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THE EXPLORATIONS
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about the explorer

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ANIMAL RIGHTS,
AN INNER VOICE,
GAMBLING IMPULSE,
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Bush, McCain, Palin -
Armed & Dangerous

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New! Paranormal
or Para-nutty?
proof of life after death
or wishful thinking
Sept 2008  MORE   ALL

Political Correctness
and Fundamentalism

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Gambling -
Great? Gruesome?

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How To Think -
Tip Number One -
Ask This One Question

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Walls in the Mind,
They Cripple and Bind

inner walls, inner blocks -
invisible from within,
frustrating for outsiders
Jan 2007   MORE   ALL

Don't Keep it Simple -
Keep it Alive

mental challenge is
the thrill of a lifetime -
or, the kiss of death
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Animal Rights -
from an Inner Voice

a childhood inner NO
to a god who prefers
the one who kills animals
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Whose Dog Is It?
pets, ownership, slavery
Dec 2006   MORE  ALL

The Rottweiler Pope,
The Danish Cartoon
and Muslim Moderates

the pope's remarks
and the Danish cartoon -
help or hindrance?
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

Mirror, Mirror,
Who is that Horror?

on the rage of the
righteous when coming
across mirrors
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A Dangerous
Temptation -

Counter-Prejudice

the lure of hating back
and hurting back
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

Bush the "Righteous"
his shell -
harder than stone -
illusions, delusions, lies
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

The Pope Speaks
outraged Muslims protest,
kill nun, demand apology -
more rage of the
so-called righteous

Sept 2006  MORE   ALL

Give Peace a Chance
- by giving empathy
a chance
An Open Letter to
All People, and
for now, especially
all Muslims
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Feb/Aug 2006   MORE


The Rage
of the"Righteous"

on Muslim outrage
at a Danish cartoon
Feb/July 2006   MORE


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This Is Not Me
but it's a tempting
disguise due to the
"righteous"
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Stupid
Opinions


#1
the opinion that
all opinions are equal
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#2
the opinion that you are
where you are
meant to be
Aug 2006   MORE

Breaking the Spell
of Stupid Opinions

rule #1 - don't start by
calling it a stupid opinion

stupid opinion #3
that everything happens
for a reason
Aug 2006 MORE

stupid opinion #4
that everyone always did
the best they could -
an opinion voiced most
often about parents
who did lousy parenting

stupid opinion #5
that we shouldn't
be judgmental

stupid opinion #6
that all religions are
basically the same

stupid opinion #7
that all cultures are equal


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The West and Islam

MY JOURNEY
from the start
to the present

Steps & Stages

Muslims,
a Danish Cartoon,
and Me ...
The Beginning

The Exploration
Continues

Muslim Outrage
meets Western
Political Correctness -
toxic Western tolerance

Western Blocks -
The Enemy Within

tolerance of intolerance,
all opinions are equal,
lack of critical thinking -
how much is a veneer
for fear?

The Muslim Religion -
A Religion of Peace?

Exploration of
Evidence -
and a question:
why the insistence,
among the evidence
of Muslim violence
and the lack of general
censure of the violence

The Role of
Muslim Moderates
Muslims for peace,
Muslims against terrorism
- call to action

Still More
Explorations

The Rottweiler Pope,
A Dangerous Temptation,
and more

An Ongoing Barrier
- Fear

a core part
of terrorism

The Hope
Give Peace
a Chance

What Do I Want? -
Perception,
Critical Thinking,
and ...?
and a core quality -
blocked easily
in humans -
easy to stop
its formation

Overview -
All the Steps,
Stages,
Idea Pieces

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EXPLORATIONS


Explorations
- starting with
a look at anger


The Rage of the
"Righteous"

on Muslim outrage
at a Danish cartoon
Feb/July 2006   MORE

Mirror, Mirror,
Who is that Horror?

on the rage of the
righteous when coming
across mirrors
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

Political
Correctness
and
Fundamentalism

Jan 2008  MORE   ALL

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More Explorations
- Western tolerance
and other blocks
to good thinking

Stupid Opinion #1
the opinion that
all opinions are equal
Aug 2006    MORE

Walls in the Mind,
They Cripple and Bind

inner walls, inner blocks -
invisible from within,
frustrating for outsiders
Jan 2007   MORE   ALL

