{"id":6350,"date":"2015-03-09T05:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2015-03-09T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:52:32","slug":"the-death-of-hope-and-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"THE DEATH OF HOPE AND BELIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twoicefloes.com\/the-death-of-hope-and-belief\/#more-11736\" target=\"_blank\">THE DEATH OF HOPE AND BELIEF<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As much as we would like to \u2018<em>believe<\/em>\u2019 we are all clear headed, logical individuals who only deal with verified \u2018<em>facts<\/em>\u2019 while shunning hearsay, rumor, \u2018<em>hope<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>belief<\/em>\u2019, the reality is to some degree or another we integrate all of the above, and so much more, into our personal cognitive operating system. The tendency when reading such a statement is to immediately emotionally trigger, become annoyed or even angry, and then listen to that soothing inner egoic voice as it assures us we are not the one Cog is looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether we attribute this cognitive juxtaposition to raging ego, genetic predisposition, normalcy bias, cultural conditioning or simply denial, critical thinking, if ever truly deployed, is often limited to those times when we \u2018<em>believe<\/em>\u2019 it is in our best interest to think outside the box. But even then, our effort is severely limited by the tendency to hold on tightly to the comforting handrails when venturing into foreign territory.<span id=\"more-11736\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, hope is just the ugly stepchild of belief, interchangeable and indistinguishable, especially during periods of high emotional stress and cognitive fight or flight. Naval gazing, pretty much all we see when engaging in hope and belief, is the ultimate human blinder and the chains that bind.<\/p>\n<p>Once we accept something as \u2018<em>true<\/em>\u2019, essentially a non specific condition arrived at with minimal critical thinking and even less logical reasoning, rarely if ever do we revisit the subject to check our premises. And why would we since we \u2018<em>believe<\/em>\u2019 what we want and not what is actually there. Since the only unchanging \u2018<em>truth<\/em>\u2019 throughout the universe is that change is constant, \u2018<em>We the People\u2019<\/em>\u00a0often hope our beliefs still hold true\u2026\u2026\u2026assuming we honestly question our beliefs in order to discover if they ever rang true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DEATH OF HOPE AND BELIEF As much as we would like to \u2018believe\u2019 we are all clear headed, logical individuals who only deal with verified \u2018facts\u2019 while shunning hearsay, rumor, \u2018hope\u2019 and \u2018belief\u2019, the reality is to some degree or another we integrate all of the above, and so much more, into our personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3934,4037,2675,4041,2677,1648,4038,2057,4039,4040,1250],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belief","tag-cognition","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-critical-thinking","tag-ego","tag-facts","tag-fight-or-flight","tag-hope","tag-thinking","tag-thought","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}