Quotation
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking"
Alfred Korzybski Quotes - The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Alfred_Korzybski/
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Right Wingers can avoid thinking by invoking absolute dogma re: Belief and Humra re: Behaviour
Conversely
The Left wing can also dispense with thinking by cynically or dismissively rejecting Tradition
The Centrist needs to weigh each case, to determine with reasonable skepticism combined with faith in the Tradition how to approach any given case.
A Centrist learns how to think and to investigate fairly while engaging his/her faculties and mentors to determine the Sh'vil Hazahav.
The rewards include liberation from a slavish mentality and flexibility to perpetuate Torah without reducing it to mindless rote and trivial pursuit. Yet a Centrist preserves Q'dushah without kowtowing to "political correctness" or the "ism du jour"
Think about it! :-)
Shalom,
RRW
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