let us try this…
we know that people have perceived notions…
notions that some, SOME, people take as an absolute…
now some of those notions include this idea of god…
these people will concede almost every other notion but
this one… that there is a god in heaven…
it doesn’t matter what evidence that is presented before them…
they will not budge from their idea that there is a god…
now one who holds this opinion is certainly allowed to hold this
opinion… but these people approach events and experiences with
this notion of there being a god…every event and experience they
have doesn’t begin with the event or experiences, it begin with the
notion that there is a god… and they bring that notion into experiences
and events… they see experiences and events through the
belief of there being a god… they place meaning/purpose
first, then they see the event/experiences…they filter
events and experiences with the pre-knowledge of god…
in other words, any possible gain in knowledge from those
events/experiences are lost because one has already determined
that god is already existing in that event…
you reached the conclusion before the event/experience…
if the person has reached the conclusions before the event, any lessons
that might be learned is lost… if you have determined a conclusion…
then the event/experience doesn’t really matter because you will already have the
conclusion…
this observation bias, as science calls it, is a major problem in how we
understand things… to truly understand something, we must not
have preconceived notions…but this leads us to an interesting place…
we are becoming aware…and this is a very good thing… this is one means
of becoming aware is by thinking about our biases… what am I bias about?
yes, I hate young republicans…they are always so smug… but what other biases
do I have? what biases do you have? this is one means of becoming aware…
so how do we approach events/experiences? another question?
are we ourselves, an event/experience? and if so, how do we approach
ourselves? occasionally I must admit, I am surprised by something I did or
didn’t do… how do I understand that experience? are we still in philosophy or
are we in psychology? and is there a difference? if experience is the key aspect
of our lives, then understanding how we experience, experiences,
doesn’t that include how we experience ourselves? if that sounds confusing,
join the club…we certainly do seem to have a blind eye to ourselves in
our reaction to events/experiences…maybe this is why women will
talk endlessly, fucking endlessly about an event/experience…perhaps,
this is some means to gather evidence about how ones approaches
an event/experience, perhaps…
I have noticed, in myself for example, I cannot experience myself within an
environment… I am typing right now… I look about the room… what I am
aware of is me, looking out at the world, not being in the world but being separate from,
apart from the world… I can imagine myself looking at myself because I know what I
look like… I can see me watching myself type at the computer at my kitchen table…
but each new vision is just another perspective… I note in looking up perspective,
I see, just before it in the dictionary, various definitions of personal, personality,
personnel, perhaps the root word of perspective is person… we each have a perspective,
a point of view, my viewpoint of looking at the world…perhaps a perspective is
literally, a point of view from a person’s eyes…and our point of view
does make a difference on how we view an event/experience…
literally, our point of view of what our eyes see, makes a difference on
our perception of an event/experience… instead of writing experience,
I wrote evidence… of an event/evidence…interesting freudian slip…
our perception of an event/experience is about evidence…
what evidence does this event/experience bring us to our knowledge
of the world or our understanding of the world or our biases of the world…
we use evidence of events/experience to bare on our understanding of
how the world works…if the evidence confirms our understanding of
the world, we say yah… I am right… and if the evidence denies our
understanding of the world… we say, that evidence is wrong…
we would do almost anything to maintain our observational bias in our
seeing the world…it is far easier to say the evidence is wrong,
then to admit that we might be wrong…and then we might have to do
something about us being wrong…god forbid we admit we are wrong…
so our experiences of the world is rooted in our own prior understanding of
the world, our observation biases…we take our observation bias into
every event/experience we face… and therein lies our modern problems…
we have failed to learn the lessons of events/ experience because we have
put our observation bias ahead of, before the events/experience…
and so we miss any lessons we might learn from event/experiences…
because we are looking at the event/experience, we are looking at the
observation bias and not at the event/experience…this is why
people will often not learn pretty obvious lessons from events/experiences…
they are fixed on their observation bias instead of seeing what they could learn
from the event/experience…
we can use this to explain some behavior… we see people quite often
vote against their own interest…voting for the GOP is downright stupid
if you are middle class or below… but people still do it, why? I think
reading comments on websites is instructive… people will say, they are glad
that IQ45 is causing liberals to cry in their sleep… anything to vex liberals is
the goal which means it doesn’t matter what IQ45 does as long as it vexes liberals
and that includes treason and crimes against the American people… hay, it vexes
liberals, so it must be alright…the event/experiences of IQ45 is less important
then the perception of people against liberalism… whatever vexes liberals is
the important thing, not the crimes against America or the destruction of America…
those are unimportant because of the fixed hatred of liberals which causes
people to think it doesn’t matter what IQ45 does as long as it vexes liberals…
ever if it means the destruction of America… that is the observational bias
that people carry into this whole matter of IQ45 and the vexing of liberals…
and look at the damage it has created already… and his only win in passing
legislation is a bill that will turn the US into Kansas which is a hellhole…
a bill meant to destroy the middle and working class of America…
this is concrete evidence of what happens when people put their observational
bias ahead of the lessons to be learned from events/experiences…
Kropotkin