Sunday, April 12, 2009

pre-reading blog #4

What is “junk thought”? Is it thinking that is worthless? What is that, exactly? What examples can you find in your experience? In your opinion, how does it influence people? Please end your blog with at least one good critical question.
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"Junk thought" I suppose could be categorized as a line of thought that leads to a false or ignorant idea, such as thinking that the holocast never occurred during World War II, that is what I believe "junk thought" to be. I would'nt consider "junk thought" to be worthless, just mis-leading and wrong, there is no such thing as a worthless thought, only those that don't think are truly worthless. A "junk thought" that I can think of from my life is probably the "false" thought that cheese companies used to have in their comercials about the moon being made out of cheese, it may be false, but it is still a funny thought to give to child, to allow them to believe and think that anything is [pssibnle if the moon is made out of cheese, makes you think "what is the planet mars made out of? Orange Juice?" that is the false "junk thought", and each indivividual thought can be called worthless, but only in the stance that it is untrue, each "junk thought" influences those that hear and makes them think from that thought, "is that true or false?" This thought approach could be conisedered the foundation that the scientific method is based off, trial and error through experimentation. So my critical question to you the reader is this, if "junk thought" could be linked with the thought of thinking all reason, and scientific reason especially, does that mean that all "junk thought" could be considered to be the most important thought humans have, or could it be condsidered the worst only because that thought makes absolutly no sense, just like this question? Think and learn, or learn to think, that is true wisdom (how very gnomic of me).

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