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It is only when I stretch my perceptual muscles and disturb my cognitive dissonance that I experience personal growth. Left alone within my mental echo chamber and surrounded by me, myself and I while engulfed in glorious self affirmation and ego saturation, what purpose is served by exercising anything other than the button marked confirmation bias?

But......when deliberately challenged to move well beyond my comfort zone by pushing all sorts of triggers and buttons, essentially to put myself off my mental/emotional feed, all kinds of things, thoughts and understandings can and do 'happen' when I allow them to  penetrate. All it takes is a little courage and the willingness to put aside my faiths and beliefs and take a walk on the wild side.

"On the Beach", a premium member here on TwoIceFloes.com and a long time corespondent of mine, has penned a six-part treatise with the promise of more to come. On the Beach has a lot to say and I for one have found great value in reading his essays.

As I have told several others along the way when contemplating what to them appeared to be disturbing or troubling information, "You do not have to believe what you are reading....but you must seriously consider it." I emphasize 'seriously' because it is only when we open our minds to alternative thoughts and feelings do we activate the growth within.

Please click here to read Essay One: Introduction of "The Antidote".

Cognitive Dissonance

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(Conditioned) Human Nature within the Insane Asylum

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I wish I had a silver dollar for every time I’ve heard the phrase “It is human nature……” or some such derivative or derivation. Alan Greenspan recently popped to the surface of his personal cesspool to proclaim that it is human nature to create financial bubbles, thus absolving himself of any blame for a runaway fiat candy machine. His exact words were “Bubbles are functions of unchangeable human nature.”

I will stifle the urge to flush Greenspan back down the commode where he belongs and instead focus upon the mistaken belief that we can actually determine exactly what is ‘human nature’ after hundreds if not thousands of years of social conditioning and manipulation. Continue reading (Conditioned) Human Nature within the Insane Asylum →

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The Elegant Art of Not Giving a Shit

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Please excuse the vulgarity of this cross posted article, but sometimes a curse word or two is appropriate.

At times Mrs. Cog accuses me of being unemotional and detached. And at times Mrs. Cog is absolutely correct. There are circumstances where I simply do not wish to invest my emotional capital into some thing or some thought that I see as a dead end or chasing my tail. For those inclined to make the investment, oftentimes it comes down to little more than renting space in our mind to others with no compensation or return of principal.

The following article by David Cain of Raptitude.com perfectly expresses my thoughts on the subject. Please take five minutes and check it out. Then pop over to David's website and check him out.

Please click here to read the article.