Sunday, February 26, 2012
Chapter 4 Post 3
The concept I found interesting for this week was the Defensiveness concept. The book describes as "a somewhat hostile, emotional state which causes people to either partially or totally reject incoming messages, and other stimuli which they perceive as being incorrect or contradictory to their point of view. People know there beliefs and it is when there beliefs get challenge is usually when people get defensive about others are preaching. For example; I was raised a catholic and so Catholic's believe that God created us thru Adam and Eve. We are taught not to have other God's besides Him. I was furthering my education; in science class we learned that we are mammals, and we came about all that. Later that day after school, I was asked my parents about that; and they said we are created from God, so are animals and everything. My point is that if you get two people who firmly believe in there view (i.e. a catholic and a scientist) there are going to be a defensiveness towards each other because what each of them believe in.
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Wow, the way that you related this concept to yourself really put this reading into perspective, I think that in our world today people become very defensive toward what they believe, because they have a strong feeling from that. I think that this "block" forces many people to be blind to other things in the world today. I think that we just allowed a little bit more listening in our own lives we would be more accustom to hearing what other people have to say. Good Post!
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