The Phrase Most Likely to Keep You from Thinking!
Most Likely…..Probable…..Plausible…..Consensus….’Billy did it!’
All these statements have a thread of doubt in them. If you’ve ever been at the short end of the stick you know that a 99.5% guarantee doesn’t include your .5%. Any time you have a choice, there are two things that are going to happen the outcome you expect or the one you don’t.
Most Americans believed that the Bailout would work! Most people thought that global warming would have killed us 10 years ago! Most people believed they would get cash back from their Discover Card. Why do we believe that our government might solve problems? And not be the CAUSE of them?
Phrases like ’Most likely to’ are used to validate statements or assign labels. The power WE have is to research these statements, ignore the story or follow the herd and get sucked in to the ideas of lazy or deceitful writers!
When a phrase like ‘the Probability of this happening…’ or ‘this will Most Likely be…’ comes up in an issue that you feel is important; research it! Take the time to know what the facts are, before you set your heart to an issue! If you don’t think some of the information is factual, you might be right! So use your mind and think!
Even if you think differently than I do, please keep thinking! Mistakes don’t do as much damage as ignorance does! Ignorance doesn’t look for correction, where as, mistakes always encourage improvement!
