On Sep 15, 12:22Â pm, "Sean"
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> On Sep 14, 12:14 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 13, 5:53 pm, "bigflet...@
gmail.com"
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>>> Ever noticed how often the answer to a 'deep' question comes from the
>>> least unexpected source?
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>>> I wonder how many apples had to fall on Newtons head before he started
>>> to wake up?
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>>> Perhaps there is something magical about the apple tree after all, but
>>> you have to take a good bite into the fruit of the 'tree of
>>> knowledge', otherwise life is just a series of unfulfilled
>>> hypotheticals.
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>>> BOfL
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>> ...confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new
>> information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids
>> information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs.
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> Which is why 'open mindedness' is a condition of individual growth.
> Knowing that we are individually expanding in awareness, such events
> are welcomed to challenge past beliefs, o limited knowledge.
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> Im sure Newton didnt hav a prior view regarding apples. My experience
> confirms that if the first apple doesnt get your attention, the second
> one will and so on.
> The more one recognises the law of synchronicity (as opposed to an
> interpretation of such law), the easier it is to open up to the
> meaning of such events. This hardly happens when entrenched beliefs
> are involved.We even know neurologically that we can only acknowledge
> what we do not deny.
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>> It is
>> a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive
>> inference, or as a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the
>> hypothesis under study or disconfirmation of an alternative
>> hypothesis.
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> YOu are talking generally of the scientific mind. Im referring to
> spiritual growth.
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>> Fundamental attribution error is the tendency for people to over-
>> emphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in
>> others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational
>> influences on the same behavior.
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> Which is why I mentioned the first apple example.
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> BOfL
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> One wise Apple said to his son Apple Jr ... now be careful. If you get into
> the hard stuff, the Apple Cider, you're likely to go all pear shaped.
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I know. I heard about Jonothan from his Granny Smith.
Runs in the family.
She became very grumpy form far too much scrumpy
Twas the cider inside'er
That made me deride'er.
So I chose a pink lady,
(Even she's turning shady).
"What day job".... hummmphhhhh
BOfL
