Do you eat up what the the news media spoons out? Do you believe partisan dribble that comes from both parties and eagerly believe which ever one you belong to?
I challenge you the next time you hear some news story to consult the original source. Often times you will be left wondering how the news reports can be so different from what actually happened.
Do you know more about pop culture than the your city council? Do you know the words by heart to all your favorite songs? A tough mind and a tender heart can heal our community, but only if we actually practice it.
Read the whole thing.....
http://stanford.io/1nhM82G
"No one can doubt that this toughness of mind is one of man’s greatest needs. So few people ever achieve it. All too many are content with the soft mind. It is a rarity indeed to find men willing to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers, and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than the idea of having to think. This prevalent tendency to lean toward soft mindedness is found in man’s unbelievable gullibility. Take our attitude toward advertisements. We can be so easily lead to purchase a product because a television or radio advertisement pronounces it better than any other. Advertisers have long since learned that most people are soft minded, and they capitalize on this susceptibility with skillful and effective slogans. This undue gullibility is also seen in the tendency of all too many readers to accept the printed word of the press as final truth. Very few people realize that even our authentic channels of information, the press, the platform and the pulpit, in many instances, do not give us Objective and unbiased truth."
"Soft mindedness has often invaded the ranks of religion. This is why religion has all too often closed its eyes to new discoveries of truth. Through edicts, inquisitions and excommunications, the church has attempted to {prorogue) truth and place an impenetrable stone wall in the path of the truth-seeker. So,
many new truths, from the findings of Capernicus and Galileo to the Darwinian theory of evolution, have been rejected by the church with dogmatic passion.* The historical {philological] criticism of the Bible is looked upon by the soft minded as a blasphemous act, and reason is often looked upon as the exercise of a corrupt faculty which has no place in religion. The soft minds have re-written the Beatitudes to read “Blessed are the pure in ignorance for they shall see God ’" MLK
I challenge you the next time you hear some news story to consult the original source. Often times you will be left wondering how the news reports can be so different from what actually happened.
Do you know more about pop culture than the your city council? Do you know the words by heart to all your favorite songs? A tough mind and a tender heart can heal our community, but only if we actually practice it.
Read the whole thing.....
http://stanford.io/1nhM82G
"No one can doubt that this toughness of mind is one of man’s greatest needs. So few people ever achieve it. All too many are content with the soft mind. It is a rarity indeed to find men willing to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers, and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than the idea of having to think. This prevalent tendency to lean toward soft mindedness is found in man’s unbelievable gullibility. Take our attitude toward advertisements. We can be so easily lead to purchase a product because a television or radio advertisement pronounces it better than any other. Advertisers have long since learned that most people are soft minded, and they capitalize on this susceptibility with skillful and effective slogans. This undue gullibility is also seen in the tendency of all too many readers to accept the printed word of the press as final truth. Very few people realize that even our authentic channels of information, the press, the platform and the pulpit, in many instances, do not give us Objective and unbiased truth."
"Soft mindedness has often invaded the ranks of religion. This is why religion has all too often closed its eyes to new discoveries of truth. Through edicts, inquisitions and excommunications, the church has attempted to {prorogue) truth and place an impenetrable stone wall in the path of the truth-seeker. So,
many new truths, from the findings of Capernicus and Galileo to the Darwinian theory of evolution, have been rejected by the church with dogmatic passion.* The historical {philological] criticism of the Bible is looked upon by the soft minded as a blasphemous act, and reason is often looked upon as the exercise of a corrupt faculty which has no place in religion. The soft minds have re-written the Beatitudes to read “Blessed are the pure in ignorance for they shall see God ’" MLK
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