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Sometimes a vague subtlety strikes a person's fancy... and it resonates.
Then, for some reason or to appease some rational or irrational need, it develops into a notion...  then an idea...  then a concept...  then a factual belief...  and then it becomes a believed fact.
And sooner or later a person has constructed a belief structure from a vague subtlety that he will use to provide a basis for making important decisions.  It guides and instructs him whenever an apparently relevant subject is brought into the general context.
You have assembled belief structures about friends, work, religion, and morePeople have assembled belief structures regarding you.  Each of us has had many tossed our way.  There are many about nutrition, health, pollution, the environment, and government.  There are many about Thomas Jefferson, Clinton, George W. Bush, Thomas Edison, and others.
How many of these vagaries, notions, and wives tales are true?  Are there aspects of any of them true?
When has relying on these mechanisms for guidance ever provided accurate instruction and sent you in an optimal direction?
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