
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  jaguarbass

  I made my own toolbox.

  I was in my 30's, I escaped the tower at 31, I was raised in the tower from one year old.

  When I escaped the cult I was a mess, somewhat of a hypocondriac, and I thought money was evil.

  I had an uncle who was an entertainer, hypnotist.

  He told me about Jose Silva and the Silva mind control method.

  This was about 83, it was not the information age so I picked up a book and a tape program

  and I hypnotized myself daly and rebuilt my tool box.

  I called it rebuilding my engine.

  I took a tape recorder and a 30 minute tape, the first five minutes of the tape, brought me to the Theta brain state

  4-7 hz. When I reached this wave pattern, I reprogramed myself on the tape with positive affirmations

  of what I wanted to be, ie healthy, confident, wise, a money magnet, successful, good father, long life, stay out of way

  of moving objects, etc.

  It served me well for 28 years, the self hypnosis, which I call the Silva system, I used to even get dental work, fillings done

  with out novacane.

  Thanks for the topic, I'm thinking I need to update and remodel certain aspects of my toolbox/ engine for the new millenium.
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  Terry

  How do you trust the new mind any more than the old mind? What makes you (or anyone) think that you are wired any differently than before... rather than that you just chose different things to put your faith into?

  How do you go from being a bad cook to a great chef? You have to apply yourself.

  It takes training and awareness. It takes tasting and testing what you taste.

  The skill set for thinking is specific.

  1.Vocabulary is highly important. The more specificity you have in your definitions the more finely calibrated are your thoughts.

  Otherwise, generality pervades everything you think and say. "That's cool" is one way of giving approval. But, it is so bereft of detail one can only wonder what the depth and breadth of that evaluation amount to.

  2.Conceptual awareness is highly necessary. Concepts are mental "folders" where we maintain primary facts about reality.

  Subsumed inside these folders we microscopically analyze the specific details. Example: EXISTENCE, IDENTITY, CONSCIOUSNESS would be clearly and cognitively delineated as axioms. Without a clear and comprehensive conceptual foundation our ideas are clotted with murky generality and imprecision.

  3.Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. Connecting foundational primaries with consequent conclusions requires a chain of connectives; none of which can violate the other in terms of reality.

  4.Reason: taking our perceptions from our senses and abstracting into concepts while applying logic to our conclusions keeps us connected to reality.

  You have to WANT to get closer to a working, efficient mind with clarity of thought. It won't happen automatically.

  You have to build in means of testing your conclusions to avoid inaccuracy and illogic. It takes practice and rigorous self-honesty.

  That is the only way I know of to answer your question.
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  Perry

  What event would disprove what I know? That is the key question!

  Are you saying that it is impossible to know anything absolutely? What about your memory of your last trip to the grocery store? You know you were there. Got the bannanas to prove it. What event could disprove that? How do you know you where there?
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  Terry

  Are you saying that it is impossible to know anything absolutely?

  No. I would never say that.