- To Think -

What Is Rational Critical Thinking?

- By Bahram Maskanian

We, the humankind learn and accumulate our knowledge base, logic and wisdom in our life span, through the interpretation of our observations. - Through the interpretation of our observations, we therefore built and form our perceptions, we make use of our perceptions to conduct deductive reasoning, followed by rational thinking, to rationalize in order to make well thought out decisions.

Perception is a sophisticated self-organizing information system. - Perception is the recognition and interpretation of our sensory stimuli, based chiefly on our ability to remember the perceived subjects. Perception is the neurological processes by which our recognition, observation and interpretation are affected and made possible.

Fact is that 95% of our judgment errors and of our thinking and decision-making errors are due to the errors of our perceptions. - But culturally, we have always blamed the logic, not the means of deceptive presentation, which brought us the wrong logic. - For example; if we were to observe a subject, without having sufficient prior background knowledge of that subject, chances are we are going to take the given information without any examination. And if the information given is misleading and deceptive, we therefore will end up forming our perceptions based on lies and deceit.

Rational thinking is an exciting discovery process in an infinite space of possibilities. We are able to think rationally to find and reach the optimum solution for any given problem, or hypothesis in a reasonable space of time. - The process of deductive reasoning, or good guessing should not be mistaken as rational thinking.

Hypothesis is a tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts, which can be tested by further examination, a theory of something taken to be true for the purposes of deductive reasoning, assumption and investigation. - Hypothesis is the precursor of a conditional statement. - Must be noted here that many advanced cultures have been ruined, due to the lack of creative possibilities, or Hypothesis.

A healthy rational thinking requires; an adequate attention span, patience and the ability to focus, to observe, interpret, perceive and consequently develop logic.

The General Definition of Thinking:
To think is to analyze, examine and sort out information and form in the mind ideas or opinions, to perform any mental operation, to reason, to bring to mind or recollect, to determine, resolve and to work things out.

Thinking is to conceive thoughts and ideas by reasoning, to form an opinion, to judge, to consider, to employ and to bring one’s intellectual faculties to work, to concentrate one's thoughts on any given subject.

Thinking is the act of reasoning from factual knowledge and or evidence. Thinking is to use the mind for processing imagination and information, to arrive at logical conclusions, from premises known and or assumed to be true for making imaginative decisions.

To think is to reason about or reflect on, to ponder. Think how complex is Our Home The Milky Way Galaxy. Think the matter through creatively. To decide by reasoning, reflection or pondering, thinking what to believe, what to say or what to do.

To think is to judge, or regard, look upon. To think is to learn of, or from, by analyzing what one could learn by thinking about the newly acquired knowledge, thought, suggestion and or idea, in order to learn and accept as truth.

Thinking is to call to mind, to remember, to visualize and recall the images of what was once known to the mind. To think is to have creative thoughts, to bring a thought to mind by imagination or invention to devise or evolve to invent by imaginative thinking.

Thinking is to bring one’s mind into a given condition by mental preoccupation, to exercise the power of one’s mind by reasoning and by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using or arriving to a judgment.

Common sense principles and ethical standards should always be our guides and bases for our considerations, reflections and decision-making mental exercise, to lead a fruitful, thoughtful and exciting life journey. - One should never make any decisions, nor implement one under extreme euphoria, sadness, madness, resentment, or anger. - The best state of mind, conducive for rational thinking is to be calm, relaxed and grounded within a tranquil environment.

Definition of Critical Thinking:
Critical Thinking is characterized by a watchful, exact and repeat evaluation and judgment, to conduct a serious search, to read and contemplate before making a decision, or forming an opinion. - Critical Thinking means to judge severely, coupled with careful consideration, to investigate and look to find fault, before forming a judgment, or an estimation. - Critical Thinking is to consider very, very carefully, at length and evaluate all the angles, before reaching the crucial and decisive point of decision-making. - Critical Thinking is to lineup all of the essential critical elements of the subject matter in question, and cautiously analyze them one, by one, over, and over again, before deliberating and rendering a decision.

The Use of Critical Thinking:
Obviously not all of our daily thought process requires the lengthy and careful means of Critical Thinking. Only a few life-altering decisions that we need to make throughout our lifetime, do require careful and Critical Thinking.

• Decisions such as whether, or not, nation should go to war, get killed, and kill thousands of innocent people to protect the nation-less corporate interest of the criminal and the greedy, gaining more undeserved profits and territory.
• Decisions such as whether, or not, one should believe in and support any of the horrifying religions, tainted by barbarism, murder and blood of millions, killed to preserve the elitist religious mullahs life and social position.
• Decisions such as whether, or not, one should perhaps look to find a harmonious all-inclusive alternative, a spiritual philosophy based on Common Sense principles and Ethical Standards, instead of the mad-men-made, morally corrupt, misogynist, murderous, war-mongering, war-profiteering, idiotic and divisive Adam and Eve based Abrahamic religions; Judaism, and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam.
• Decisions such as whether, or not, we should allow it, and be part of the destructive force ruining our One, and Only Home, Planet Earth for profits?

