A term that's often mixed up with contrarianism, unfortunately. This can lead to people supporting evil beliefs and values just to look like a "critical thinker" when they are in fact no closer to a critical thinker than someone who blindly follows popular belief.
"critical thinker": In my humble opinion and contrary to the boring beliefs of the NPCs surrounding me, I think that rape, torture, murder, and genocide are morally right and the age of consent should be abolished
Normal Person: No you stupid son of a bitch blindly going against popular belief isn't critical thinking. You're just as NPC-ish as the people you call NPCs. Contrarianism ≠ Critical Thinking
Normal Person: No you stupid son of a bitch blindly going against popular belief isn't critical thinking. You're just as NPC-ish as the people you call NPCs. Contrarianism ≠ Critical Thinking
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Predominantly written on mailing lists and discussion groups regarding technical issues, "woolly thinking" will frequently be used as a subtle way to say someone is thinking in an inferior way.
Unfortunate victims are seeking help and have a genuine desire to learn. "Wooly thinking" is a ruse phrase. The writers goal is to make a snide remark repeatedly in an effort to instill fear in those asking questions. It can also be used as a superiority complex reinforcement tactic.
Those using this phrase are technically competent, but socially inept. This is easy to prove as mailing list and discussion forum traffic goes down on holidays, though the use of the phrase "woolly thinking" increases. This often can be attributed to the writer long ago becoming "that guy", which no one wants around on the holidays.
Civilized people with good moral attributes don't feel the need to bestow their self proclaimed superiority on others by using a phrase most have no idea the definition of. Real men and women come out and call someone stupid if they are behaving stupid.
Predominantly written on mailing lists and discussion groups regarding technical issues, "woolly thinking" will frequently be used as a subtle way to say someone is thinking in an inferior way.
Unfortunate victims are seeking help and have a genuine desire to learn. "Wooly thinking" is a ruse phrase. The writers goal is to make a snide remark repeatedly in an effort to instill fear in those asking questions. It can also be used as a superiority complex reinforcement tactic.
Those using this phrase are technically competent, but socially inept. This is easy to prove as mailing list and discussion forum traffic goes down on holidays, though the use of the phrase "woolly thinking" increases. This often can be attributed to the writer long ago becoming "that guy", which no one wants around on the holidays.
Civilized people with good moral attributes don't feel the need to bestow their self proclaimed superiority on others by using a phrase most have no idea the definition of. Real men and women come out and call someone stupid if they are behaving stupid.
It is your woolly thinking that is causing your failure.
What is the real question, not the woolly thinking within your question?
What is the real question, not the woolly thinking within your question?
by Saying what everyone thinks June 6, 2010
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Standard excuse conspiracy theorists to deny a poltical or global situation. Ironically they call other people sheeple, when they blindly follow a random person on YouTube and receives all his information from his YouTube channel full of unsubstantiated claims rather than researching on scientific research.
"I'm going to stay at home and protect Mt friends and family from Coronavirus"
"Why? Coronavirus has a 99% survival rate; do some critical thinking.
"It's not just about the people who passed due to the virus, but it's also about the people who received complications subsequent to contracting the virus. It's like POTS Syndrome symptoms, only 10 times worse. Some people have even been paralysed or lost the ability to walk efficiently, thus having to use crutches or a wheelchair".
"Shut up you dumb sheeple"
"Why? Coronavirus has a 99% survival rate; do some critical thinking.
"It's not just about the people who passed due to the virus, but it's also about the people who received complications subsequent to contracting the virus. It's like POTS Syndrome symptoms, only 10 times worse. Some people have even been paralysed or lost the ability to walk efficiently, thus having to use crutches or a wheelchair".
"Shut up you dumb sheeple"
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Get the Critical thinking mug.It's a mix of "What is going on?" and "what are you doing later". This is a Southern term that is used quite often as a greeting in large social gatherings. "What are you thinkin?" would be a normal sentence to describe a greeting and ask what's going on later in the night. For instance, "what are you thinkin" may elicit an answer of "it's dead- let's go somewhere cool".
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2. Thinking in terms or aligning thought processes that are the same or very similar to those of Joshua Wilson.
3. Thoughts or mind processes that recipricate those of Timothy Griggs. He shall always be inside the box.
2. Thinking in terms or aligning thought processes that are the same or very similar to those of Joshua Wilson.
3. Thoughts or mind processes that recipricate those of Timothy Griggs. He shall always be inside the box.
Nicolas: Hey bro why does he never use outside the box thinking.
Josh: because the answer is in the question bro.
Josh: because the answer is in the question bro.
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Get the Outside the box thinking mug.Something upper middle class who do not deal with the brunt of unfettered capitalist exploitation as the working class love. A crutch for people who believe in pseudo-science "mind over matter" new age baloney. For people too weak of mind for skepticism and realism. New agers will often go as far to victim blame people with chronic illness like chronic fatigue and people suffering from cancer that they "thought themselves sick". Clearly need a to understand how evidence based medicine works and that supplements are not magic fairy dust pills.
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