Our favorite number used this term often. I've been thinking...
Instead of trying to "one up" a left during a debate, let's start asking:
"Help me reconcile this" - and then lay out the facts. It may help to break through the barrier of blissful ignorance, which is what I seem to encounter quite often. Much more so then hatred. The hatred is online, it's superficial. My neighbors, friends, family, people I meet, aren't my enemy. In fact they're all pretty cool, and I live in a blue area in VA. And I've never met anyone who isn't family orientated and willing to work hard to better their family and situation. Of course there's always outliers.
But do you all notice the same thing? Especially after a celebratory holiday like Thanksgiving? It's not we that hate one another, it's them that hate us.
In reminder, ask your neighbor, friend, family member, a stranger.... "Can you reconcile this?"
Assuming they'll know what "reconcile" means...
When you say "they" who are you describing?
I'm thinking of young people in my family who were indoctrinated and poorly educated by public schools.
I feel you. It's hard to breakthrough to those you love. This may help, it's why I wrote those words. I am encountering the same "wall." It's the breakthrough part I think we need to focus on, not the complete dumping of factual evidence all at once, which is what feels right in the sense you are trying to save someone. We need to start fighting back intellectually now. We've dumped the facts for years. It's time to do what we've been called upon to do... Which is guide. Jesus helps with this, in reference to how to guide and teach. Peace be with you 😌
I think you are quite right to phrase it as a peaceful question.
The most reconciling you'll do is with yourself. Critical Thinking is a skill not taught in schools anymore. By design.
Critical Thinking is the thorough examination of one's held beliefs and putting it through the mental ringer. It is the process of coming across new information, and reconciling that aside held beliefs to distill Truth. That is what Q asks of us.
Yes I understand 😌
"It's either this or that, it can't be both." Is usually how I frame things.
"Either Wu-Flu is obliterating people because they aren't wearing masks or social distancing or Flu has been wiped out because people are masking and social distancing. It can't be both, they're mutually exclusive, pick one."
Whichever one they pick, counter it again.
One big problem here: They don't care if their views make sense or hold up to scrutiny. Everybody else believes these things, so I'm not gonna challenge them - that is their M.O.
Most people that follow politics and vote cannot justify their beliefs, or even describe them intelligently.
This was apparent during the beginning of the jab. On social media it was "I've done my part"...look at how virtuous I am...I'm just like everyone else. Common sense and critical thinking just flew out of brains everywhere.
Genius