The weekly show where I answer viewer questions based on what is left for me in the comments section of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at AskChrisShelton@gmail.com. This week, the questions answered are:Read More »Critical Q&A #121
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Just some notes I made when making this video:
After last night’s election, I imagine that there’s a lot of soul searching going on in this country. There certainly has been here. Last night and this morning I was really despondent but I’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking and given the magnitude of what just happened, I didn’t want to just post another usual video without taking some time to comment about our Presidential election. I’m not going to rant and rave. I am trying to treat this whole thing as a learning experience and I think there might be some useful or helpful things I could say that might contribute to the kinds of conversations that we have here and more importantly, to critical thinking.Read More »About the Election…
I was able to contribute to a presentation about the dangers of Scientology which I’d like to share here.
There’s a bit of back-story about this which starts with studies on the subject of cognitive dissonance. This is a psychological term which is often used to describe what Scientologists and many other members of mass movements do when confronted with opposing information about their beliefs. Cognitive dissonance simply means “the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.” (Leon Festinger from A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance)Read More »Waking Up from Scientology