Is there such a thing as "willful blindess"?
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Romans 1-2 discusses this issue, and so does 2 Peter 3.  Jesus addresses it in John 6 and a number of other passages.  The New Testament doesn't 'almost' accuse people of being willfully blind.  It *does* accuse people of being willfully blind...but not just those that aren't Christians.  More on that in a second.  \n\nYour idea that people might ignore small truths but not great ones is simply not true to human nature.  The more we want one thing to be true, the more we ignore anything that might convince us otherwise.  Psychologists call it 'confirmation bias.'  It's self-deception (i.e., willful ignorance) by any name, and we're more likely to employ it on things that really matter than we are on trivial things.\n\nSince there is nothing that could possibly have a greater impact on how you live your life than your beliefs about your ultimate origin, nature, and destiny (and the moral implications involved in thoes issues), it's safe to conclude that on precisely those issues, the human tendency to self-deception is greatest.\n\nIf it makes you feel any better, James 1:21ff applies the same concept of willful amnesia/self-deception to Christians who aren't living the way they should, so it's not like the New Testament only applies the concept to non-Christians.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-blind
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Whenver I feel myself pulling the measuring stick from my back pocket, I try to remind myself of the following scripture:\n\n"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye" (Matthew 7:1-5)\n\nIt's hard, but .. if you recite this from time to time. it's helps me to slow down on judging others.
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another example of blind cultures
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well using the expedential rays from the illegitimate force overhead i would have to define the tiddlywinks champion my left eye.\nhope that answers the aforementioned antidisestablishmentarianism. and sucks ur middle head
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The letter W\nBecause it makes ill will
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Not always. I know a blind guy who only wants to date hot girls. He has his buddies scope them out for him, and they don't trick him or hook him up with ugly chicks. He also said he doesn't want to date fat girls. He feels of their hands and wrists to see if they "feel" skinny enough. \nWhen he told me this, I was like WTF dude YOU ARE BLIND!!!\nI don't understand it. I think it's all about the image of having an attractive girl.
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It's easy to say "I'm blind to handicaps", but I don't think it's honest.\n\nYes, I notice the handicap, but I also look beyond it to the person to see what's going on with them.  The better contact I make with them, the less their "challenge" challenges me.
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FOR WESMEISTER:  Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.\n                                                 Proverbs 26:4
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Absolutely correct.\nMoral of d story: Love is not only blind but also weak in Maths.
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Once upon a time, one clever man said:\n"Who wants - looks for the ways; who does not want - looks for reasons"...\nYou *must* win the war against your laziness, or you will be unhappy in your life.
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I have not seen it fail !\nBut those who do not believe wont believe even if they saw it with their own eyes its something to do with mental blockade which infact can be remedied too using homeopathic medicines !\nTake Care and God Bless !
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I know it's not very similar, but that little story you have above reminded me of a short story i read several years ago. It's about wishes and how they can go very wrong if selfish and vague.\nThe Monkey's Paw\nhttp://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/mnkyspaw.htm
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Dang--I guess I have seen too many Star Trek episodes.  A really good example of breaking the will (well almost) is the one with Piccard and the nasty Cardassian.  There are 3 lights in the room.  The cardassian tortures Picard, says he's been abandoned, etc., and he says there are 4 lights.  Piccard begins to loose it.  He is about to asnwer "4 lights" when Riker shows up and saves his butt.  When you break someone's will, you are in complete control of what they believe, wheter it has any bearing in reality at all.  Breaking someone's will is totaly evil and vile, and consequently it happens in the marines all the time.  The military breaks you down and reprograms who you are in the image of what they need you to be.  It involves mass humiliation and degredation.  It involves sleep deprivation, cleaning toilets, being given impossible tasks where they know you will fail.  Any spirit of challenge in the person, the person's will to exert your own personal reality on the world is crushed.  Then you are just putty in the hands of the people in authority.  (Note: that's why they must get really young guys to join up.  Trying to brain-wash a 30 year old to have the totally blind devotion to the commanding officer--it would never happen.)\n\nAfter you hve been broken down and reformed in the military image, you get to dish out that same punishment on the lower ranks.  It is kind of sicko, but I guess it works.....
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are you blind ,if not drive around.
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I believe that spiritual blindness can not only lead you far astray but can determine how you will live your life now and forever. If there is no belief and if there is no hope, What is there left here for us to consider. When our Lord comes and those who have been blinded for their own ignorance, will fine a pill to be bitter. If there is no belief of our Lords coming, what a lonesome life one might lead. But if you fall between the cracks and have never study or learned the teachings, then my words you should heed. Start to study our lords words and teachings, The truth is there for your eyes to see. Ask questions when you don't understand and no that our Lord had to bleed. His blood was drained from his body so as we might live. This tragedy was and is the greatest gift His Father had to give.
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I do believe so. My mom had it. Her doctor advised her to close her good eye with one hand, and 'exercise' the lazy eye by focusing on objects.