BENEFITS of THINKING

1 - Live Fully!

Some people go, Why bother? Waste of time!
It's way too much work, all this thinking.
Much easier just to stay with what we believe.
Let everyone believe whatever they like.

Not to think fully is to live a half life.

As Galileo said long ago,when the church demanded that he deny all the findings showing the earth rotated around the sun:

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Whether there is or isn't a god is up for debate, but the crippling effects of not thinking are all around us. Millions are stuck, saying things like, but who's to say which opinion is better? - as if they had no right to look at evidence and think.

They come to controversial ideas, controversial questions,
have no idea how to with them, except to go,
I know what I think.

Not to know how to think is like living in a wheelchair
when we could walk,
like wearing a blindfold when we could see.

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2 - The Pleasure of Good Thinking

You can call it hitting the Good Thinking G-Spot.
You can call it the Cogni Sutra.
It's the joy of thinking - satisfying, intense, enduring.
A mental workout - at least as good for us as any other exercise.

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3 - Things Make More Sense

Most people are sure they know
what's right and what's wrong.
But without the tools of good thinking, people are lost.
They don't know how to defend their arguments.
They often don't even know if their opinion makes sense.
It just feels right to them.
They're sure - but then, people have been sure
slavery was right. So is their thinking right?

How can one settle controversial issues, controversial questions?

The benefits of thinking, of good critical thinking skills,
are that one doesn't have to rely on feelings.
With clear thinking, one can be on solid ground.

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4 - Stop the Pain of Mental Confusion

There's a lot of pain good thinking can't stop.
But it can stop the pain of mental confusion.

We get so many messages from all sides - and lots of them contradict each other. Arghhhh!

If we care, we may keep on mulling over controversial topics, controversial questions, a whole list of controversial issues.
Yes, many are hard to resolve, no matter how well we think.

But with good thinking, clear thinking, critical thinking,
the power of thinking - with those on our side, it's easier, heading
into the darkness of massive amounts of mixed messages.

We can figure out what makes sense, instead of backing away or taking refuge in lines like, "Who are we to judge?"
If not us, who?

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IN OTHER WORDS, THE TRUE POWER OF THINKING

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One of my lifelong concerns has been trying to make sense of reality. What is happening? Why is this happening? And with that I come to ideas - ideas about reality, ideas that need to be checked against reality, not just believed in like the tooth fairy is accepted by a child.

Issues and controversies - how do we resolve them?

And right there I'm at the benefits of thinking - how to evaluation ideas without knowing how to think? How to do clear thinking, good thinking, critical thinking - if these are just words, rather than things one knows how to do. The power of thinking is only as great as the critical thinking skills of the person doing the thinking. Good thinking? Good grief, one often wants to say about what is presented as clear thinking. But a bit of the power of thinking shows it to be what it is. Bad bad bad thinking, not thinking.

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