99.99% of life is unconscious...!!

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[img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]..if there were one thing that i would bring up regarding David's preoccupation with logical thinking, and importance of using super-intelligent people to make key decisions. The simple fact is : no one lives their life that way; we blindly go thru life reliving trauma; and using primitive defence mechanisms to defeat this onslaught of extreme pain and anxiety from becoming conscious. one of these defence mechanisms is over-intellectualization..

jmho

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"Reason" is a disease.

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"Reason" is a disease.

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Good thing most posters are vaccinated.

[purnell]

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LOL. I differ, and instead say that reason is a tool. Some folks have developed alot of skill at using it, but unless that skill comes at the expense of their intuition and imagination, it's not harmful, IMO.

[JonPKibble]

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"Reason" is a disease.

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Which means that soon Big Pharma will be offering a drug you can take to "cure" this "disease"!

The question is, will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

Reason-

The means by which the social organism enslaves the individual. Initially intended as a tool, it has instead become an inescapable snare.


Will-

The means by which one escapes the organism is by tapping their will, or creative imagination.



It is through will, not reason, that one shapes his circumstances to his advantage.

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It is my belief that "reason" or “rational thought” is nothing more than a meaningless cosmetic, and that our subconscious fears and desires are the real driving force behind our actions and circumstances.

“Rational thought” is entirely subjective anyway. You’d be hard-pressed to find two equally intelligent people that thought the other was entirely rational.

[David Sklansky]

You just have me figured wrong. Reason is simply a tool to help you achieve your own goals most efficintly. Whether those goals are reasonable or not.

[benkahuna]

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[img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]..if there were one thing that i would bring up regarding David's preoccupation with logical thinking, and importance of using super-intelligent people to make key decisions. The simple fact is : no one lives their life that way; we blindly go thru life reliving trauma; and using primitive defence mechanisms to defeat this onslaught of extreme pain and anxiety from becoming conscious. one of these defence mechanisms is over-intellectualization..

jmho

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Given the right brain excision (usually as a result of some physical trauma), one can have the ability to allow emotions to influence decision-making removed. Such people have incredible difficulty living life because they find themselves unable to engage in arbitrary decision-making. Antonio Damasio's book Descartes' Error goes into some detail about this situation. These people are, fortunately, rare.

I think you mean some or most people go blindly through life hoping to avoid repeat traumas or denying them. There are certainly some people that handle their traumas a little more directly instead of living lives of avoidance and denial.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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Good thing most posters are vaccinated.

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ROFL

[scalf]

[img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] who is smarter: nhl hockey fans or keno players???

now this deserves truly high iq input...

tia

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