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Muscles atrophy when you don't use them. Brains especially. How long does it take before there is no coming back from being "braindead"?

Millions of folks never think about anything. They don't have to. Others have done it for them and simply instruct them what to think. Easy peasy. Scripted thinking. Inflexible. No wiggle room. A boon to the lazy who'd rather do other things than think.

Imagine a world where that lazy attitutde did not exist? Imagine a world where everyone thought about everything all the time? Imagine a world where people questioned  the powerful and came to conclusions and fought the corrupt? Imagine a world absent evil? Can you do that? What would such a world have become by now?

Posted - April 19, 2019
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  • 10771
    Just like an electrical current, human beings prefer to take the course of least resistance. To get off this path takes hard work and discipline; something many are unwilling to do, as it's easier to "go with the flow".
    Our "electronic age" isn't helping mates any wither.  Cellphones have eliminated physical human contact (just text your spouse to pass the salt at dinner).  Video games take the place of actually playing outside" (you might get hurt out there).  Robots do physical labor for us (vacuuming the floor, assembling our products).  Virtual assistants have made it so we don't even have to get up out of our chair to do some things.  Why think when something or someone else will do it for you?  
    The result - a "braindead" society.  Ironically, we live in a health conscious society.  Most people want to be physically fit. Unfortunately, being fit takes time and effort (there's that "work" thing again").  It's much easier to strap your Fitbit to your Roomba and have it "run" on your NordicTrack, while you lie back and watch Netflix ("Alexa - mute the NordicTrack").  

    Yes, there are some who refuse to take the course of least resistance, but they are becoming fewer and fewer with each generation.  
      April 19, 2019 10:35 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    M'dear Shuhak you are far more hopeful than I am. All the people who support Dondonjohn. Do they think? If they did they could not possibly have elected him. So I can only go by what I experience through observation. Thank you for your very thoughtful reply with all the spot-on examples. If these folks were only 50% as perceptive as you I'd never have to question anything. They aren't. SIGH. Thank you for your reply and Happy Friday! :)
      April 19, 2019 10:45 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I believe that the mind is much like a well-trained athlete.  

    The longer you have used that muscle, the stronger it is unless a disease thwarts the action.  But any disease can do that at any time to any one of us.  It is a miracle that we exist each and every second in case the athiests of the world did not take notice of this.

    Anyway, I digress.  The more you use that muscle, the less likely it is to atrophy.  Like a well-trained athlete, you have a healthy body to fight off signs of aging and decrepitude if you exercise your mind and keep an open one at that.  Change is especially important as well as being secure and stable.  Not one or the other.  Especially in older years.  Old people need to feel secure, but they should not fear change.  They should bless change. Because change keeps us fresh and young.  
      April 19, 2019 10:49 AM MDT
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