I do what I can to equip myself to choose my battles wisely… yet attempting to change someone’s firmly held point of view is most often an exercise in pushing mud uphill. Rarely have I seen an intelligent person switch to a wiser position… when presented with a reasoned, well thought out view that takes things into consideration that they hadn’t perhaps considered before forming their firmly held view. The hubris and arrogant walls of the intelligent are nigh on impossible to breach. When I have rarely encountered a change of view on anything it has always been grounded in one amazing Godly quality… humility.
Indeed, I always have to remind myself that it's a waste of time, and that the fool's reaction will produce even more time-wasting if I keep interacting.
It's a difficult situation to be in when judging someone a fool. Up until 2017, I too, would have been called a fool. The psychological psy-ops of the propaganda machine that operates in every sphere of our lives, from childhood onwards, is a powerful machine, and breaking one's mind free from that machine is a long march into one's mind.
It was Christian podcasts back in the day that planted the seed of the mass psychological warfare that humanity was under, and its the same today, a select few Christian men, shining the torch of truth for us to see. Let it be our actions too that the fool may see, as well as our words.
I do what I can to equip myself to choose my battles wisely… yet attempting to change someone’s firmly held point of view is most often an exercise in pushing mud uphill. Rarely have I seen an intelligent person switch to a wiser position… when presented with a reasoned, well thought out view that takes things into consideration that they hadn’t perhaps considered before forming their firmly held view. The hubris and arrogant walls of the intelligent are nigh on impossible to breach. When I have rarely encountered a change of view on anything it has always been grounded in one amazing Godly quality… humility.
Yep… and social media magnifies the fool even more! Not worth having correcting the fools that abound but difficult to resist.
Indeed, I always have to remind myself that it's a waste of time, and that the fool's reaction will produce even more time-wasting if I keep interacting.
It's a difficult situation to be in when judging someone a fool. Up until 2017, I too, would have been called a fool. The psychological psy-ops of the propaganda machine that operates in every sphere of our lives, from childhood onwards, is a powerful machine, and breaking one's mind free from that machine is a long march into one's mind.
It was Christian podcasts back in the day that planted the seed of the mass psychological warfare that humanity was under, and its the same today, a select few Christian men, shining the torch of truth for us to see. Let it be our actions too that the fool may see, as well as our words.
A wise article none the less Reverend.