How to Think Language - frames thought, - describes things,
Is News Truth ? Learning is our life
Most stay with the herd How do we learn
Language is the key to knowledge
Books Thinking is our reality, it colors our world, it drives our actions. What is your basis of facts ? What is the origin of thought ? Who is your leader ? What news do you test, what do you accept ? ^ - - Language frames thought Say you know a word, cat or car. The word is not the object but a link, to consider the object. You look at the world and see a cat. You say to yourself "There's a cat, I see a cat." With the word and the match, you have the ability to see ( or hear, or perceive ) something, to remember it, and to recall it or tell another. Recognize, remember, recall. A word or symbol is a tool to manipulate an object - or idea in your mind. The word or symbol can be written, oral, a symbol, or gesture, ... You may not know a word, but you learn one. You see or consider a new thing. The name is the operative part Things unnamed, pass our experience, undetected, unnoticed. Things beyond a label, beyond knowledge, beyond recognition Language describes things Language is a set of codes, connecting things, Media is a form of language to convey information thru: film, video, books, articles, sound recordings, photos, speeches, measurements: soil tests, DNA, blood samples, ... Language contains information. It may be encoded in a special language, digital, microfilm, video. When a thing is embraced in language, recorded, described, named, it can be manipulated, considered, shared, tested. Information is not necessarily true or complete. Truth is a super set of knowledge, which has been tested, or proven to be durable, complete, without conflict, comprehensible. Information can be recorded, repeated in news papers, TV, speeches, radio interviews, books, articles and more. Truth is discerned from complete, unbias information. When you have access to diverse information sources; different people, organizations, differ media; radio interviews, books, etc. you get a broader view of an event. To persuade or win a weak argument, exclude important points against your argument. So our world, our thinking, is limited by the information we have. Something seems true, 'til it proves wrong or isn't popular. People speak to honor their thinking, their family, their property. National news is owned by 9 corporations who have an agenda. Consider what news has not told you ? Why ? News - the 4th Estate - basis of truth ? Main stream media is powerful, diverse force to cover most events to most people. They are organized to receive information from diverse locations, then analyses, simplify, and publish conclusios. They save American from much work ! They have the power to be and or interact with diverse people & witnesses. We assume they untangle any inconsistencies and compress to the relevant truth. When you examine national news and find it far different than many local reports, many think local news is inaccurate. When you realize the magnitude & frequency of differences, National news, has for decades become less diverse in ownership. Those who own our military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, banks have bought out the main stream news & press. They repeat or slant their reports to protect or advance their owners. They are no longer the people's voice, the 4th estate, another term for the press. The press must be free to find and publish truth, so the "informed" public can react. News is the basis for our action. If we follow a lie, we take wrong action. Patriot organizations, talk radio, up start and splinter groups are active across America, fighting to publish important truths. Main stream news has long been under the control of a few corporations that specifically limits what news they will repeat. Most people have no interest in controversery, and having been given a simple explanation of things observed, they are not curious to know more deeply. They simply accept the world around them. A path to truth can begin simply. When you find news you've heard simply doesn't make sense, is beyond reason, is outside of the laws of science, does not collaborate with other information, you must abandoned it. News sets our first impression. Who spends time to confirm, investigates. News & education are designed (by the elites who control it) to seal our mind with ideas, so that we are closed for discussion, investigation on most subjects. Education should open our mind with tools for thinking and research. But it closes our mind, filling it with rote facts, rather than open discussion, investigation. see Dumbing Down America ^ - - Learning is our Life From our birth, we learn. We experience new things. Most of what we learn, we accept from those around us. Friends, teachers, news, books fill our mind with information. Tabula rasa, Latin for "blank tablet"; also, John Locke's metaphor for the condition of the mind prior to the imprint of sensory experience. Learning, gaining information & knowledge may come from; - information from others; what they say, what you read - your own perception, sight, sound, ..., or We desire to be compatible and interconnected with people, particularly those we know and deal with. We usually accept what our peers believe. As long as we have the same sources of information, our conclusions will be similar. When you begin to reach outside your friend's circle to new ideas, new speakers, or books, your friends & associates ill rarely follow you. Without considering the information, they cannot reach your conclusions. People want to be liked and connected. For those who search deep for truth, you'll find most people cling to what they know, the security of things around them. It takes tremendous effort to get information to others. Mass media spends incredible funds, presenting & persuading. Who has the energy to counter their loud dominate voice ? Who could prevail ? Truth can prevail. Lies have to be continually repeated. For those who choose a path of truth, you will find you need to seek afresh for those on a similar path. Yes, you can find other truth seekers, but they are rare and dispersed. Your choice is to live in harmony with those with little depth, or curiosity, or to find truth first, and then collect associates who are eon that path. I chose to find truth first, after a lonely period, I now find a world alive with passionate people striving for, sharing and celebrating the truth. How exciting and refreshing. ^ - - Most stay with the herd For 50+ years, I agreed with those surrounding me. In 2005, I stopped to consider what really happened on 9-11. After intensive investigation, I found most I had assumed was just not true, I came to realize my sources for information on all subjects was not complete. I was living in a simplified, superficial world of assumptions. Yes, the assumptions run deep affecting most people. Most people are not curious, they won't consider alternative information. It will not pass their attention, and if it should, they are smug to hang with their friends and shun anything different, any new ideas. Herd mentality requires each person be like others. To most it is more important to fit in, be accepted, then to venture out, thinking and inquiring. Security rules over most of us, as we are taught to be afraid, be loyal to the people and institutions that taught us. until you find we're living in an isolated world, I'd been exempted from great truths not public, not popular not immediately available. Winston Churchill said, "“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.” A