He added: "Given that we're human, we already want dopamine".
They just dismiss the idea that the divine could possibly want anything for us except for what we already want for ourselves.
…This ends up putting a kind of Christian stamp on narcissism, where the things we already want to do, we tell ourselves, are things that God wants us to do, too".
This false sense of knowing — not a new problem, but perhaps a newly pressing one — has been made worse by the ease with which we find Web sites devoted to telling us what we already want to hear and already suspect is true.
We have an innate capacity to notice the evidence that most supports what we already want to believe (Nickerson 1998).
What the media air or publish is not about what we 'have to know' to be an 'informed public,' it's about giving us what we already want to see or read about.
When the temples in our life provide nothing but excuses for that which we already want to do, and when they fail to sensitize us to those beyond the temple's walls, as was apparently the case in ancient Israel, the collapse of those temples is a reasonable, if tragic, result.
When we listen to an authentic political leader, we discover what we want (or, rather, what we always, already wanted without knowing it).
Some already wanted to talk policy.
The Lorne Meeting Lorne would claim later that he already wanted me on the show.
