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- From: "John F. Navratil" <jfn@phoenix.net>
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- Subject: Re: RETORT TO RIGHT-WING FASCIST FUCK: (ALERT) NAZI BASTARDS CLOSE TO VICTORY
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 18:07:13 -0800
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- Roberta Gill wrote:
- >
- > .... It is dogmatic thinking, whether
- > right *or* left, which inspires these suppressions of freedom.
- >
- > Yrs.
- >
- > Neil McEwan
-
- Hear! Hear!
-
- ( I apologize for the following because I don't wish to denigrate your
- message and the truth it conveys. This is not a nit, just a springboard
- to the next thought. )
-
- There can be no dogmatic thinking. Thinking involves the application of
- principles and knowledge to the facts at hand and deriving conclusions.
- This is work! People want to be "lite" thinkers. All of us do. We read
- news, we don't travel to Bosnia to observe it. We have to be filters.
- So how does the thinker know he is thinking? By challenging his or her
- assumptions and conclusions at every step, rejection previous conclusions
- and *constantly* rederiving the conclusions. While I "know" I am right,
- I must listen to anothers argument assuming it is more right than mine.
-
- We are all neural-nets in training mode. When we get out of training
- mode we are dogmatic.
-
- -- John
-
- BTW. Profanity is the linguistic crutch of the ignorant Mo.... Fu.....
-