So quoteth man...

People quote their scriptures and work-books and teaching-transcripts and all sorts of other second-hand sources, NOT because they imagine those words and pictures to be special in some way - though that's what they ALL say - BUT because they can't THINK on their own and QUOTE themselves.

Once a person starts Thinking and Quoting ONLY himself, he will never drop into those second-hand sources ever again, because they will now be seen to him as third-rate or worse, which is in fact what they are.

Before you start "thinking" (reacting) all this doesn't apply to you - "because I never do that!" (yeah, right dude!) - consider the last several days, weeks, even months, or YEARS! of talking and writing to yourself and other people, because nobody is immune to this strong mental tendency. Did you grab your little "bit" (the ideas "shared") from some Wikied Page, or some Googled Website, or some other hard-or-soft "source" (which most likely was 2nd, 3rd, or 13th-handed - you'll never know)? If you did, is that typical for you - try to be HONEST! - or is it extremely rare if ever? Think About It. (Someone is looking over your mind, so you can't fool THEM!)

All this quoting of other people is simply a form of "intellectual" (though quite low-level) "pushing", and those who have made a continual, long-term practice of it, are Pushers. Their agenda is to have the other guy - the listener, the reader, the poor sap - buy into it, and even believe it as strongly as the Pusher does, because then they will come back for more. Pushers always want people to come back for more - which simply means, to value their particular persuasions, to agree with their particular messages, and to (this being the "kicker") seriously believe the PUSHER is quite "intelligent" for having located and posted (and presumed by the unwary receivers, FULLY UNDERSTOOD) the other person's "bit".

The "thing" about Pushers - both the chemical variety, and the mental variety - is that the thing being PUSHED is so often - as to be considered ALWAYS - a bad, bad, very bad thing.

As for the chemical variety, anyone reading this has more than enough experience in life to understand this (badness) almost instantly, and if they don't it probably means they have BEEN pushed, and haven't kicked it yet, or worse, don't even want to because they (say they) "enjoy it too much", and more than likely take part in PUSHING to others (friends most often, but in the worst case strangers as well).

But, as for the mental variety being detailed below (and practically NOBODY gets this at all, let alone after reading this "bit" originated and posted by me and nobody else but me, since a: they've never heard such a concept before, anywhere, and so are skeptical of its value, and/or b: they can't deal with the intrinsic truth of the matters being presented... too close to "home"), the reason the mental variety is so bad, is that it takes the reader OFF THE HOOK, yet again, just as, probably, for decades or more by now of having to... here it comes... THINK FOR THEMSELVES and originate/create their OWN viewpoints regarding what is useful to say and think.

Quoters - whether or NOT they attribute their quotations of others, or whether or NOT they are simply re-re-retelling anecdotes they've rehearsed so many times before - are simply plagiarizers (of others as well as themselves), and when their "stuff" (mostly non-sense) is pushed onto others, especially friends but not limited to them, it is especially egregious once you SEE THIS for your self. The primary reason is that it gives the plagiarizer an "ultimate back door" or "fall back position". If the receivers LOVE the stuff, then they love you LOTS MORE for sharing it, and if the receives HATE the stuff, then you can always say.. "Hey, I didn't write it, I don't even buy it all. I just thought YOU SHOULD read it!" Even worse (what could be worse?!?) is that it is one of the best examples of a LAZY MIND (that's what!) and the longer such plagiarizers continue with their shoddy mental behaviors, the less possible it is for them to develop into an "Independent Thinker". A copy/paster maybe, an anecdotalizer maybe. But a THINKER - hardly!
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