--- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > See, we maybe conditioned to stop the car when the traffic lights > > turn > > > red. You can provisionally accept it, validate it as true, based on > > > observation etc. The conditioning is that you connect two facts, the > > > red traffic lights, and the need to stop the car. > > > > But that's a different type of conditioning; > > that's more like Pavlov's dogs. I was talking > > (and thought you were talking) about becoming > > convinced that something is true. > > But its all connected. You experience something, and then you are > being told something about that experience. (Or are otherwise no > need for all the lectures!) What you know, reinforces the > experience in a certain way. Then the reinforced experience > reinforces your belief about it again. You cannot isolate the two.
It seems terribly important *to* the conditioned ego to believe that it hasn't been conditioned, that it has thought up (or "verified") all these concepts that have been taught to it on its own. The bottom line, however, is that it rarely, if ever, deviates from the concepts taught to it. And also feels the compulsion to argue their obvious "truth" with others. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
