Thinking

'Let's hope with the end of the series that parents will continue to encourage their children to read, because reading is far more important than playing computer games or going to the movies.

Neither of those media works the brain and stimulates the imagination, and imagination is a key ingredient of thinking. Most of the real scientific breakthroughs resulted from imagination. Only after something new is visualized can reason and experiment be employed to bring it into reality.'

Charley Reese at LRC gives a book review with a message - turn off the media and read a book. We should re-teach ourselves to read and then to discriminate whether what we are reading is fiction or non-fiction. Then we need ask ourselves whether the non-fiction is true to form or opinion rather than truth. The criteria for good judgment is that the ideas work for you in your system of thinking. People should think for themselves rather than have you thinking for them. Stop thinking for other people and go read a book. You do not have to believe everything the book says - you just have to make what you believe work in the system that you think in. Watch howdt for thinking in failed systems - they fail in more ways than the obvious.