Heifner Brothers and their Dad

GUEST BLOG: AS A MAN THINKETH............by Kevin Heifner--Nephrologist in Little Rock, AR

The title of a book written in 1902 by James Allen I’ve never read…

Todd snapped a rain picture in his AL backyard and sent it to JoAnn. She asked me to take a rain pic in AR we could send him. Thus Fred looking at rain.

Interestingly… we had just had a brief discussion, one of thousands over the years, of a general nature I thought common between fathers and sons…

Have come to realize it’s not typical for some. We talk about how people think, why they believe things they believe… Sometimes absurdities… We discuss philosophical, ethical issues and conundrums of the days. A favorite topic is the dissonance or disconnect between…

What we say we believe and how we act…

Holding two thoughts, which may be partly at odds yet each contain an element of truth… To be something wonderfully contemplated rather than a thing feared, restricted, even banned.

Today’s topic was a piece of yesterday’s news… that Arkansas magically is the state with “the most religious freedom” because it was awarded a prize saying so… from a group I have never heard of.

I can make this simple.

Tomorrow I could form the Pulaski County Naturalist Society and declare pigs can fly… or that a colony of ivory biilled woodpeckers lives in my backyard.

Neither claim would be true, but that’s irrelevant.

If I can get it on the news or sell it to a social media outlet to be placed online or in a paper…

People will see the headline and swallow a lie… hook, line, sinker.

Sadly, I have learned you cannot argue someone out of allegiance to a false narrative (a lie) when they have been conditioned to only read the headline.

People have to be taught sooner how to think critically, question, demand proof… because once it gets to the headline stage… ball game over. We need to thinketh better.