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Dennis Collins
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1974
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 06:59 pm: |   |
In the book that I'll be reviewing this month, a guy is explaining how he rationalized feeling sorry for himself and I really liked the way he put it. Check it out.
"Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive."
Dennis Collins
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www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1791
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 11:41 pm: | |
Thank you, Dennis, for shraring an astute insight. The excerpt reminds me of a famous line from Rabindranath Tagore: "We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
http://www.dunganbooks.com/alex.htm |
Bill Nelson
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2125
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:04 am: | |
That reminds me, what is Ted Kennedy doing these days? |
Fred Dungan
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1794
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 01:03 pm: | |
He's rather affable. Ask him to buy you a drink. After 4 or 5 cervezas, he loves to sing "Jalisco." This man has talent. We are talking American Idol. The audio clip is fabulous. It is well worth whatever you have to pay for it (the Kennedy family has gone to great lengths to suppress it).
http://www.fdungan.com/bushwhacked.htm |
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