You Can Learn to Think With Precision
Created by Jimmie Burroughs
There is a story which has been circulating on the Internet for a period of time and it is concerning Joshua's missing day of the Bible. The story first showed up in a book created by Harold Hill and made public in 1969 about a situation that purportedly happened at NASA space center. Scientists allegedly discovered there was a missing day in their calculations and a Christian on the staff told them about the missing day in the Bible which answered the question for them.
This story was sent to me by a friend under the title: "This will give all you scientist out there something to think about." I imagine a large amount of folk just assumed it on its face worth without thinking. Precision thinking on the other hand would take time to do some research to determine the truth.
Many individuals today appear to have often lost the power to think critically and with precision. When you apply the specific science of arithmetic to the Harold Hill story, it breaks down, because in order for NASA to uncover a missing day would necessitate a knowledge that goes back past Joshua's missing day to the definite instant that the earth started its first revolution around the sun and no-one knows that except God himself. For Christians to take any notice to such stories is nonessential because we have the truth of the Bible to stand on which hasn't ever been demonstrated to be untrue.
We do not need to get a Noah's ark or the Ark of the Covenant or anything else. We accept God's word on the bases of faith. Not a blind faith because there is plenty of proof from fulfilled prediction, history and science to certify the scripture beyond any doubt, but trust in God is the bedrock of Christian belief.
The ability to think with precision is something that really must be learned for the main part. It takes an active mind. A lazy mind just accepts whatever in typically thought without testing it to see if it is valid.
All though history man has depended on science to lead their beliefs. The difficulty with that is that science is constantly changing and cannot be depended on for comprehensive truth. The science of the 1400s, during the time of Columbus, was the world was flat. Navigational instruments were designed on the grounds that a ship could sail right off the edge into who can say what.
We all know better today but they did not. They might have if they read and thought the Bible which says "He sitteth on the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22) that means a globe, not a flat geometrical circle as in geometry. I've always had the feeling that Christopher Columbus knew and thought that verse of Scripture. However, Columbus is a real instance of precision thinking and not depending on what is usually considered the actual facts.
Accepting everything by unquestioning trust is the lazy and easy way out; it needs no thinking. Anyone that took some time to research the effect of drugs on the body and what's costs in terms of money and loss of health over time would not dare use them , if they had a brain in their head. But instead of thinking with precision someone often yields to someone's suggestion to try drugs and feel the sense that they give and blindly are led on to the slaughter like a dumb and uninformed sheep.
There is a suitable name for those who fail to think with precision, "sheeple". The Urban Dictionary defines sheeple as,"Folk unable to think for themselves; followers; lemmings; those with no cognitive abilities of their own." Sheeple are those who have the mind of a sheep and are led around or driven right into harm's way.
To be well placed to think with precision requires 3 things:
1. Study which produces knowledge
2. Discipline and bravery to Decide for yourself
3. Wisdom, the ability use knowledge to make right calls
Study which produces knowledge:
Ignorance can never think with precision any longer than a car can run without gas. It takes an active and dynamic mind to gain information. Lazy minds are content watching passive entertainment on TV. Active minds want to learn everything possible. While having information is. A unreserved for precision thinking, it isn't all that is required.
Discipline and bravery to Decide for yourself:
An undisciplined mind with no courage is sucked into dumb things. For instance, somebody asserts ' "Hey man try this it will give you a high like you never had before." "Duh, OK if you assert so let me try it." Discipline and courage says, "Oh yes, what is it?" "That is not important just try it." "You think I'm stupid; get away from me."
I don't accept things because somebody says it regardless of whether it is a famous person who is supposed to know what they're talking about. I need solid evidence before I make a decision that affects me, my health or my future. That takes discipline and courage infrequently to go in the opposite direction from the crowd.
Wisdom to make right decisions:
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to make the best possible decision. If you know all the downsides of using drugs; you know the body needs more and more as time rolls by to reach the same high; you know that a drug habit gets astronomically and outrageously costly with time; you know that drugs will at last destroy your body, your relationships and your future, but you still decide to utilise them anyhow; that's making a decision directly opposite of knowledge where no wisdom at all is utilized. Wisdom does not make stupid choices!
It takes all three of the above collaborating to think with precision.
