History and the Topics We Can't Discuss in Public Anymore: A Memoir and Journey to Understanding Those Taught Beliefs of Religion, Politics, and Nutrition.
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From the Publisher
" The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"
--ALVIN TOFFLER
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten second hand, and without examination"
--MARK TWAIN
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause of a withdrawing from a friend"
--THOMAS JEFFERSON
"When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer"
--STEVIE WONDER
"I have come to realize that understanding things is not really that tough. If we wonder and wander often, then the gift of knowledge and understanding will come. I learned that if I tried to chase after understanding, it would always elude me, like trying to catch a bouncing and dodging butterfly. But if you just sit there quietly, it will just softly land on your shoulder"
--JAMES FAULDER
My Journey to Understanding My Beliefs
We all must question our taught beliefs so that we learn to understand the basis for them. This book is a reflection of my journey to understanding those topics of Religion, Politics, and Nutrition, because if I am to justify, defend, or base behavior upon those beliefs, I must understand why I am doing it.
Many of us are led into our beliefs by others and we never seemed to ever question their origin. We simply just accepted them and then they become part of our personal identity. Once that happens, we then view challenges to our belief system as a personal attack on us, and then disagreers become our despised enemy. To understand the origins of my beliefs, I realized that I must explore the basis for them, just to make sure they were rational and a product of my learning. This book is a reflection of my personal learning process. It is not a blueprint for any universal truth. Your journey to understanding may be entirely different, and neither of us is right or wrong.
DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?
RELIGION:
"[Religion] tells people what to think and do, gratifying their reluctance to make an effort, or take the risk, of achieving self-understanding.."
--Anthony C. Grayling
POLITICS:
"Every mind should be true to itself -- should think, investigate, and conclude for itself"
--Robert Ingersoll
NUTRITION and LONGEVITY:
"What is being referred to as Blue Zone research is not scientific at all--it is storytelling. Profiting from such storytelling is not all that bad, except that it has created this gigantic wave of attention where health and lifestyle magazine authors and Registered Dietitians are now riding its wake and citing the author's storytelling as scientific fact that was based upon accepted scientific research"
--James Faulder
