{"id":2146,"date":"2012-05-14T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-08-24T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:19:30","slug":"what-would-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/what-would-you-do","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shhh … don’t talk while I’m feeding!<\/p><\/div>\n

“What would Jesus do?”<\/p>\n

I’ve heard it a gazillion times – the real meaning being, “reconsider your own behaviors and beliefs and do as I want you to do” or “Do as you’ve been told by your [Christian Church] authorities.”<\/p>\n

There are many such sayings that appear on the outside to mean what they say but instead carry hidden messages or meanings intended to coerce or to reinforce prior conditioning or to take advantage of common thinking errors (see http:\/\/powerstates.com\/10-cognitive-thinking-errors<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Any time a sentence begins with “you should…”, or you’re supposed to…”, or includes a call to some authority (“main-stream scientists say”), the real meaning of the sentence is obscured by preconception and conditioning.<\/p>\n

Why can’t we simply say what we mean?<\/p>\n

Ah, and there’s the rub. We all too often don’t KNOW what we really mean! Or we are too frightened, too embarrassed, too ashamed, or too emotionally charged to say what we mean. Sometimes saying what we mean will hurt someone we don’t wish to hurt (called “ecology” – meaning we will resist behaviors we think will harm someone we care about including ourselves) so we either don’t say it or we disguise it.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the why’s we THINK apply to our disguised utterances, the result is generally the same: an emotional feed!<\/p>\n

What would YOU do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What would Jesus do?” I’ve heard it a gazillion times – the real meaning being, “reconsider your own behaviors and beliefs and do as I want you to do” or “Do as you’ve been told by your [Christian Church] authorities.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,80,81,82],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-feeding","tag-cognitive-thinking","tag-hidden-messages","tag-main-stream","tag-preconception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}