"I am, and I can think, therefore I can change who I am"
"I Think Therefore I am" - Rene Descartes

To think is to care and have consideration. What do you think?

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Bullshit Detection System -- Protective Immunity For The Mind, Body and Soul

Bullshit Detection System

Protective Immunity For The Mind, Body and Soul

- By Bahram Maskanian

Definition of Bullshit:
Bullshit is a bogus statement deliberately presented as being true. Bullshit is something meant to deceive and to give a wrong misleading impression. Bullshit is an act, or attempt to mislead and deceive others by making a lie highly believable as fact. Exactly as it is done in show business, where a professional Bullshit Artist fools us into believing what he or she wants us to believe. The so-called movie stars / actors are good examples of whom and what Bullshit Artists are and do. To make it crystal-clear and better understand how high quality bullshit is manufactured, watch TV advertisements and programs, or see movie, or watch and listen to any religious mullah, or government, or business official speak.

We are equipped with a biological immune system, which fights off infection by foreign pathogens and defends our physical being against any foreign invader. We are also armed with a common sense immune system, which protects us against the invaders of the mind and soul. One may refer to it as, - Common Sense Wisdom, - or - Intuition, - or - Sixth Sense, - or - Gut Feeling, - but I like to call it, - Bullshit Detection System - or BDS for short.

On a daily basis we are bombarded with so much bullshit at every level and at every second of every waking moment of our lives. So I thought it would be a jolly good idea to recognize the intricate functionality of our BDS and to learn how to use, enhance and strengthen our - Bullshit Detection System - BDS. Whenever you are reading, listening or watching any piece of information presented to you as fact or truth, but deep down inside you are feeling an uneasy sensation about it, that is your BDS at work, which means one of the following two conditions is true:

1. The subject matter could be true but since you do not know enough about it, your BDS kicks in, and alerts you that you need to educate yourself about the suspect subject matter. When you are investigating and educating yourself always read the pros and cons, and you shall come to your own healthy conclusions, not of the very well paid preacher, historians, authors or reporters of the misleading text, or the very well paid deceptive talking heads and opinion makers of the nation-less corporate media. Discovering the truth for yourself is wise, everlasting, tremendously rewarding, satisfying and priceless. Discovering the truth for yourself is a powerful guiding light, which will enhance and brighten your future and the future of the community in which you live.
2. The presenters of that piece of information, the well paid preacher, historians, authors or reporters of the misleading text or the deceptive talking heads and opinion makers of the nation-less corporate media are full of shit and they are after your citizen power, money, vote, or all of what you own.

We should never lose sight of the fact that lack of trust for our built-in BDS, or any efforts to suppress our BDS will lead us into the path of ethical and social degradation; a society full of stupid brain-dead people under complete domination of a few bullshit-artist, who themselves are under the spell of higher bullshit curse: greed.

Reflective Mind - Reflective minds are those who suppress their BDS, essentially training and forcing their minds to function as a reflective mind. This means only reflecting, just like a mirror, the thoughts and findings of others, however wrong and stupid they maybe, as viable ideas and even sometimes believing them as their own.

Analytical Mind - Analytical minds are those who value their mind's cognitive abilities and sense of self-definition and tend to do what needs to be done. They study the pros and cons, then sit back, analyze their findings, and come to their own healthy conclusion.

We must always think critically of all authorities, issues and personalities all the time. But the bullshit dispensers of our time, such as; nation-less corporations, religious mullahs of the 3 Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism, and its 2 derivatives; Christianity and Islam, easily controlled academia talking heads, politicians and Hollywood high quality bullshit production machine want us not to think at all, or at best, just think passively.

Incidentally, the finer and better fabricated the bullshit, the more difficult it would be to detect it. Speaking of the father and grand prizewinner of best bullshit; next to history, are the 3 Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism, and its 2 derivatives; Christianity and Islam, which happen to be the 3 top ranking of the long lasting and deadly bullshit of all-time, ever manufactured by the patriarchal criminal bastards.

Caution, NOT THINKING CRITICALLY is extremely hazardous to your health, health of your family and well being of your community, therefore do your own reading, thinking and decision making, thus never permit anyone to manipulate your thoughts, emotions and behavior. We must continue and never stop Self-Exploration and Self-Education, until the last day of class, our lives, the graduation day.

Causes of Sexual Impairments - The most common causes of sexual problems

Changing the world, but this time with sex!

- By Bahram Maskanian

Based on my own powers of observations, scientific research, my own sexual experiences and life, plus twenty years of experience in helping, healing and teaching others, I found that the main cause of many sexual and emotional problems clearly stems from: unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, too much stress, all kinds of alcohol abuse, coffee, carbonated drinks, tobacco, sugar, artificial sweeteners, pharmaceutical drugs and processed foods, which will cause tiredness, boredom, illness, lack of hygiene, inability to communicate, deep-rooted emotional issues and resentment.  

