Assumptions, assuming… the not seeing beyond the cover
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life…
The biggest, I say, were the result of this cognitive bias we all have. Making assumptions based on insufficient data.
Assumption is jumping from seeing something and its meaning… without looking further, or looking again.
Given that astuteness is the exact opposite: making the correct interpretation of phenomena or data, assumption is the sign of stupidity.
And I have been guilty of that.
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I am running, again and again, into the same barrier with every group, with every person, their lack of faith.
This is especially true for people who had a religious upbringing.
Religion teaches you to ask your deity to do things for you… and your deity doesn’t.
Whether there is a deity or not is everybody’s guess… but one thing is for sure: no deity has ever done anything for anyone. no matter what anyone says. So no wonder, all the religious folks with rare exception, are disappointed. They asked and asked, and expected, and got nothing.
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