What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 11, 2021 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2021 at 5:45 pm by SlowCalculations.)
I have been thinking lately when it comes to how people become rational thinkers. It seems that some people are born questioning everything
and it never really goes away it may be repressed, but doesn't leave allowing them to eventually escape. Then there are some people who seem to not have that spark of curiosity. Here's a short story that brought this thought to my mind: I was a person who questioned even when I was superstitious, I always doubted my own beliefs and it led me to atheism and rationality on its own. But I had a friend who if you gave her a fake video of a ghost and it's obvious it's being done by another person she'll believe it. It doesn't even have to be a ghost either it could be a simple as a fake cooking video and she'll believe it. Questioning to her was always "Overthinking" and if you were overthinking it led to suffering. She wasn't a person who went to church very often but her family was religious and very harmful. I got older and wiser and as much as I tried to help her turn the perspective around she never changed. While I was moving forward she chose to stay behind no matter how much logic or reason was given. It was never enough. Sometimes it was willing ignorance other times it was just ignorance. I never figured it out or learned to wrap my head around it. Why is it some people even from a young age just refuse to think for themselves?
Even when they're not caught up in church-going?
and it never really goes away it may be repressed, but doesn't leave allowing them to eventually escape. Then there are some people who seem to not have that spark of curiosity. Here's a short story that brought this thought to my mind: I was a person who questioned even when I was superstitious, I always doubted my own beliefs and it led me to atheism and rationality on its own. But I had a friend who if you gave her a fake video of a ghost and it's obvious it's being done by another person she'll believe it. It doesn't even have to be a ghost either it could be a simple as a fake cooking video and she'll believe it. Questioning to her was always "Overthinking" and if you were overthinking it led to suffering. She wasn't a person who went to church very often but her family was religious and very harmful. I got older and wiser and as much as I tried to help her turn the perspective around she never changed. While I was moving forward she chose to stay behind no matter how much logic or reason was given. It was never enough. Sometimes it was willing ignorance other times it was just ignorance. I never figured it out or learned to wrap my head around it. Why is it some people even from a young age just refuse to think for themselves?
Even when they're not caught up in church-going?
