The Idea Emporium
Now exposing stupid opinions. Now unveiling politically correct logical fallacies, misguided concepts that are modern misconceptions, misguided loyalty to misguided beliefs and unfounded opinions, to rather misguided faith in illogical non-thinking and logical fallacies.
Plus, exploring causes of some current illogical poor thinking. The Idea Emporium - concept forum, debunker of logical fallacies.

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IDEA * EVALUATION * CONCLUSION * INSIGHT * COMMENTARY * CONTROVERSY * INTELLECTUAL CONFLICTS *
CONFLICTING VERSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS * DIFFICULT AREAS * THEORY * THEORIZING * FEMINIST THEORIES *
PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORIES * ENVORINMENTAL CONCERNS * UNDERSTANDINGS * COMPLEXITIES *
EXPLORATION OF LOGICAL FALLACIES, MISGUIDED CONCEPTS, MISGUIDED FAITH IN MISGUIDED BELIEFS *
ANALYSIS OF MISGUIDED LOYALTY TO UNFOUNDED OPINIONS
AND OF A RATHER MISGUIDED WAR ON CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS *
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Stupid Opinion One: All opinions are equal.
Believed by many - ardently, rigidly.
But it means racism is as good as anti-racism.
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More logical fallicies debunked by logical inquiry.
Click here for Unfounded Opinion #2: That We Are All Where We Are Meant To Be.

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The Idea Emporium - logical inquiry vs stupid opinion, and more

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.
But how does one check them? What qualifies as proof, as evidence?

And why, so often, is evidence of no interest to people? We have masses of evidence of how good many people are
at denying evidence when it goes against what they believe. Millions have denied, and continue to deny
the equality of women and men, of Jews and nonJews, of atheists and Muslims, gays and heterosexuals.
People are incredible experts at denying reality - what is seen, experienced. Of course we need to interpret reality -
we do not know it "pure" but through our limited senses, our limited memory, our limited ability to perceive and
make sense of the amazing array of information that does gets perceived.

Still, it boggles the even slightly rational mind - how can so many people be so utterly blind to, let's say,
findings about nutrition? It amazed me to find out, when I was growing up, that there was evidence
for the health benefits of whole grains over refined products - because masses of people stuck with white flour,
white rice, white sugar. How could they be so closed to evidence? Somehow they had a wall against the evidence.

Stupid opinions are some of the things that I find hard to take - especially those often rigidly held by those in places
where one is supposedly able to think freely. So why do so many people, about so many things, evidently not think at all,
hold to logical fallicies - including examples of logical fallacies such as,
the only opinion that is not okayis the opinion that all opinions are not equal.
Instead of creative critical thinking, truth-driven thinking and logical inquiry,
one comes up again rigidly held misguided concepts.
One has come up against current taboos: thou must not judge,
who am I to judge, who are we to say other people's values are not as good as ours,
all religions are the same, even if the evidence shows that they have very different beliefs and values.

And the walls come tumbling down - at some point they do. Galileo and Copernicus eventually prevail
over those who hold that the earth is the center of the universe.

We will see when the current walls protecting current logic fallacies crumble to dust,
leaving everyone astounded that anyone could ever have believed such misguided concepts.

Elsa
December 9, 2007

copyright © Elsa Schieder 2007
publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions 2007

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Good thinking and analysis. Logic plus emotion.
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Plus stupid opinions exposed.

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IDEA * EVALUATION * CONCLUSION * INSIGHT * COMMENTARY * CONTROVERSY * INTELLECTUAL CONFLICTS *
CONFLICTING VERSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS * DIFFICULT AREAS * OPINION * WELL-REASONED OPINION *
UNFOUNDED OPINION * STUPID OPINION * THEORY * THEORIZING * FEMINIST THEORIES *
PERCEPTION * PERCEPTIONS * PERSPECTIVES * PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORIES *
ENVORINMENTAL CONCERNS * ANALYSIS * DISCOVERING UNDERLYING CAUSES * AMBIVALENCES *
AMBIGUITIES * FEAR OF AND RAGE AGAINST IDEAS * FEAR OF EXPRESSING IDEAS *
ANTI-THINKING TORRORISM * ANTI-INTELLECTUAL TERRORISM * FALLACIES * FLAWED REASONING *
THE RAGE AGAINST UNWANTED IDEAS * THE RAGE AGAINST UNWANTED VISONS OF REALITY *
BLINKERS AGAINST PERCEPTION * BARRIERS TO THINKING * BARRIERS TO REASONING *
INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION * STIMULATING IDEAS * FERTILE THOUGHT *
VIEWPOINTS * UNDERSTANDINGS * COMPLEXITIES * UNCERTAINTIES * GUESSES * HUNCHES *
FACTS * GUT FEELINGS ABOUT THINGS * EXPLORING IDEAS * EXPLORATIONS OF IDEAS *
EXPERIMENTS TO VERIFY IDEAS * REALITIES * REASONING * IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS *
LOGICAL INQUIRY VS STUPID OPINION * TRUTH-DRIVEN THINKING VS LOGIC FALLACY *
CREATIVE CRITICAL THINKING VS MNISGUIDED CONCEPTS *
CRITICAL SKILL THINKING VS STUPID OPINION * CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION VS STUPID OPINION
GOOD THINKING VS POOR THINKING

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