Changing your thinking for the better ...

[Rawze]

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(Not directed towards anyone, but making a blanket statement in general. Just making a point here for reference ) ...

Some words on dis-belief ... Some words on "But what i have been doing works out just fine for me" ...

- I have seen my share of people in the past who would swear that the lead pipes and lead-based paint in their homes never caused them any harm. They see no point in taking heed of how bad it can be for them by any of these so-called 'lilly-nilly-nay-sayers' ... (all while suffering the symptoms of its effects unknowingly).

- (or the opposite scenario) I have seen lots of folks who will swear that a 'carp' fish or 'drum' fish is poisonous (which is obviously not poisonous) when standing out on the fishing-pier at the local fresh water lake.. will stand there and swear to you that you would be poisoned by it if you try to cook one and eat it. ... All while the 3 poor-people at the edge of the pier ask for every one of them caught so they can take em home help feed their children at home instead of everyone throwing them back in the water.

- I have seen plenty of people who swore that the asbestos-based paint and ceiling tiles at the office they worked at for the past 10+ years every day never caused them any harm. See no point in listening to the statistics, because it has not effected them yet (as 3 of their retired friends suffer from lung cancer/Mesothelioma ). Why should they worry, those people trying to warn them and raise those red flags must be simply crazy.

- I have seen my share of people who will swear that adding slic-50 to their engine oil actually helped it last longer .. all while the maker of the product is being sued in court by the thousands of others that clearly show, with hard evidence, it severely harmed their engines.

- I have seen plenty of people who swear those big-name bad deletes and delete companies were the best thing they did to their ISX engines, because they have not seen any of the failures that people claim on their own equipment... so it must be OK, right? (all while 70+% of all the other engines those companies butcher suffer 75% less engine lifespan with repeated failures). Why should they believe anyone else... seems to have worked out for them.. (not knowing they are one of the few who has simply skated the known disaster due to statistics alone).

- I have seen plenty of people who swear they believe in the communist movement that is trying to take over our country ... they swear it is for the good of everyone .. they truly believe in their cause ... all while being completely racist, rioting and destroying others lives, they feel they are doing a good thing by bullying others in public for no good reason except their own brainwashed agenda, etc... and cannot see the irony in what they do whatsoever.... Try telling them how harmful it makes them look, and how bad it is to bully others into that one-sided narrative and they will just get mad instead of seeing the truth... that they are simply a puppet of a higher power who has manipulated them into this stupidity, but trying to show them this light and how ironically bad it is,... and they will fight against you tooth and nail over it.

- There are people who genuinely believe that the earth is flat ... some even going as far as killing themselves in home-made rockets just to prove their point. Try to tell them the truth and they only get mad at you and defensive, just like someone with bad deelte programming and horrible mods they had someone do to their engine will. Those big-name companies and the tens of thousands of $$$ they spent must be the way to go... otherwise, why would it be so expensive? - (self-denial is the worst to overcome of them all I think).

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Why do people often strongly believe in things that are clearly against the statistics that everyone else, who now knows better tries to tell them about?... or is just flat-out wrong? (pun intended).

What drives them to believe and swear in things that obviously have no merits in logic? -- Because that is in fact what many people often times do ... They believe in what they themselves have only seen, and refuse the truth of what they might actually be facing.

One problem is the issue of time. How long someone has gotten away with driving their engine on that bad delete program ... or gotten away with working in that office building full of cancer-causing asbestos ... They will even get mad and defensive towards other people for even considering to them that what they are doing is harmful, or downright wrong. - This is how people often are... but it does not justify their stubbornness in their actions.

Here is a quote I came up with a long time ago about trucking...

Rawze Wrote:I equate that way of thinking to someone trying to get from A to B as fast as they can, -- pushing their truck as hard as it will go along the muddy road. They are trying with all their might to get somewhere, spinning tires and not getting very far, frustrated as all hell, driving all day in that mud, it holding them back and slowing them down. ---- All while getting mad and ignoring everyone around them trying to help them, calling them fools who can't possibly understand their situation. - They simply refuse to look around and see that the road they are driving on is in fact the ditch along side the freeway.