How To Think -
Tip Number One -
Ask This One Question

Apr 2007   MORE   ALL

The Ingredients
of Good Thinking

Apr 2007  MORE   ALL

Breaking the Spell
of Stupid Opinions

rule #1 - don't start by
calling it a stupid opinion

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Urgently Needed
Information

Is Islam a Religion
of Peace?

turning to sources
Muslims, Islam,
Koran, Reality
sources - people
who know Islam
from the inside,
and dare to reveal
what they know
March 2008     ALL

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More Thinking
re Islam,
Muslim
Moderates,
and more

The Pope Speaks
outraged Muslims protest,
kill nun, demand apology -
more rage of the
so-called righteous
Sept 2006  MORE   ALL

The Rottweiler Pope,
The Danish Cartoon
and Muslim Moderates

the pope's remarks
and the Danish cartoon -
help or hindrance?
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

A Dangerous
Temptation -

Counter-Prejudice

the lure of hating back
and hurting back
Sept 2006  MORE  ALL

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The Hope

Give Peace
a Chance

- by giving empathy
a chance
An Open Letter to
All People, and
for now, especially
all Muslims
-
Feb/Aug 2006
MORE      ALL

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About
the Explorer

Elsa's Quest:
to explore

Elsa Asks
a Final Question:
What is
Islamophobia?

This Is Not Me
but it's a tempting
disguise due to the
"righteous"
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The Rage-Hate Shell
Block-Out-All-Evidence-
Cut-Off-All-Empathy

so ordinary, so human,
so dangerous

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Murder-Suicides

more rage-hate shells
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Seeing Others
actually seeing them

Strengths and
Dangers of
Rights Movements
(race, gender,
sexual orientation,
religion, nation)

Ideas about
The Idea Emporium

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If you bring forth
what is within you,
what is within you
will save you.
If you do not bring
forth what is within
you, what is within
you will destroy you.

from the gospel of
Thomas (part of the
gnostic gospels).
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CLEAR THINKING, GOOD THINKING
3 QUICK BENEFITS
and 5 GREAT OUTCOMES

ELSA,
a.k.a.

DR ZEE, BRAIN TRAINER.
Clear Thinking Trainer.
More than a critical thinking tool
vs every stupid opinion.
Critical thinking creative thinking.
Good thinking. Mental workout.
DR ZEE, BRAIN TRAINER.

Dr Zee -
because I like thinking things through, A to Z

In our society, people get help
from experts on everything
from how to floss their teeth,
to how to balance their budgets,
to how to improve their relationships.

But when it comes to thinking, most people go:
"Don't tell me what to think."
"I know what I think."
"My opinion is as good as yours."
"All opinions are equal."
"Who are you to tell me what is right?"

This is never a serious question.
The person is often growling,
ready to pounce, as if on an evil mouse
intruding into cat territory.

The same people usually wouldn't think
of responding like that
to a dental hygienist showing them
how best to brush their teeth;
a ski instructor trying to get them
down the hill safely;
a nutritionist pointing out the benefits
of eating vegetables.

What can The Idea Emporium's Dr Zee
offer those in search of thinking excellence?

What are the benefits of a mental workout
instead of the quick retort,
"Don't dare question my thinking!!!"

HERE ARE
3 QUICK BENEFITS
and
5 GREAT OUTCOMES.

 

BENEFITS

1 - Validation
If you often get shot down
when you try to express ideas
outside what is considered correct,
you may find validation and back-up
at The Idea Emporium.

If people often use quick cut-off tactics on you,
but you're not convinced,
The Idea Emporium has the tools
to help you figure out if your ideas
make logical sense of not..

At The Idea Emporium,
with Dr Zee,
Brain Trainer,
Clear Thinking Trainer,
you'll be in good company -
in the company of people who want to think well,
who like to flex their mental muscles,
and who want to work by good thinking
rather than quick judgments
based on no evidence, no logic, no reasoning -
just an automatic cut-off.

2 - A Sure Route out of  Confusion

If you sometimes aren’t sure who is thinking well,
and who is not,
if you don't know how to figure out
which opinion is right or if your opinion is right,
then The Idea Emporium is the place for you,
and Dr Zee, Brain Trainer, is the person for you -
mental muscle coach, idea enhancer.