The other huge problem is religion, all patriarchal religions.  From Judaism and its 2 derivatives: Christianity and Islam, to Buddhism, Hinduism, Mithraism, Zarathustrians and all others in between, are all barbaric manmade myths, manufactured to enslave woman.   You see, out of the known 12,000 years of so called human civilization, the first flourishing and thriving 8,000 years were ruled under matriarchal social governing system, up to 4,000 years ago.  The first coup-d'état and the very first attempt to overthrow the highly loved and successful matriarchal social governing system, were orchestrated by a Persian man, a psychopath, known as Mithra, who made up Mithraism.  And as they say the rest is history.

Under the matriarchal social governing system no one had any control, or monopoly on anybody else’s life, sex, relationship, etc.  In fact sex was a communal and group type of recreational activity.   Children resulting from group sex were loved, cared for and raised by the whole community, the phrase: “it takes a village to raise a child” comes from the very same time period and idea.  

The religious manual’s prescribed inequality between woman and man, deliberately denigrating women to unequal subservient status, where whose sole purpose in life will always be to serve narcissistic men, involved in a relationship based on manmade lies created by the patriarchal psychopaths, a clear recipe for disaster.

To all women whom are waiting for someone to give them back their human rights, gender equality and dignity; please note, that human rights, gender equality and dignity cannot be given to you by anyone, nor be taken away from you, human rights, gender equality and dignity are not what anyone can give you. Human rights, gender equality and dignity are your inalienable rights that no one can take away from you.

The Top 10 Sex Distractions and Problems:

1 - Men Sense of Entitlement: is a huge problem, stemming from the idiotic and barbaric religious manuals, even the most supposedly modern thinking men are taking advantage of the mythical nonsense in their own favor, expecting their wives to do grocery shopping, cook, clean, take care of the kids, while having a day time job working just as hard, or even harder as their husband, to make money and be a good obedient whore in the bedroom, to satisfy her man, her master.  A true impossibility, one would need a 34-hour day to do all of that, at the end of which, one would be exhausted, unable to do anything else, but sleep.

To all men, I say if you have any sense of decency, humanity and any brains at all, learn to treat all women with dignity, as your absolute equal, truly respect, care and love them, as you wish to be done unto you.

2 - Relationship Misconceptions: choosing the wrong type of relationship is another one of major causes of sexual and relationship problems.  Religion prescribed inequality between woman and man, plus denigrating women to unequal subservient humans, whose sole purpose in life is to serve men, based on manmade lies.  There are all kinds of labels one can use, such as: monogamous, promiscuous, polyamorous, or open relationship and wife swapping swing type of relationship.  What you do not want to do is choosing a type out of social pressure and or conformity without having gone through the necessary sexual training, education and journey of self-discovery, will undoubtedly be doomed to fail.

3 - Stuck in a Bad Relationship Rut: as a relationship matures, if not properly maintained, the long-term gradual built up of resentment could drive people apart and cause sexual relations become stale and the relationship end.

4 - Lack of Sex Within a Relationship: most couples go through phases when one, or both partners may stop having sex. The desire to have sex erodes due to all mentioned in the first two paragraphs at the beginning of this article.

5 - Achieving Orgasm: research suggests that up to 45 percent of women have never climaxed, nor experienced an orgasm, while a further 35 percent will have problems reaching orgasm at some stage in their lives.  Estimated 65 percent of women cannot ever climax and enjoy having an orgasm through sexual intercourse alone.

6 - Premature Ejaculation: this sexual problem is estimated to affect over 35 to 45 percent of men.   Scientific research suggests that all sexual problems are due to all mentioned in the first two paragraphs at the beginning of this article.

7 - Inability to Achieve Erection: affects approximately 45 per cent of men by the age of 40, and up to 75 percent of men by the age of 70.  As mentioned at the above, in the first two paragraphs at the beginning of this article, it is caused by too much stress, alcohol and unhealthy diet.

8 - Sexual Drive and Desire: on average, an adult male body produces about 7 to 8 times more of the sex hormone; testosterone than an adult female body, thereby males have higher sex drive than females.  For healthy men, who have a stress free and healthy diet and life, the testosterone levels tend to stay the same throughout their lives. -- Female testosterone levels could also be dramatically affected, due to all mentioned in the first two paragraphs at the beginning of this article, causing irregular menstruation cycles leading to loss of testosterone.

9 - Painful Intercourse and Sexual Penetration: commonly caused by a lack of sexual seduction and arousal. Childbirth, the menopause, infections and irritations, a tilted uterus or other gynecological disorders can also cause painful sexual penetration.

10 - Sexually Related Addiction and Sexual Affairs: any sexual activity that in time has gone ‘out of control’, such as: visiting strip joints and watching pornography.  Too much of anything, especially highly impersonal pornography shall desensitize the abuser, causing unrealistic expectations, leading to finding real physical sexual relationship with their partner inadequate, causing their partner feelings of hurt and rejection.

Increased online sexual affairs, with prostitutes, or masseuse who offer happy endings, and or opportunities for meeting others who feel rejected by their lover, to flirt, cheat and have sex, with sexually unhappy strangers at social networking sites and chat forums are big and obvious danger to any and all relationships.