We all have many, many, many, many MISCONCEPTIONS

by Terry 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  Most of what we think we know consists of wrong information that we allowed to come in to our head.

  We weren't on guard. We weren't thinking critically. OR, we trusted the source and simply accepted the wrong thing.

  A great deal of our misconceptions come from genuine authorities like our PARENTS:) Who are crammed full of untrue ideas they learned from equally

  clueless authorities such as movies, novels, fables, legends, word-of-mouth and......TEACHERS in school!

  I thought it would be interesting if I posted a link to an article in Wiki about COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS and have you visit the page and scan down the long, long list.

  After you read the page come back to this page and POST HOW MANY MISCONCEPTIONS YOU DISCOVERED that you thought were true.

  Okay?

  Here is the link:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
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  talesin

  Excellent! Just the thread title alone ... and this is true for ALL people. (including myself in this, of course)

  It's part of life's journey - deconstructing the misconceptions we have learned, whether from our parents, or our culture. I would rather not 'know' the answer, than believe a lie.

  tal
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  Knowsnothing

  There are too many for me to say, Terry. I like that Nero's name was cleared, this is even promulgated by an early WT (methinks, here we go with those misconceptions again), that he set fire to Rome and blamed it on the Christians.
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  Phizzy

  I think I AM a Misconception, I know my mother was most surprised to find out she was pregnant with me, I have been the bane of her life ever since !
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  rebel8

  Very interesting Wiki article.

  Another one--lots of unsubstantiated claims about Betsy Ross...her involvement with the flag was not mentioned until about 100 years after her death, when her grandson presented the story to an historical society.
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  Terry

  That Napoleon was 5' 7" comes as a shock to me.

  If you read through the list, paragraph by paragraph, it makes you dizzy with the idea that what the world IS and WAS inside of our mind may be

  as much as 90% full of shit!

  It makes my head spin!

  Good point about Nero and the Society publication's repeat of that canard.
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  Mall Cop

  Nice one Terry! You always get us thinking! I have a shirt, a black one with a squre box in the center. It reads,"Think, it is not illegal yet" I like to wear it when we go out. People see it, I don't know what effect it has on them.

  You, however, have an effect on all of us here on the site with your Topic Post's that are so very educational. I'm not stroking you, I enjoy all your topics even though I might not respond to some of them.

  I knew about the one on religion, Christianity, Islam etc.

  Blueblades/ Mall Cop
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  Farkel

  Terry,

  : If you read through the list, paragraph by paragraph, it makes you dizzy with the idea that what the world IS and WAS inside of our mind may be as much as 90% full of shit!

  Yeah, but that's because we only use 7% of our actual brain power.

  Oh, wait! That canard is a pile of shit, too!

  Farkel
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  Terry

  I find that when I learn I'm wrong about something I've previously believed I talk about it for awhile to other people.

  Then, times passes.

  Guess what--I will end up saying the same WRONG thing when it comes up again AS THOUGH I'd never learned otherwise!

  Then, a person will hear me that I'd previously informed--and NAIL ME on the spot like the backslidin' knuckle-dragger I am!

  Is this just cognitive dissonance at work. Or, am I an old dog unable to perform even one small new trick??
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  darth frosty

  Reminds me of the sentiment in Napoleon hill's outwitting the devil.