There is a story which has been circulating on the Internet for a period of time and it is concerning Joshua's missing day of the Bible. The story first showed up in a book created by Harold Hill and made public in 1969 about a situation that purportedly happened at NASA space center. Scientists allegedly discovered there was a missing day in their calculations and a Christian on the staff told them about the missing day in the Bible which answered the question for them.
This story was sent to me by a friend under the title: "This will give all you scientist out there something to think about." I imagine a large amount of folk just assumed it on its face worth without thinking. Precision thinking on the other hand would take time to do some research to determine the truth.
Many individuals today appear to have often lost the power to think critically and with precision. When you apply the specific science of arithmetic to the Harold Hill story, it breaks down, because in order for NASA to uncover a missing day would necessitate a knowledge that goes back past Joshua's missing day to the definite instant that the earth started its first revolution around the sun and no-one knows that except God himself. For Christians to take any notice to such stories is nonessential because we have the truth of the Bible to stand on which hasn't ever been demonstrated to be untrue.
We do not need to get a Noah's ark or the Ark of the Covenant or anything else. We accept God's word on the bases of faith. Not a blind faith because there is plenty of proof from fulfilled prediction, history and science to certify the scripture beyond any doubt, but trust in God is the bedrock of Christian belief.
The ability to think with precision is something that really must be learned for the main part. It takes an active mind. A lazy mind just accepts whatever in typically thought without testing it to see if it is valid.
All though history man has depended on science to lead their beliefs. The difficulty with that is that science is constantly changing and cannot be depended on for comprehensive truth. The science of the 1400s, during the time of Columbus, was the world was flat. Navigational instruments were designed on the grounds that a ship could sail right off the edge into who can say what.
We all know better today but they did not. They might have if they read and thought the Bible which says "He sitteth on the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22) that means a globe, not a flat geometrical circle as in geometry. I've always had the feeling that Christopher Columbus knew and thought that verse of Scripture. However, Columbus is a real instance of precision thinking and not depending on what is usually considered the actual facts.
Accepting everything by unquestioning trust is the lazy and easy way out; it needs no thinking. Anyone that took some time to research the effect of drugs on the body and what's costs in terms of money and loss of health over time would not dare use them , if they had a brain in their head. But instead of thinking with precision someone often yields to someone's suggestion to try drugs and feel the sense that they give and blindly are led on to the slaughter like a dumb and uninformed sheep.
There is a suitable name for those who fail to think with precision, "sheeple". The Urban Dictionary defines sheeple as,"Folk unable to think for themselves; followers; lemmings; those with no cognitive abilities of their own." Sheeple are those who have the mind of a sheep and are led around or driven right into harm's way.
To be well placed to think with precision requires 3 things:
1. Study which produces knowledge
2. Discipline and bravery to Decide for yourself
3. Wisdom, the ability use knowledge to make right calls
Study which produces knowledge:
Ignorance can never think with precision any longer than a car can run without gas. It takes an active and dynamic mind to gain information. Lazy minds are content watching passive entertainment on TV. Active minds want to learn everything possible. While having information is. A unreserved for precision thinking, it isn't all that is required.
Discipline and bravery to Decide for yourself:
An undisciplined mind with no courage is sucked into dumb things. For instance, somebody asserts ' "Hey man try this it will give you a high like you never had before." "Duh, OK if you assert so let me try it." Discipline and courage says, "Oh yes, what is it?" "That is not important just try it." "You think I'm stupid; get away from me."
I don't accept things because somebody says it regardless of whether it is a famous person who is supposed to know what they're talking about. I need solid evidence before I make a decision that affects me, my health or my future. That takes discipline and courage infrequently to go in the opposite direction from the crowd.
Wisdom to make right decisions:
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to make the best possible decision. If you know all the downsides of using drugs; you know the body needs more and more as time rolls by to reach the same high; you know that a drug habit gets astronomically and outrageously costly with time; you know that drugs will at last destroy your body, your relationships and your future, but you still decide to utilise them anyhow; that's making a decision directly opposite of knowledge where no wisdom at all is utilized. Wisdom does not make stupid choices!
It takes all three of the above collaborating to think with precision.
About the Author:
About the author: Jimmie Burroughs is a motivational speaker and author who has been concerned in teaching Christian Personal Development for at least 30 years. He's a dedicated disciple of Jesus Christ, and considers helping others to become their very best through personal growth is his first focus in life. His internet site contains over 600 articles on preparing yourself for success thru private development and the things that go with personal development. His writing centres on the truth rather than fluff that just teases the ears.