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Think Better by Looking for and Evaluating Evidence

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Think better by looking for and evaluating evidence.

A lot of people don’t even give you evidence, but just emotional slogans. Watch out for this! You are being deceived, tricked, and led around by the nose. Slow it down, and remember to look for evidence.

Other people refuse to consider what I have to say, because it contravenes “what they know” but they fail to hear out the evidence. Remember to slow down and hear the evidence.

In other cases, people do give you evidence, but it is faulty or fragmentary. Remember to evaluate the evidence. Is it strong?

Hear more about how you — and your children– can think better by demanding and evaluating evidence.

Also, check out my “How to Tell What is True” series in “The Store.” at www.overcominglearningproblems.org

Think Better: Use Evidence

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Want to think better? What to avoid being fooled? Want to be more persuasive in your arguments? Use evidence.
This is the latest installment in our series on how to think better.
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How to Think Better: Use Definitions

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In our series on how to think better, this week we are going to talk about noticing and using and enforcing definitions. Because “learning disabled students” spend so much time coping with regular school work like decoding, they often miss the nuances of other things like deeper comprehension and social cues. As society has lost most of its literacy and academic ability, then it is more easily tricked. This will help: USE DEFINiTIONS.

I told my college students to argue from definitions. It makes a strong argument. Like this: valuation is determined by the market. This house sold for $X this year. Therefore the value is $x. Therefore that is the tax valuation.
See? Or, in a case of a student: Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. So, what a happens if we put hydrogen and oxygen together (in this special way)? Marsupials are characterized by carrying their young in their pouches. A kangaroo carries their babies in their pouch. So what kind of animal is a kangaroo? Or for a high school student, socialism is defined as redistribution of the wealth. These people are promoting a plan to tax the rich and pay that money to the poor. So, what kind of a plan is that? Is that capitalism or is that socialism?

Not surprisingly, some people want to fudge or change definitions in mid-stream. These are mostly peaceful protestors; they protest by breaking plate glass windows, stealing merchandise, and burning buildings. Only a few people have been injured. These other protestors are protesting one nation’s purported occupation by occupying the administration building at their college. They are protesting carefully targeted warfare that responded to a very large very heinous terrorist act, as genocide. So, to protest, they are calling for genocide of an entire people worldwide. To advertise that position, they are refusing entrance to class buildings to students who identify with that people group. Well know this is in the news. So, wait, what is the definition of “peaceful”, “occupation,” “genocide”? Do you see that this is at the heart of the discussion.

First, people get triggered, and instead of being able to have a useful conversation on whatever the topic is, such as a particular foriegn conflict or what student in the USA should do about it, they go off on some emotional rant based on emotional feelings somewhat, if tangentially, related. For that, see last episode. Then, they have difficult conversations, but the definitions are not agreed to and are not stable. No one can make progress like that.

Do not let other people fool you by switching definitions on you. This happens all the time in advertising. You go from wanting to be successful, offered the chance to be superior in every way because of that desire, to being a slovenly lazy ass because you don’t buy the very expensive course. Self-critique of being willing to consider alternate ways of proceeding becomes s never ending struggle session where only compliance and self-hate is permitted. It goes on and one.

What is a Christian Nationalist? Some one who is both patriotic and a Christian? Or some right = wing extremist who is a violent, racist, armed terrorist?

Argue from definitions for a strong argument. Watch how others use and mis-use definitions.

Breastfeeding and What if A Mother Can Not?

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Breastfeeding is best. We do know this. Best for health; best for baby’s brain.
But what if a mother can not breastfeed for some real reason? Back in Spring 2022, remember, we had a baby formula crisis. We seem to have recurrent “crisis” around food — let’s hold that idea. Remember, you couldn’t get that formula. But… did you ever want it? Have you read what is in commercial formula? Is there a better substitute? A professional lactation specialists is not permitted to tell you, but … I found a friend.

So, a great friend, wonderful mother, and inspiring woman let us know about her situation and how she makes formula. Not surprisingly, she got some information from the Weston-Price Foundation.

Weston-Price Foundation https://www.westonaprice.org/#gsc.tab=0 recommends healthier food. Have you heard all the claims that commercial food is being tainted or will be tainted with dangerous mRNA or bugs? Someone asked Robert Barnes, Constitutional Lawyer extraordinaire how it is that elites would taint food, since wouldn’t they kill themselves thereby. Barnes averred that elites tend not to eat commercial food. I have heard that King Charles has long invested in organic gardens on his property and that garden supplies his tables. So, Barnes’ observation on that point may be correct, and this questioner’s assumption might fail. At any rate, I and GSB have long held that it is best to eat food like God made it. It is our faith; and it has worked for us.

If you are not at the breastfedding stage, you may wish to check into the extent to which cow or goat or sheep milk is good for your child. I think you may be surprised to find out that while necessary measures in commercial process may reduce nutrition. Thus, raw milk, if you can get it, from a trust source, might be the best option. Check out our handout, which is indebted to the Weston-Price Foundation. See the sidebar to the right.

Doc Pete Chambers, who coordinated relief to West Texas ranchers, suggested that pattern analysis may indicate that intentional targeting of food production may have been the cause of the blaze.

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TEXAS FIRE – Situation Report With Doc Pete Chambers Live From TX – Rumble
Mar 1, 2024INSPIRED Mar 1, 2024 TEXAS FIRE – Situation Report With Doc Pete Chambers Live From TX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6QMMVHTpGg Gundry MD – Watch this eye-opening …

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Liquid nitrogen leak at Georgia poultry plant kills 6 | AP News
Published 7:29 PM PDT, January 28, 2021. GAINESVILLE, Ga, (AP) — A liquid nitrogen leak at a northeast Georgia poultry plant killed six people Thursday and sent 11 others to the hospital, officials said. At least three of those injured at the Foundation Food Group plant in Gainesville were reported in critical condition.

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Texas chicken farm erupted into flames on Monday night | Fox News
Jan 31, 2024The Bryan Fire Department shared images of the fire, which showed huge flames and a giant plume of smoke at Feather Crest Chicken Farm, which is owned by MPS Egg Farms. The sheriff’s office said …

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Dade City poultry farm fire likely killed 250,000 chickens, officials say
DADE CITY, Fla. – Fire crews in Pasco County said a massive fire likely killed as many as 250,000 chickens at a Dade City chicken farm after flames tore through three barns with thousands of chickens inside. Farmhands living at Cal-Maine Foods in Dade City called 911 to report the growing fire. When

https://amosmillerorganicfarm.com/ The Amos Miller case is paragimatic of the food freedom concern. Check out legal documents, and actual truth, on the 1776 Law Center site. Most conventional news outlets are predictably being stenographers for the flagrant over-reach of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. There does seem to be a coordinated attack on the Amish in general. Imagine: a movie about Amish as the mob. Right. They are pacificists. They don’t even understand the concept of lying. So, guess who is lying… again.

Get right with God… no way to argue we are not in the end times when this sort of thing going on: bioweapons mandated and advertised by the government who also censor critics. Then, not just conservative Christians in politics (who for instance pray outside of abortion clinic they see as baby killing factories) but now… Amish… for selling foods entirely lawfully. This does match the woes in the book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ.