In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Criss JamiTag: fear innocence society people judgment guilt skepticism blame bias introversion social-norms assumption introverts judgmental accusation extroverts extroversion judgmentality unconscious-mind
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
Criss JamiTag: humor family people belief nationalism patriotism patriotic funny arrogance logic sarcasm statistics mystery illogical pride true country superiority superior inferiority nation bias funny-but-true patriot clan irrational sarcastic percent arrogant inferior estimate estimated estimation percentage prideful stat statistic stats
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
Criss JamiTag: fear love compassion prejudice understanding comprehension listening attention discernment bias judgmentality
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
Criss JamiTag: equality class respect status discernment bias stereotype person human-being righteous title disrespect rank geniune
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss JamiTag: free-will belief god dream hypocrisy denial uncertainty mother skepticism crime confusion rhetorical apologetics atrocities imprisonment agenda blame bias son scrutiny self-interest biases
We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.
H.P. LovecraftTag: truth atheism conformity emotion atheist honor value absurdity evidence indoctrination orthodox bias cheat brainwashing falsity religionists
Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.
Michael J. CohenTag: nature stories psychology health ecology labels bias
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan ChanceTag: insanity sanity explanation prejudice crazy mystery discrimination psychiatry understand mental-illness bias stereotype lunacy explain mental-disorder mental-health-stigma stigma diagnosis psychology-quotes sane-and-insane
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
Joanna RussTag: women writing feminism bias
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.
George SaundersTag: love god dumb pleasure weak cruelty fat bias lazy
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