Quote: When personal bias (hope or fear based) - not one's unique 'distortion' - fills in the gaps in understanding, or when desires greatly overextend what is known with what one would like to see.
My only issue with this is that 'personal bias' seems to be defined on the back of someone else's understanding. Is not each of our realities not true to ourselves? We live within our perceptions because there are lessons to be learnt, so for someone to deem another's view as a personal bias supplants the idea that there is a truth that is different from that. I don't know if anybody holds the right to judge that for someone else.
This really sounds like its splitting hairs with "stop liking what I don't like!" Just call them opinions; you don't have to talk down with 'personal biases'.
@unity100
Nice list, like monkey I agree with pretty much all of what you're touching on... It was kinda crazy and synchronous in that when you were writing that post I was out for a jog and was thinking "man, someone (or I) should make a post that just lays out how they see harvest going. no arguments, just a sharing of viewpoints." and that's pretty much what you did in that post. I may steal it as a guest-post in my post idea (once i start it
