Are You a Person With Character?

By Reg Scheepers

I racked my brains trying to come up with a way to explain what I mean when I say character. What is a person’s character? When I say character in this post, I’m not referring to someone’s nature or their personality.

Here’s what I mean when I refer to character:

“Your character is to your inner being what your skeleton is to your physical being. It’s the framework on which all your progress is supported”

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The Danger of Assumptions

By Reg Scheepers

I really don’t know why I think of things like this, but last night I was pondering the subject of conspiracies.

I like conspiracy theorists. I like the way their brains work. I think they keep people honest, cause they’re doubting Thomases by nature. They keep it real.

But as I was lying in bed, I realised that conspiracy theorists lack credibility because they make two mistakes in forming and communicating their theories.

The human mind has been designed to be on the look out for patterns, whether something as simple as patterns of clouds in the sky forming familiar shapes, or patterns in which events or situations make sense. It’s how the mind operates.

It’s fun and interesting to look at world events and various happenings around you and use that info to try and spot patterns, predict future events etc., but conspiracy theorists make some key mistakes in their otherwise fun, light-hearted efforts, and those mistakes are the reasons why most people look at them as freaks and weirdos.

The other day I was watching that movie with Michael Douglas where he’s part of the Secret Service. When one of the agents are killed a detective from the police department makes some comment about how or why he was killed, and justifies it with “It’s a gut feel”, or “it’s a hunch”.

The Secret Service agent remarks, “You know what I don’t like about hunches? The only evidence you see from that point on is the evidence that supports your hunch.” Read more »