Hi Joe, Nice story about the choir.
> Imho a child will become convinced of what he is convinced. The threshold for becoming convinced seems lower for children than adults. I wonder if this is because children crave some static latches? > Society is very chaotic. And we all seek order in our personal Universe. The problem seems to be that once we make a static latch onto a belief it requires a lot of energy to overcome inertia to reject that belief in favor of a new one. So it seems to make a difference what order you acquire your beliefs in. Does it ever bother you that there are children in your church? Could they be getting indoctrinated into a set of beliefs about which they are not capable of making a fair evaluation? That kind of sucks. Mary On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Buddhism's s/o > > > > > On 5/1/10 12:48 PM, "Mary" <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> > > My question centers around the nature of belief. How do we become > > convinced? What is necessary to achieve the state of being convinced > of > > anything? It seems much easier to convince a child of anything than > to > > convince an adult. > <snip> > > Hi Mary and All, > > Imho a child will become convinced of what he is convinced. Society is > very > chaotic. I am a singer in a Church choir. To create an atmosphere of > openness I must be open. I have a loud bass voice, and I don¹t like to > sing > melody but rather be spontaneous and create a noise (hopefully > harmonious) > that allows people to feel good in a crowd setting. The harmonious > choir is > more successful than not in creating an atmosphere of quietness. To > hear a > Church with about 200 people in it remain totally quiet for 7 minutes > or so > after we finish a hymn while the rest of the service continues is quite > remarkable. Most of the time the shuffling in place after most hymns > is > quite loud. But there are those moments when all, including small > children, > are quiet. Small favors! > > Joe > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
