Quote of the day—Gad Saad @GadSaad

On a personal level, I’m a free thinker who is allergic go along, get along, group think. The ideals that drive my life are freedom and truth and any attack on these ideals represents an existential threat to all that I hold dear.

Gad Saad
2020
The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
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“Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason.”  JORDAN PETERSON

This could be said of me from the time I was in the first grade. My grade school experience was hell because of this. Two of the three teachers I had in my first eight years of formal schooling tried to make me believe absurd things. Example include such as three doubled was nine, and the letter ‘y’ is always marked as a long ‘i’ when marking up a word by its sounds. The third teacher had her faults as well but non compliance was not so harshly punished. The absurdities extended from the classroom to the playground with rule interpretations that met with the teacher’s desired outcome instead of the written word of the rule book.

Classmates, my parents, and at least one younger brother for the most part advised me to not let it bother me and just go along with it even though it was wrong. That does not appear to be in my nature and it has never been a characteristic I had an interest in changing about myself. I’d rather attempt to change the world and fail than change myself to conform with a false view of reality to avoid punishment for wrong think.

I think I’m going to like this book.—Joe]

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3 thoughts on “Quote of the day—Gad Saad @GadSaad

  1. All that said, many will agree with it but have opposite interpretations. Some desire the freedom which comes from truth, reason and the law (the significant law being the Decalogue), while others want freedom from truth, from reason and from the law, for these are all constraints and therefore seen as unacceptable, even unfair, even tyrannical, burdens. Which side a person may be on is not always immediately obvious, as one side can be seen as mimicking the other.

    “Take heed that no man decieve you” (Matthew 24:4) is therefore the operative phrase of our time, in which truth is deception and lies are truth, evil is good and good evil.

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