Is the Human Mind infected by NBE viruses?

NBE Virus = Belief system

The only reason to invent a new word for an existing one is to put a different spin on it.
This is an attempt to compare people's religious, social and political beliefs with a viral infection, which is always a harmful thing.

Here is another analogy with a different spin, "Cultural Cuisine".
Everyone needs food, but different peoples use different ingredients, and cook the food with different spices and methods of cooking.
They do the same with beliefs.

 

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More people may have been killed for religious reasons than by viruses.

Harmful is an understatement.

No comparison here, there exist only one reality.

This is scientific fact, even though reality is distorted by Human thought and perception.

 

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It is up to the individual to make their own decisions. We only supply tools for them to process information.

There is no end to the amount of information that floods the human mind from childhood on to death.

Instructions on how to deal with information and attempt to decipher it's reality is something all people could benefit from.

The problem is humans must teach this to themselves by experience. If they are infected prior to this understanding, their perception may become distorted beyond repair.

 

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Which came 1st, the chicken or the egg?
Yes, religion isn't the only malfunction as shown in the quote below & others in this thread.

The OP said or implied nothing of ceasing communication.
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The basics of logic & critical thinking should be taught in elementary school.
But I don't think most teachers can handle the results.
LOGIC WITH DICK & JANE
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Yes but the earlier 1 is taught these things the better effect.
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Teachers, preachers & others do that very thing now yet without teaching logic.
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(I usually don't do this but my copy&paste is temporarily not working.)

 

IP should be taught at an early age before many conceptions are formed.

Not all books, video's, movies, are fact or truth.

How many times do we have to tell our children, what they see in the movies is not true to reality?

They need to understand some reality exists in all observations. Deciphering that degree is key to understanding reality. Reality may be zero to one hundred percent.

We cannot rely on parents to teach IP to children due to the fact that most parents are infected themselves.

A scientific system of teaching IP to children needs to be established.

Yes, it is important to teach the two mind sets, of the singular human mind.

Yes, reaction to the environment and negative observations, violent reactions to the environment are almost always detrimental in retrospect.

 

"Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of service to them."

Gradgrind in Dickens Hard Times

 

Captain

This quote is a contrast of black and white.

Reality is in gray scale as well as black and white.

It is a good thing to study mythology and folklore as long as one understands that in reality they are myth and folklore.

 

Isn't more a matter of letting the child explore, be stimulated, experience. I don't want another system to shove in the kid's head, even if it is the 'right' one.

Agreed.

I think a lot of this could be explained by being honest about our reactions. Most of all, I think it is important to be humble. We already have been affected ourselves. Sharing the ways in which we are caught, mindfucked, confused and extricating ourselves is a lot better than telling the kids ' the way things are' just like every other damn voice and expert out there does.

'We'?

This is an extreme example, but the Khmer Rouge thought this way.

 

A character Dickens no doubt has a severely ironic relationship with.

 

there are always to a ying and a yang to things, whether you acknowledgment it is the answer. theres still a state of being that needs to be taken into account. an ego is a virus.

 

1) This is actually not the first time we have this topic on Sciforums .........
information/brainwashing ... working like a computervirus on the human brain ...... infiltrating it´s thinking ... and making them pass on the message to the next generation ..... I still remember a thread about this , here on Sciforums ....... I think from 2005 ........

To some degree you are correct , it doesn´t matter if it is facism, nazism, communism .... any other ism ... or any religion .....

2) Humans are most vulnerable at young age .... " Hitlerjugend, komsomol, religious youthcamps, all children are born muslim " .............before they get more experience and their brain mature ... so if you can protect the young ones ....... you might have a chance ........

3) It actually happens today .......... information, information, information ........... in some cases people actually are taken away from sects , and brainwashed back to society ..........