lie gets .. around the world before .. truth has a chance ... Now beyond college, professional societies, or great friends and teachers, I encourage people to learn to think and learn to read. A vast, exciting, world awaits you. Truth is the most safe, durable partner to any endeavor or action. It is readily available to any who are curious. Don't be bound to think like other. Be a leader, think independently. Although it may ruffle feathers initially, you will attract bigger people, and endure a more lasting victory. Be a trail blazer. Learn to seek and find the truth ! ^ - - How do we Learn ? What is learning ? Every time we have an experience, we may learn. We deal with the world by recognizing what we know, and describing new things with of old terms of things we already know. Only we we can make a connection between old things and new, can we understand the new. Things beyond our perception, vocabulary, experience are foreign, unreachable to us. But by interpreting, or having them explained, in terms of things we know, we can gain new understanding. So even the new things we discover are only perceivable to us in terms of things we already know. When you are faced with things vastly different that what you know, it is perplexing, beyond your reach. When you find some one or some way to see new events in terms of things you already know, you begin the process of learning, or understanding the new. You can easily investigate thru alternative sources. Once you find that national news is consistently unreliable, you may choose to get your news form alternative sources; American Free Press, foreign newspapers, internet sources. News governs our world. The authorities in power want to increase their power and control. The simplest way to gain power over others, is not by achievement, merit, but by deception. When your subjects have grown comfortable accepting your methods and authority, they lose the will to check and confirm your authority. As we lose the will to investigate our best options, taking time to really understand we fall into world of assumptions. When you assume, you have to option to lose. Most of our world is based on assumption. Those who test these assumptions have an opportunity to out step the deception adn control over them. Assumption What is commonly done, is what most people do. Who will be the first to raise the question, seek relieve, find the truth ? We are taught to hate, fear, cower. Aim our anger and aggressions at foreigners and people outside our ranks, beyond our news, and our government. Where, really, does the fault lie ? Who is the source of the news ? Who owns them ? What is their real agenda ? Beyond our government are corporations; pharmaceuticals, military industrial complex, news media - controlling mainstream thinking. Above them are the owners, controller, bankers that own them. All are working, responding to those who control them. Our illusion is that our government and news are for our protection, when really, they have been bought out by the owners of the news, so that the news, keeps us occupied, entertained, distracted, while the real, deep and important issues are no longer considered or examined. ^ - - Language - the key to knowledge Knowledge is information. It can be recorded in a book, article, movie, or come from another person, or be in your head. Knowledge is not necessarily true, it is just information. When you have or consider information, you or someone may be able to test or check it. Having the information is the beginning, testing it is where it become valuable. Depending on your source, or the situation, sometimes you just accept information, without the time or concern to test it. You may accept information to be true, until it proves wrong (from other information) or from reality, when tested. Much information we simply accept, carry without ever testing, do not consider that it needs testing, yet it colors our world. Information affects what we thin about, our conclusions on the subject, and our response, reaction, actions on the subject. When we hold, share, accept information that is not true, we are driven to actions that are not appropriate. Some information is beyond the consideration of many. Is it entirely, always true, partly true ? Who's checked it ? First impressions tend to stay with us. It takes considerable effort, time, thought, energy to change our first impressions. News has immediate access to locations, events, communications. National news dominates local news. In years past, 1,000s of news owners were more aggressive in catching a story for their readership. Now just 9 corporations dominate most news & main stream thinking. When distant events happen, local news does not even bother to check the source, but merely repeats what national news has said. Nation news can highlight some information, and completely neglect or avoid other information. The public is swayed on first impressions. Few dig deeper for more facts and details. To win an argument, from a weak perspective, the best method is to strike or exclude the primary facts that weigh against you. ^ - - Books on Thinking Double your Brain Power How to Think Like a Genius How to be Twice as Smart
You give it a name, or accept a name from another.
It lets the idea run in and out of your mind.
Without the word, or definition, or recognition,
you cannot deal with the object or idea.
You can only remember or recall what is conscious.
are not available to consciousness.
. ideas & feeling with words or symbols. word = thing
Language can record, remember and recall information.
- is the framework for any thought.
Knowledge is a useful information.News is information from a limited source.
Information or knowledge is not truth.
It may be partial truth, or incomplete, or inaccurate.
Truth is limited to those with access to wide range of unbias, unedited, unrestricted information. Any one who handles information, alters it in what they repeat.
When information challenges things in their life, they adjust their story so not to harm things precious to them.
perhaps local news is true.
Some we remember and their lessons.
Is our world of information complete or true ? Who is tests it ?
- intuition or telepathy, what your subconscious mind feeds you Our thinking, beliefs, are based on the information we have.
To be initiator of new ideas, tests your existing relationships.
They won't follow your new reading, new thinking, new ideas.
Truth should grow feet and expand on it's own.
I came from a well to do family, attended excellent college.
I enjoyed educated colleagues in my profession.
But for those with a real curiosity, there is often a back story,
a reverse story, with more depth, detail, diverse witness, evidence and public records to the unpopular perspective. Why do others not consider alternative information sources ?
Shun anything different from our world.We are smug with our college education, our educated & intelligent friends, our access to national news.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Main stream news closes the eyes of most, seals the mind and opinion. Our education system also repeats the status quo, forcing what our ruling elite want us to think.
Are the things before or about us new ?
What do we know of them ?When you read the news, some event or conclusion may be reached ? Are you curious ? Those who allow the assumptions, make an easy subject for others to bully, deceives, cheat.
You get it from a book, movie, news article, TV, a person.
Most of what we learn, then know, we get from other people. Brain Power The Art of Thinking Your Maximum Mind