Guest Thinkers — July 15, 2009

Power N Knowing God

Do some folks unconsciously seek power through involving themselves in religion?

http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Vygotsky.html

Vygotsky believed that upper mind thinking was directly related to social activity and had no biological affects after early age development.

In later analysis, Vygotsky seems to point to religion as a source for the upper mind to prove itself more knowing or powerful than others.

Could this be the reason for folks like Reverend Jim Jones to take his cultish belief to such extreams. (Power)

Do folks find power in knowing God, Yaweh, etc.?

Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.

When does "oversharing" become an issue?

The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.

Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?

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