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From a book I am reading on how the mind works...

"The reason people who are exposed to the same external stimuli do not remember and react the same way as each other is because everyone deletes, distorts, and generalises differently based on their own metaprograms, values, beliefs, memories, and decisions."

I'll avoid defining all of that, but you can read it in "Neuro linguistic Programming for Dummies" or ask for clarification.

Question is... do you agree, that your beliefs influence how you interpret and react? It's one of the key learnings I had from believing in Christ for salvation. It's instramental in all solutions to problems asked on GAG... your pre-existing beliefs, influence the outcome.

This is fundamental to how I see things working and I find it to be true. I wonder if everyone thinks that.

Im on the last chapter of a book im reading... Book 24 of the Iliad... a 3000 year old drama. And a line stood out to me: "he was a young man, the age when the beard first sprouts. The most handsome age for a man". In other words he was like 18