Message of the Day - Dangers of Opinion

Good Morning,

 

We all have an opinion, and some of us even have an opinion on everything. 

 

In my current read, A.W. Tozer’s ‘A Disruptive Faith’ the author raises an interesting and almost frightening point.

 

Our opinions are often derived from listening to others, watching something, or reading something. Seldom are our opinions developed through our own thought process and experiences. This is how we can gain opinions on things that we, ourselves, have never experienced.

 

That is, we are a walking bag of other people’s opinions.

 

In fact there is an entire industry which focuses on changing our opinions. Marketing. You know, the folks on Madison Avenue.

 

With all the billions that is spent on marketing and PR, the industry has to be successful, or else they would stop being paid money.

 

This begs the question as to how much of our opinions on life are derived from our own soul searching and how much are imported from others, no matter where they came from.

 

The more we tap into the mass media of television, websites, radio, billboards, hanging out with others, reading magazines and books, the more we are open to take on the opinion of others.

 

This means we need to spend some time, and for some people I mean a lot of time, searching through our feelings on an issue and come up with our own opinion on things.

 

After watching the news, or some special which is trying to sway our opinion, we may just take a few moments to think about what was said, and what we think about it. Don’t just espouse what we heard, but think about it. How does it relate to our core values. How does it relate to how we felt about the subject prior to watching the special.

 

Just by doing a little reflective thinking on the subject, we may be able to ensure that the opinions we have are truly our own.

 

Without that time to stop and reflect, we may amass a wealth of opinions so foreign to ourselves that we literally become someone else, someone that others do not recognize.

 

And such are some of the dangers of opinions.

 

Something to think and reflect on.

 

 

Sanford Berenberg

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