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Since 1973 over one billion children all over the world have grown into adults.
They've been taught to believe in the fairy tale that we landed men on the Moon. I hope this
book will one day banish forever this fanciful tale and relegate the story of NASA's Moon
landings to the realm of fraud where it belongs.
Over a decade ago I wrote a column called, "One Man's Opinion", for my local North
Jersey Mensa Newsletter "IMPRINT". At the local level, Mensa is primarily a social
organization, but the qualification for membership is to score in the top 2 percentile of the
population on standard intelligence tests. The North Jersey group used to put out a good
newsletter, but I soon discovered that whenever I attacked some sacred cow, particularly a
scientific sacred cow, vitriolic knee-jerk responses were triggered from people who were
certifiably "intelligent". I finally came to realize that my fellow Mensans were just as subject
to failures in logic as are the rest of humankind, myself included.
Our (what I call) emotional belief system, or "EBS" is the sum total of our inner philosophy.
This evolves from the sum total of our life experiences. Our personal philosophies
are basically emotional because much of what we believe is not necessarily logical. Indeed,
it may even be contradictory, but nonetheless we make our decisions and govern our lives
accordingly.
Our EBS is implanted in our early childhood by cultural osmosis and authoritarian
pronouncements. We are "imprinted" by our society's opinions in the same way a baby duck
is imprinted by the first moving object it sees after hatching. Much of this imprinting is due
to religion, which is one of the great molders of societies. Then add our early education:
what we are taught (or not taught), and our parents' influence. This is the process by which
we eventually come to know "right from wrong, good from evil, success from failure, and
stool from Shinola shoe polish.
Have you ever wondered how a man from a third-world country wearing a pair of tattered
trousers can be so pleased with himself, even though his ribs stand out from hunger
How can he feel so fine knowing that the great number of children he has sired will be as
dirt-poor as he is The reason is that in his society the very act of siring marks him the
"success" he is. Logical No! Emotionally satisfying Yes!
Our EBS is reinforced by education, most of which takes place before our critical faculties
develop or our logic centers mature. Our imprinted opinions can vary from era to era,
from country to country, or from county to county. These influences cause our philosophies
to vary according to sex, religion, status, occupation, or even physical and mental attributes.
As I said before, EBS represents the sum total of our lives. No two lives are identical, so the
fringe layers of our inner philosophies are as individualistic as our fingerprints. But unlike
our prints, which are fixed at birth, our personal philosophy can and does change somewhat
as a response to each day's new experiences being filtered and compared against the old.
For example, as a member of a modern, mostly Christian society in the USA, we are
imprinted with the Biblical admonition, "Thou shalt not kill!" However, in warrior societies,
young men train hard for the opportunity to chop up their live enemies. Most women today
deplore violence, but in warrior societies the women seek out the warriors. I use this
dramatic example to deliberately emphasize that the only real difference in people, anywhere
and anytime, is to be found in their EBS.
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