Endtimewatchman wrote:Jim wrote:This is as far as it goes with the population ... they all watch, no one does a damn thing. This is why, unless something else happens to stop it, they will run right over the top of humanity.
I think our fate is sealed.....the die is cast...and sometimes you don't know what you had till it's gone. And we ain't talking about parking lots either!!!
The entire picture (and I mean the ENTIRE picture) can all be boiled down to one single problem ... incorrect thinking. But here's the problem with that explanation as people don't realize what thinking is for us, and what they are thinking WITH (yes, WITH). Ask anyone - do you have a brain? And they will all say the same thing: Yes. Well - there's your problem, because actually you don't have ONE brain, you have three (yeah yeah, I know ... just go with it lol) - and each is more primative, as you go down the scale, than the one before it. These 3 evolved brains act together, and it's supposed to be that the NeoCortex runs the show ... but that isn't happening. It isn't happening because no one is aware of the fact that there are lessor evolved brains in the mix. Their influence can just POP UP in the picture and screw up everything.
I love the cookie monster example myself.
Although it is true that we have one brain, there are certain parts of our brain that have their own “motives” and this can cause extreme conflict. We all like to think that our neo-cortex is in control all the time, however it can often get “hijacked” by the other brain structures. So while your neo-cortex might be telling you not to eat that cookie, your reptilian brain is shouting at you to eat it because it is afraid that the cookie won’t be available to eat tomorrow or anytime soon in the future. Plus it also knows that the cookie is high in fat and sugar, which is in essence, brain food. Then your emotional brain whispers to you and expresses how delicious it will taste. All in all it’s a losing combination for your neo-cortex.
Now if we take that idea one step further, how screwed up does it get when we are dealing with data? The 3 "different agenda" brains (the neo-cortext or Hal the computer - who should be running the show, and isn't; the mammilian brain; and the R-complex brain, work their approaches to ANY given picture in life, and because we are unaware that they are even there, we succumb to their two cents worth. Like the simple idea of the "cookie" above, what if we had hard data that shows a particular belief picture was wrong, BUT, the mammilian brain said to you: No, that isn't right because it doesn't FEEL right. How many times have you heard that, or, said it yourself?
Previous to MacLean's work it was assumed that the neocortex dominates the limbic and the reptilian brains. This assumption is annulled by the finding that the mental functions of the neo-cortex can be hijacked by the functions of the other two brain layers. The result is a new working model or paradigm with regards to the study of human behavior and the learning process.
Then too, there is familiar GLP cartoon FEAR approach, which boils down to nothing more than another hijacking of HAL the neocortex, when, for example, it has hard data that says: The Aliens will land at midnight! At this point, in SOME people's brain-mix, the picture is one of total fear, the primitive R-Complex fight or flight instinct instantly kicks in, and we get the familiar 
The study regarding the triune brain is something that people are going to have to do, because if we don't, we will (and really have been all along) fall victim to every thought that enters our heads. This picture is really no different than constantly driving your car in the pitch black darkness, without headlights, because you didn't know the auto manufacturer had PUT headlights on your car.
This approach also gets into the topic of sociopathy, and the so-called PTB, because in THAT picture they are MISSING an important part of the triune-brain mix that incorporates "feelings" and "caring" for other people. If they are drawing from the reptilian / R-Complex brain, then a picture that includes ideas like primitive self-preservation will dominate.
Functions related to the instinctive behavior patterns of self-preservation include 'primitive' behaviors ... responsible for automatic behaviors associated with territoriality, ritualism, social dominance, status maintenance, deception, tendency to follow precedent, awe for authority, social pecking order behavior, compulsiveness, prejudice and resistance to change... rigid, obsessive, compulsive, and paranoid. The functioning of the R-complex is activated when the organism perceives threat and the needs for survival and safety predominates.
Ummm ... I think we need to wake up, because if we don't - oh well.
"...men are not so far from the truth as they generally believe. Their greatest error is in searching for it where it is not, and in attaching it to forms; whereas, they ought, on the contrary, to avoid form in order to dwell upon the essence." Fabre D'Olivet
Rather than STOP and say, 'Woops! I'm headed in the wrong direction,’ we tend to place a premium on projecting a consistent image of ourselves and try to rationalize our initial decision despite increasing evidence suggesting we ought to do the contrary. B M Staw
… many people today don't want honest answers insofar as 'honest’ means 'unpleasant’ or 'disturbing.’ They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. — Louis Kronenberger
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. — Francis Bacon
"How to teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly." ... "The easy thing is to commit the whole community to the devil and retire again into the heavenly rock dwelling, close the door, and make it fast." — Joseph Campbell
