04 Feb 09
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#4. Simple creedo forged daily in the forehead of an open mind...
#3. While I'm in a reflective mood, affectionately remembering Trent, here's a piece of advice he presumed to give me once on our drive
with our wives to a Saturday night rodeo in TX... "Whenever anybody complains or criticizes you to your face or gives you any deserved or
undeserved crap, all you need to say is 'Good feedback'." Worst self prote utlandish hats. Evelyn said, "It's her flair and mark of incorrectness". I bought it.
QUANTUM LEAP
Prefer the pain
of knowing
to the pleasures
of ignorance,
the risk of being
right to every
temporal security
of being wrong.
Awesome concept,
raw faith alone.
Pascal wagered.
Einstein understood.
-Boston, 1980
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04 Feb 09
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#5. Telltale signs of a closed mind: (A) Subjective preoccupation with self; (B) Maximum rejection of authority; (C) Uninterested in learning
#4. Simple creedo forged daily in the forehead of an open mind...
QUANTUM LEAP
Prefer the pain
of knowing
to the pleasures
of ignorance,
the risk of being
right to every
temporal security
of being wrong.
Awesome concept,
raw faith alone.
Pascal wagered.
Einstein understood.
-Boston, 1980
..................................
and therefore unteachable. Expressions of hypersensitivity to self and insensitivity to others include: I am very important; I already know it
all; I'm boss, so don't tell me what to think or do; viewing others as threats; putting them down to build your own happiness on their misery.
05 Feb 09
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyBump for Hand.
#5. Telltale signs of a closed mind: (A) Subjective preoccupation with self; (B) Maximum rejection of authority; (C) Uninterested in learning
and therefore unteachable. Expressions of hypersensitivity to self and insensitivity to others include: I am very important; I already know it
all; I'm boss, so don't tell me what to think or do; viewing others as threats; putting them down to build your own happiness on their misery.
05 Feb 09
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#6. Open/Closed Mind Litmus:
#5. Telltale signs of a closed mind: (A) Subjective preoccupation with self; (B) Maximum rejection of authority; (C) Uninterested in learning
and therefore unteachable. Expressions of hypersensitivity to self and insensitivity to others include: I am very important; I already know it
all; I'm boss, so don't tell me what to think or do; viewing others as threats; putting them down to build your own happiness on their misery.
(A) Though it's a challenge at times I generally take people as they are, with an attitude of 'live and let live' and 'to each his (her) own'.
(B) It's my daily mission to save the village from those with canoes hewn from different wood, whose loin cloths are of a different style.
Result goes here __.
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05 Feb 09
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#7. Open/Closed Mind Advanced Litmus: (A) Do you give thanks when people reject you, because they're finally coming out from behind their
#6. Open/Closed Mind Litmus:
(A) Though it's a challenge at times I generally take people as they are, with an attitude of 'live and let live' and 'to each his (her) own'.
(B) It's my daily mission to save the village from those with canoes hewn from different wood, whose loin cloths are of a different style.
Result goes here __.
😀
forum masks and curtains of hypocrisy to be brutally honest with you, or (B) Do you react, vibrate emotionally out of outrage like a hurt flower?
Result goes here ___.
😀
06 Feb 09
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYour zipper, your fly, your pants.
Open Versus Closed
No, nothing whatsoever to do with chess game opening variations but everything to do with the six to seven inches between your ears, which
your brain still calls home. Closed minds are eventually subject to the onset and ravages of strong delusion. It's a common condition caused
by rejection of reality. The results incl ...[text shortened]... y viable happy life alternative is the gradual enlightenment of an open mind.
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Open vs closed, I think if we take a vote the concensus would be, closed.
OPA!
06 Feb 09
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#8. Open/Closed Mind Final Litmus: (A) Obeys the law and follows the rules. (B) Creates his or her own code of morality. Result goes here ___.
#7. Open/Closed Mind Advanced Litmus: (A) Do you give thanks when people reject you, because they're finally coming out from behind their
forum masks and curtains of hypocrisy to be brutally honest with you, or (B) Do you react, vibrate emotionally out of outrage like a hurt flower?
Result goes here ___.
😀
06 Feb 09
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#9. The tangible benefits of living out your entire lifetime with a closed mind are not many but few, but these few are apparently more than
#8. Open/Closed Mind Final Litmus: (A) Obeys the law and follows the rules. (B) Creates his or her own code of morality. Result goes here ___.
enough. They include: (A) No effort whatsoever expended growing out of traumatic childhood experiences or getting past disillusionments
and disappointments of teenage years. (B) No need to reject any false information or cultural bias brainwashing foisted upon you early on.
You have the absolute freedom to hold all that stuff close, fingering it to death to your heart's content. (C) You're conveniently set free and
able to walk away from the most challenging and painful facet of the learning process... unlearning. Never was easy for the mind to let go.
06 Feb 09
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby#10. Conclusion:
#9. The tangible benefits of living out your entire lifetime with a closed mind are not many but few, but these few are apparently more than
enough. They include: (A) No effort whatsoever expended growing out of traumatic childhood experiences or getting past disillusionments
and disappointments of teenage years. (B) No need to reject any false i nd painful facet of the learning process... unlearning. Never was easy for the mind to let go.
All the truth concerning ultimate reality, regarding anything and everything under the sun, was out there before we were born and will still be
out there long after we're gone... to be apprehended, understood, assimilated. Open mind has a shot. Closed mind rejects it before the fact.
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