Sunday, November 10, 2013

Convincing. Transformation.

How can you convince people who are not convinced you can convince them?

The issue here isn't your or their capacity to reason correctly about your arguments, but their lack of desire to be convinced by such an unconvincing person, namely yourself, even though you just did provide a convincing argument.

Here's where a much appreciated Arab proverb comes really handy: 'Judge what is being said, not who is saying it.'

Arabic societies is living a transformation that will leave us with a lot more reasonable thinkers, free men and women who have the ability to be objective and seek their well being through their societies' well being. Being an intellectual, an artist, a philospher or a scientist will become the norm