Dr Zee has no interest
in telling you what to think.
The interest:
how to think,
so that one has a way out of confusion.

3 - Tools and Techniques
for Better Thinking

Just as some ways of brushing teeth
are better than others,
some ways of thinking use better tools
and bring better results.

Dr Zee, Brain Trainer, mental muscle enhancer,
clear thinking trainer, thinking coach,
provides the workout tools and techniques –
yours to keep forever,
yours to expand on and develop,
yours to make you a Clear Thinking Expert.

 

FABULOUS OUTCOMES 

1 - Spot Stupid Opinions

 Even if you can't stop their hold on someone else,
you can block their hold on you.

2 - Do Great Thinking

Critical thinking creative thinking,
analysis, evaluation.

No more 98-pound mental weaklings.
Defend your opinions with the power
of evidence and logic.

Why bother?
Why not just go with what we believe?

To do less 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)


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

It's a big and complex world out there.
The better we can think,
the more we can make sense of it.


3 - Enjoy  the Pleasure of Thinking Well

 Like the pleasure of doing a sport well,
or dancing well, or cooking well,
there's good thinking –
a pleasure some people have no idea about.
Discovery!


4 - Validation

If you already think well,
you may benefit from the validation.
Yes, your thinking makes sense!
And with validation - also known as mirroring -
often we go further than ever before.


5 - Progress,
Ever More Creative Thinking

 The more we have validation, the further we can go.
It pushes us onward -
like a tennis lesson
when we're already a good player,
like taking a course or playing with people
who push us further.

ELSA,
a.k.a.
DR ZEE,
BRAIN TRAINER

Clear Thinking Trainer,
Mental Workout Coach,
Thinking Expert,
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"It is a fact readily acknowledged,
that for humans,
an idea is much more powerful
than a fact."

 

WHEN I HEARD THAT, I HAD A EUREKA MOMENT.
YES, I HAD SEEN THAT SO OFTEN.

SOME OF US ALREADY LOVE GOOD THINKING.

BUT GOOD THINKING IS POSSIBLE
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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.

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QUESTION:
CAN ONE LEARN
HOW TO THINK?
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EXPLORATION: DANGEROUS USES
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
                             MORE
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EXPLORATION:
DANGERS
OF TOLERANCE,
OF ACCEPTENCE
OF ALL OTHERS
AND
THEIR CUSTOMS -
included in
                             MORE
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GENERAL
DANGER:

ACCEPTING
IDEAS
INSTEAD OF
THINKING
THEM THROUGH
included in
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TOP TWO
NON-SECRET
INGREDIENTS
OF
GOOD THINKING

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EXPLORATIONS:

WHOSE DOG
IS IT ANYWAY? -
ON PETS,
OWNERSHIP,
AND SLAVERY
                             MORE

GOOD
GAMBLING
vs
BAD
GAMBLING
                             MORE

THE
ROTTWEILER
POPE,
THE DANISH
CARTOON,
AD MUSLIM
MODERATES
                             MORE

ANIMAL
RIGHTS -
AGE 7,
I TAKE ON GOD,
KNOW
HE IS WRONG
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CAN ONE LEARN
HOW TO THINK?
                             MORE
                             MORE

EXPLORATION: DANGEROUS USES
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
                             MORE
                             MORE

EXPLORATION:
DANGERS
OF TOLERANCE,
OF ACCEPTENCE
OF ALL OTHERS
AND
THEIR CUSTOMS -
included in
                             MORE
                             MORE

A GENERAL
DANGER:

ACCEPTING
IDEAS
INSTEAD OF
THINKING
THEM THROUGH
included in
                             MORE

TOP TWO
NON-SECRET
INGREDIENTS
OF
GOOD THINKING

                             MORE

MORE
EXPLORATIONS:

WHOSE DOG
IS IT ANYWAY? -
ON PETS,
OWNERSHIP,
AND SLAVERY

                             MORE

GOOD
GAMBLING
vs
BAD
GAMBLING

                             MORE

THE
ROTTWEILER
POPE,
THE DANISH
CARTOON,
AD MUSLIM
MODERATES

                             MORE

ANIMAL
RIGHTS -
AGE 7,
I TAKE ON GOD,
KNOW
HE IS WRONG

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