A post from Tess Lawrie was in my inbox this morning. It started: Changing Your Mind Is A Strength Not A Weakness
I utterly agree - and much more than that. Changing your mind is actually not - most of the time, anyway - changing your mind. It’s changing the conclusions you have reached due to the information you now have.
So when someone says, I have changed my mind, this is almost certainly not true - anyway it’s not true for me.
The truth. What I held before, and still hold, is that it’s vital to take in information and evaluate it, and base what I conclude on the information I have.
I find the words, "I changed my mind," so misleading. I see this is a way language hides what has actually happened.
Of course someone may change their beliefs (on the surface or even deep-down) to agree with the crowd. Again, they didn't "change their mind." They always went with the crowd so when the opinion of the crowd changed, their belief also changed.
A huge change for this person would be a true changing of the the mind, the development of the inner strength and/or the removal or diminishment of fears, in order to stay with information.
I love logic and good thinking!!! And I’m not going to change my mind about that. Those are deep-down loves.
Quick story. One of my pastor friends tells the story of one of his college history professors who taught a biblical event that reportedly took place based on historical records and his personal investigations and had been teaching them as facts for decades.
My friend approached him after class and said he had read archeological evidence that had made headlines disputing the professor's teaching of the event. When asked why he didn't modify his teaching of the event to reflect the current findings, the professor responded if he accepted the new evidence, he would be nullifying 30 years of his career. In this case, it's clear that not changing one's mind can often affect how many others view events.
Got it Elsa.....You are correct, on "I changed my mind"...what in effect is going on would be a renewal of the mind with the addition of new data coming in. With more data in, one could also make the determination that some of the data coming in at first was distorted or 5 G warfare- lies of conspiracy.
In any case, the receiver of the behaviour, from the "renewed mind" would see it as "they changed their mind" in terms of how they are treated by the knowledge recipient/with the renewed mind, who is finally able to fleshout the comprehensive truth of the matter.
In effect the apparently "new" or corrected knowlege recipient, no longer is working with a small or inaccurate body of evidence...so they no longer abuse by psychological denial or physical abuse, "the canary in the coal mine' trying to wake them up to whatever the situation is where the abuse (psychological or physical upon victims) is occurring in). Unfortunately for the canary in the coal mine...if the coal miner was not able to get the bird to fresh air quickly, the bird expired on its mission to inform the coal miners that there was presentl danger.
Many have been injured attempting to be "canaries in the coal mine" so far. I hope many of the canaries can be rescued from the noxious gaslighting of humanity, by the demons at the WHO, who seem determined to encase all of humanity in the darkness of digitalized slavery and unhappiness, forever wounding God.
All I can hope for is that Jesus rises, and takes care of the demons at the WHO (the pandemic governance treaty over the whole world) , soon!