Everyone looks at the world through some kind of personal filter, not only christians. It's called your world view.
Sounds like that's what you mean in your 3rd paragraph when you say the "perceived framework of your reality."
You have one too, you may just not be as conscious of it or have consciously thought about why you accept certain premises as a part of it.
FWIW, the matrix certainly shows this in that neo's entire understanding of the world is radically changed... he has to decide whether to accept that or not though.... and Cypher is willing to suspend belief and opt to live the comfortable lie.
World views are pretty deeply felt and often not thought-out. And people can refuse to accept information that doesn't fit in theirs, or that makes them reassess their world view.
There is a sf short story to the effect that a physics prof brings various people forward in time, including Shakespeare. Wil takes a modern class about his own writings, but has to go back to his own time.... he was horribly humiliated because he had flunked...
good points. everyone is so busy being superior (assuming that *they* are far too smart/paranoid to be taken in) that they fail to think about what this says about the cons and about personalities.
On the superiority issue, it'd be interesting to have someone run this study on slashdot readers, see how many of them get suckered, then post the results... with names... might take a few people down a peg or too...
Ed Foster covers this too, a bit. I think he mentioned it more than once in his column, The Gripe Line on InfoWorld.
Here is the one I found:
Cost of 'free' service.
Poke back through the archives for more...
Slashdot Mirror
Have one... it's called a phone...
Everyone looks at the world through some kind of personal filter, not only christians. It's called your world view. Sounds like that's what you mean in your 3rd paragraph when you say the "perceived framework of your reality." You have one too, you may just not be as conscious of it or have consciously thought about why you accept certain premises as a part of it. FWIW, the matrix certainly shows this in that neo's entire understanding of the world is radically changed... he has to decide whether to accept that or not though.... and Cypher is willing to suspend belief and opt to live the comfortable lie. World views are pretty deeply felt and often not thought-out. And people can refuse to accept information that doesn't fit in theirs, or that makes them reassess their world view.
There is a sf short story to the effect that a physics prof brings various people forward in time, including Shakespeare. Wil takes a modern class about his own writings, but has to go back to his own time.... he was horribly humiliated because he had flunked...
good points. everyone is so busy being superior (assuming that *they* are far too smart/paranoid to be taken in) that they fail to think about what this says about the cons and about personalities.
On the superiority issue, it'd be interesting to have someone run this study on slashdot readers, see how many of them get suckered, then post the results... with names... might take a few people down a peg or too...
Ed Foster covers this too, a bit. I think he mentioned it more than once in his column, The Gripe Line on InfoWorld. Here is the one I found: Cost of 'free' service. Poke back through the archives for more...