Saturday, December 23, 2017

A Gift for Them that Would also Benefit all Mankind

   The boxes underneath the Christmas tree for the homeless, for the prisoners, and for the immigrants might have gone a long ways toward solving their problems.
   I do wonder about the gift for the mentally disillusioned, however. Selected at the last minute, without much advanced thought, did it provide much in the way of solution, or was it just a gift for the sake of giving a gift?
   I must first tell you what is going on. It is Christmas Day, 2017. Gifts for each group of needy people have been boxed and place under the tree, and are being opened. Yes, this is an attempt to solve a great number of the world's problems. The idea is to come up with answers to each group's problems, and then to box them up and place them under the tree as presents.
   Let's proceed inside, then, to where all those with mental disconnections are opening their present. The gifts for the homeless, and for the prisoners and for some others have come with much advanced thought. Not so for those with mental differences. I'm even struggling for what to call this group, not having thought that through in the past.
  They pick up the box, tear off the wrapping, and inside? Two gifts. One is the gift of choice and the other the gift of understanding -- both to be understood by others and for them to understand what is happening to themselves. These are marvelous gifts, despite coming from a last-day, last-minute dash to the store.
  Let those with mental situations choose for themselves whether they will return to reality. If they remain in disillusionment, bear with them, be understanding. If they choose to come out of their conditions, celebrate that with them. Realize that even as it is with so many things, there will be relapses. For some of these, their condition is much the same as that of those with substance addictions. Understand that. Theirs, too, is an addiction; It is an escape. Just as a person seeks relief in drugs and such, so a person can find relief in separating from reality.
  The Christmas present also included a map, showing how the human mind goes about making decisions. In situation such-and-such, it will reach this decision, and so forth. Never had the thought process been mapped before. Among the principles? One, The mind selects answers based on what will best please the person. We believe what we want to believe, in other words. Two, The mind often locks on the first information in, becoming biased toward that viewpoint at the exclusion of others. Three, We believe others and seek to please them by what we decide.
   If the person with mental situations can understand how the thinking process goes, they can understand where they are going astray, and thus have better choice in deciding if they want to change their thinking process.
   I have said I have not given much advanced thought to this Christmas gift. Actually, I have often thought on how the thinking process should be mapped out. But, I have not thought of making the map just to benefit those with mental disconnections. (Although I have noticed we all have some of the same mental disconnects that those with mental challenges have.)  I think it would be great to have the map, period. All humanity would benefit from it. I have thought to try to map the decision-making process out, but have never taken enough time to really sit down and do it. Anyone could make this map. We've all lived on earth and can analyze how we arrive at decisions. We can look at others and understand what is behind their decisions.
  With mapping out the thinking process, we could predict what we will do and what decisions we will make in each situation. It would be a break-through thing in the history of man to have the thought process modeled and mapped out.
   Such a Christmas present. I think it a marvelous one.

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