Quote from: RE on Feb 03, 2024, 06:20 AMQuote from: K-Dog on Feb 02, 2024, 11:07 PMWe face a huge challenge but already know many solutions
We do? I must have missed them. If somebody tried to inoculate me with a statement like this, I'd ask them to fill me in on the solutions we already know. Besides, if we know them, why aren't they being implemented? It's not a solution if you don't actually do it.
I think this is like hypnosis. You can only be hypnotized if you want to be hypnotized. I have never been able to be hypnotized. When the hypnotist tells me "You are getting sleepy", in my head I don't agree with him. I'm not sleepy at all. Why would I believe somebody telling me that I am sleepy?
The problem here is most people want to be hypnotized.
RE
Many people of balanced mind and congenial activity scarcely know what others think of them, and will
deny, perhaps with indignation, that such care is an important factor in what they are and do.
But this is illusion. If failure or disgrace arrives, if one suddenly finds that the faces of men show coldness or
contempt instead of the kindliness and deference that he is used to, he will perceive from the shock,
the fear, the sense of being outcast and helpless, that he was living in the minds of others without
knowing it, just as we daily walk the solid ground without thinking how it bears us up.
QuoteThe problem here is most people want to be hypnotized.
Colored lights can hypnotize. Sparkle in someone else's eyes.