WHY FORGIVENESS IS THE F-WORD:
-Hijacked by religion
-Weaponized by abusers to enforce compliance
-Victim blaming "Why can't you just forgive?"
Instead, ACCEPT REALITY by asking:
What happened? Who did it? Is it a pattern?
Then use that knowledge to make appropriate choices - including whether to give the guilty party continued access to your life. #forgiveness #abuse #ReligiousTrauma #wisdom #reality #criticalthinking #exchristian #psychology #counselor
#counselor #psychology #exchristian #criticalthinking #reality #wisdom #ReligiousTrauma #abuse #forgiveness
"It's part of being human to want to have easy answers, to want to be part of something bigger than yourself."
#DianeBenscoter, How to Become a Cult Leader
"Cult beliefs are often a house of cards. If you were to discredit one piece of it, the whole thing will come down. Therefore, it's really important to shut down any kind of critical thinking. "
#AshaRangappa , How to Become a Cult Leader
#dianebenscoter #asharangappa #cults #criticalthinking
@kevinrns I think there are distinctions to be drawn among gossip, sharing experiences and information, authoritative sourcing (data driven or expert analysis) and promotion. For many users, social media experience involves all of these. I’m not sure you can teach people to “use good judgment,” but identifying #FallaciousArguments is always a #criticalthinking skill worth developing. #socialmedia #gossip #promotion #advertising
#fallaciousarguments #criticalthinking #socialmedia #gossip #promotion #advertising
@janriemer I think most people don’t like, or want to think for themselves. They’d rather outsource this to the masses.
Seneca used to say
“Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds; for as yet you cannot trust yourself to them with safety.”
And I agree with him. Developing self, and critical thinking, is the one things you can do to improve your life and well being.
#criticalthinking #freewill #stoicism
2023 Winning Critical Thinking games announced:
🌐https://criticalthinker.games/2023-Winning-Games-Press-Release--Critical-Thinking.pdf
@CriticalThinkingGames @gamingagainstv
#CriticalThinking #Videogames #Education #Misinformation #Disinformation #Edutooter #PublicHealth #Prevention #Indie #Nonprofit #GameDev #Teaching
#criticalthinking #videogames #education #misinformation #disinformation #edutooter #publichealth #prevention #indie #nonprofit #gamedev #teaching
Thanks to @ct_bergstrom
#Lecture 1: An Introduction to Bullshit
1.1 Introduction to Bullshit.
Bullshit is everywhere, and we've had enough. We want to teach people to detect and defuse bullshit where ever it may arise.
#lecture #usa #learning #criticalthinking #teaching #free #video
📣 Announcing the winning critical thinking games:
⭐ Corporation, Inc.
- KSU Narrative Game Lab
⭐ Figure It Sprout
- David Li, Quang Nguyen, Gaby Sanchez, Kitty Huang, Isaac Orozco
⭐ Mushwhom?
- Collin Lang, Knitwit Studios
The winning critical thinking games and remaining finalists will be published over the next 6 months.
Congratulations to all of the finalists! And a big thank you to the outstanding judges whose expertise and wonderful feedback will help us prepare these games for publishing.
#CriticalThinking #Videogames #Nonprofit #PublicHealth #Education @edutooters @publichealth @communicationscholars @stopTDV @gamingagainstv
#criticalthinking #videogames #nonprofit #publichealth #education
People with relevant experience, potential opinions, and/or followers therewith: @rrrichardzach, @UlrikeHahn, @consequently, @colin, @RanaldClouston, @CubeRootOfTrue, @Inquiry
Relevant topics: #CriticalThinking #edu #higherEd #teaching #learning #research #preregistration #writing #argumentMapping #visualization
#criticalthinking #edu #highered #teaching #learning #research #PreRegistration #writing #argumentmapping #visualization
@mlevie
This semester, I'm teaching Ursula K. LeGuin's short short story, "She Unnames Them."
I'm curious as to how my students will react.
And even if they have the critical thinking abilities to be able to identify the setting and main characters.
#CriticalThinking
#Professor
#ProfessorLife
#Literature #books
#criticalthinking #professor #professorlife #literature #books
Being a Europhile doesn't mean you endorse Eurocentrism. I believe in the EU's vision of inclusion and cooperation among nations. At the same time, I'm skeptical of Eurocentric narratives that perpetuate colonial dominance. The two are not mutually exclusive. #EU #Europhilia #EurocentrismSux #criticalthinking
#eu #europhilia #eurocentrismsux #criticalthinking
Anti-science people are trying to censor and get "fact checking" completely deleted from australian media, namely murdoch and co.
#factcheck #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #petition #getup #science #criticalthinking #murdoch
#factcheck #australia #AusGov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #petition #getup #science #criticalthinking #murdoch
Challenging #Prayer | Can You Change #God's Mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYOuDVZD4ps
They tell us "prayer works"...but is it true? Let's explore the idea that god answers prayer to see if it's even possible within the #Christian worldview.
#atheist #atheism #criticalthinking
#prayer #god #christian #atheist #atheism #criticalthinking
#science #criticalthinking #cults #newage People Are Talking About Breatharians – It's Extremely Dangerous And Complete #Nonsense | IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/people-are-talking-about-breatharians-its-extremely-dangerous-and-complete-nonsense-70477
#nonsense #newage #cults #criticalthinking #science
It’s always been tough for a more rational voice on fringe topics to break through to the pro-#paranormal communities who blacklist even marginally critical voices. It’s worse now with fractured social media. Silos are stronger than ever. The audience has decreased 10-fold. Not exaggerating. #criticalthinking
Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine.
Needed: more accurate representations of the scientific consensus.
My new piece: Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/ via
@healthydebate
#Scicomm #science #misinformation #criticalthinking #publichealth #climatechange #gmo #VaccinesWork
#vaccineswork #gmo #climatechange #publichealth #criticalthinking #misinformation #science #scicomm
A story about the descent of #NaomiWolf into the #mirrorworld (which reminded me of the #upsidedown from Stranger Things)
#NaomiKlein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the #conspiracy rabbit hole – and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality | Naomi Klein | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories
#ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #altrightwing #CriticalThinking
#criticalthinking #altrightwing #misinformation #conspiracytheories #conspiracy #naomiklein #UpsideDown #MirrorWorld #naomiwolf
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane
Let the theories begin! I have multiple ones competing in my head as I type!
#criticalthinking #superpower #putin #wagner
Education and #CriticalThinking as tools in the battle against FAKE NEWS: https://world-education-blog.org/2023/08/11/education-and-critical-thinking-as-tools-in-the-battle-against-fake-news/
The main reason fake news goes viral is a lack of critical thinking. Part of the population doesn’t know how to *think critically* and doesn’t analyse the information they are given. @skepticism
"The main reason fake news goes viral is a lack of critical thinking. Part of the population doesn’t know how to think critically and doesn’t analyze the information they are given."
And if some in the US have their way, the dearth of critical thinking will strengthen to the point of idiocracy.
#criticalthinking #education #edutooters