[MD] Buddhism's s/o

[Mary]

Hi Joe,

Nice story about the choir.  

> Imho a child will become convinced of what he is convinced.

The threshold for becoming convinced seems lower for children than adults.
I wonder if this is because children crave some static latches?  

> Society is very chaotic.

And we all seek order in our personal Universe.

The problem seems to be that once we make a static latch onto a belief it
requires a lot of energy to overcome inertia to reject that belief in favor
of a new one.

So it seems to make a difference what order you acquire your beliefs in.

Does it ever bother you that there are children in your church?  

Could they be getting indoctrinated into a set of beliefs about which they
are not capable of making a fair evaluation?

That kind of sucks.

Mary

On Behalf Of Joseph Maurer
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:13 PM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Buddhism's s/o
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/1/10 12:48 PM, "Mary" <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > My question centers around the nature of belief.  How do we become
> > convinced?  What is necessary to achieve the state of being convinced
> of
> > anything?  It seems much easier to convince a child of anything than
> to
> > convince an adult.
> <snip>
> 
> Hi Mary and All,
> 
> Imho a child will become convinced of what he is convinced.  Society is
> very
> chaotic.  I am a singer in a Church choir.  To create an atmosphere of
> openness I must be open. I have a loud bass voice, and I don¹t like to
> sing
> melody but rather be spontaneous and create a noise (hopefully
> harmonious)
> that allows people to feel good in a crowd setting.  The harmonious
> choir is
> more successful than not in creating an atmosphere of quietness.  To
> hear a
> Church with about 200 people in it remain totally quiet for 7 minutes
> or so
> after we finish a hymn while the rest of the service continues is quite
> remarkable.  Most of the time the shuffling in place after most hymns
> is
> quite loud.  But there are those moments when all, including small
> children,
> are quiet.  Small favors!
> 
> Joe
> 
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