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Shantam I SIngh commented on the post, To Resist or Not To Resist? That Is The Question…, on the site sannyasnews 3 years, 9 months ago
“How many western sannyasins have you personally come across recently?”
Two. At the naturist lake, one talks about Pune One all the time, the second is with John.
The second one, after seeing my facebook […]
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms or supports one’s prior personal beliefs or values.[1] It is an important type of cognitive bias that has a significant effect on the proper functioning of society by distorting evidence-based decision-making. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. For example, a person may cherry-pick empirical data that supports one’s belief, ignoring the remainder of the data that is not supportive. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
Surely this has always been and always will be characteristic of human beings as long as we are run by our emotions, eg fear (the big one), anger, jealousy, greed?
We can forget anything like ’enlightenment’ until we’re no longer their victims.
This is truly amazing Shantam.
YOU go to a naturists lake, and manage to track down two men at this naturist lake who confirm your prejudices, one living in the past as much as you do, and the other bitching about sannyas as much as yu do.
I went into a cafe for the first time in four months yesterday, and the young couple who run the place remembered me from the last visit six monts ago, were so pleased to see me again, as we had got into conversation on the previous visit, and we talked about what was going on, what we had been up to, and they gave me me a free slice of chocolate cake.