You decide that God exists or that the sky is blue simply because you like the practical consequences of thinking them true.
Lately the words of Pastor Marin Neimoller have been making the rounds on the internet warning of the consequences of thinking that you are safe if it's not your group that is under attack.
The fragmentation of philosophy and its consequent separation from theology is, according to Rosmini, a necessary consequence of sensationalist thinking.
You cannot really mean that, yet it is the consequence of your line of thinking.Sir Brian Crowe LondonSIR – I am shocked by the Franco-German response to the result of the Irish vote.
The consequence of this line of thinking for moral theory is that we have a test by which to determine whether we have realized ourselves in a particular case: namely, have we arrived at a greater unity, which means fewer felt contradictions or explicit contradictions in our desires, our dispositions and the like?
Then again, he is said to be an Empiricist (although he says himself that he is not), and his theories of the syllogism and of mathematics are constantly used to demonstrate the fatal consequences of this way of thinking.
It showed me the importance of thinking about consequences.
The lifestyle change strategies of thinking about consequences, working toward goals, thinking of oneself as sober, clean recreation, regular relaxation, avoiding temptations, not carrying much money, living with clean people, seeking social support, spiritual involvement, keeping busy, and health activities were also associated with less cocaine use.
If it's any comfort, Reyna concludes that this distorted judgment is the ironic consequence of a cognitively advanced style of thinking, an intuitive style perhaps more suitable for finding meaning in the murky world of spies and counterspies.
