Thinking with your "gut" considered harmful.

[gulliver]

A lot people think with their gut. When their "thinking" is challenged, they feel personally attacked. The Bushies take advantage of this.

Gut thinking is not clear thinking. It is the kind of thinking that a bass does when it looks at a lure.

I feel sorry for all of the poor bass -- some of our fellow citizens. They swallowed Bush's brightly colored, teasingly played plastic lure "hook line and sinker." What was their crime that they are now being filleted? They were just hungry and not too bright. They didn't know any better. They just wanted to be good bass, thinking with their heart, their soul, their gut -- everything but their brain.

It isn't fair that you can't survive on gut thinking any more. The marketers are onto it. Every single orifice in our mental armor has six salespeople burrowing into it looking for blood.

It isn't fair that you can't survive on gut thinking any more, but that's life.

[DebJ]

1. did you say 'nut thinking'? squirrels for *

[gulliver]

2. LOL!

:)

[FloridaPat]

3. I have two Iranian friends who lived in Israel for decades and now

are here in the states. We all belong to the same church group. When we meet someone new, all the Americans automatically like everyone. Every so often the Iranians have a "gut feeling" that there is something wrong with this person, and they are always right.

Yes, somehow we've lost the ability to see evil. One example is children. They have been taught that adults are right all the time and they should obey them. Now that there are so many perverts taking advantage of this, people are starting to teach them differently. I hadn't thought of the marketing people though. Will have to ponder that.

[gulliver]

5. Evil has adapted. The old defenses don't work.

E.g., terrorism.

[Don_G]

4. Screw The Bass

I hunt them in their native environment instead of patieltly "waiting" to nibble on "my" bait...hence my SCUBA training.

I'm a more pro-active than re-active and I've never seen the need to wait until something happens where you can take advantage of it. It happens---all the time---but you're better prepared to take advantage of a situation when you go after the suckers rather than to sit and wait outside "their" environment until you get a nibble.

[gulliver]

6. An excellent lesson.

Are you a motivational speaker? Your post makes me want to get up from my keyboard and go for a run ... then track down some suckers.

Er, I mean ... field some opportunities. ;-)

[ibegurpard]

7. My gut tells me that Kerry/Edwards is a good ticket

despite the fact that I didn't like Kerry and Edwards wasn't doing anything for me. Something about them teamed up, though, makes me feel okay.
:shrug:

[gulliver]

8. Mine too.

I like the ticket on all levels. I made another donation to Kerry the minute I heard. I would have preferred Clark, but now that I hear Edwards speak, I am equally happy with him.

[tibbiit]

9. Hey that is great thoughts re gut thinking

Thinking with the gut is survival/reptile thinking. There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking when it is teamed up with its co-brains as nature intended. The gut will get you out of truly tight spots when needed, giving you time to re-think etc. However when its your only mode of thought, (because you have turned off your higher functions with alcohol, drugs, any/all fundementalist religions, fanatic belief systems etc) you end up with the entire Bush Admin.

The legitimate Fear induced by 9/11 kicked in survival brain mode in all/most of us... Many of us have re-thought and re-analyzed this event (many sooner than later). Bush-Co are still operating Reptiles in every action they do. We have seen this seep into every corner of what was once America. 9/11 just gave the already reptile leaning asshats the impetous and legitamacy to go reptile all the time for ever.

They are truly dispicable, no way beyond that. Words cant express what I feel, and think in my gut, and in my head and heart about these perfect HUMAN Demons.
tib

[achtung_circus]

10. This is basically a hunch

and a hunch is a decision reached using information you didn't know you possessed and thought processes you don't know are working. If you get a hunch, think about it consciously. You may be able to logically reach the same decision.

Hunches are useful, they are most useful when logic is used in conjunction with them.

[Malva Zebrina]

11. perceptions change over time and what is in is in

at one time thinking with your gut, (intuition) was perfectly legitimate and as respected as thingking with your right brain.


There is room for every human reaction and the secret is that the gut reactor person can add to the emotionally detached right brained thinker--in other words we need the mix of all types of thinkers in order to progress and evolve.

my two cents