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Kiffah
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 Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity
#8408638 - 05/16/08 08:53 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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It's just a side effect of the inquisitive jumping to conclusions. Sure, it's embarrassing to think 2+2=5, but that same mechanism of imitation is how we learn.
Not much more to say
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In times of universal deceit, the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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 redgreenvines
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Re: Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8408711 - 05/16/08 09:27 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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temporary suspension of disbelief is very liberating.
you get to try on some things that you never thought might fit.
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Veritas
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Re: Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8408725 - 05/16/08 09:30 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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I think of gullibility as a lack of curiosity. When one is truly curious, one continues to investigate rather than accepting things at face value. 
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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Kiffah
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Re: Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8408883 - 05/16/08 10:31 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Like I said, the two are very closely related. Like exercise and rest. You can't exercise all the time without deleterious effects, and you can't be curious all the time, without being an annoying prick/going mad.
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In times of universal deceit, the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Oweyervishice
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Re: Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity [Re: redgreenvines]
#8410845 - 05/16/08 08:21 PM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Quote:
redgreenvines said:
temporary suspension of disbelief is very liberating.
you get to try on some things that you never thought might fit.
Sometimes once you put it on, you like it so much that it is no longer temporary. You can get stuck in a whole new mental outfit.
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SyntheticMInd
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Re: Gullibillity is the different side of the same coin as curiosity [Re: Oweyervishice]
#8411117 - 05/16/08 09:57 PM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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I don't do drugs, I am drugs
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
- Salvador Dalí
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