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The danger of Being Narrow minded |
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Written by Shelton Gonkerwon cell: 0886526186 email: sgonkerwon.inprofile @gmail.com
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Monday, 25 June 2012 23:35 |
God is so good to mankind irrespective of color, creed, or religious beliefs all of the times. All of the times, God will always remain God to mankind with His bountiful grace permeating all over the universe to the advantage of all living creatures, mankind being the principal custodians. God does not distinguish, His grace remains hanging persistently over everyone even the worst criminals that are condemned by societies.
The greatness of God is quite unlimited given what He stands for as far as His love for mankind is concerned. He made man in His own image and likeness and granted him (man) the five senses to see, hear, feel, smell and talk. He installed conscience in man to make him (man) judge himself along the way in his social interactions with others.
The human conscience is the most important part of the elements making the human body because it is an indicator whereby man is able to make a journey through the path of life in the face of the endless challenges. With his five senses in full swing man is therefore naturally placed in the able position to know what is wrong or right given the customs and tradition guiding mankind.
A well functioning human conscience obviously produces the morally prudent person. On the other hand, when the conscience is dead the person definitely becomes dangerous, not only to him/herself but the society at large. People with dead consciences are customarily led by the spirit of ignorance and would make decisions that often bear no tissue of justice. They are displaced in terms of being judgmental. They share not the ideas of others and would feel so proud and arrogant. They have little or no feeling and would take pleasure in doing those things that are harmful to others. They usually take decisions before deciding instead of deciding before decisions are reached.
Their decisions are based on narrow mindedness. As a matter of fact, narrow minded persons care less how others feel as they are most often not prepared to delve into the origin of why and how things happen. A narrow minded person care less to examine the thoughts of others and would therefore act even if his actions are detrimental to the survival others.
A narrow minded person is harmful to the growth and development of others, when and if he/she is made the head of management. Institutionally narrow minded people are the viruses because they see not the essence of democratic virtues and would reject the views of others. Narrow minded people see not the inner most of others in terms of substance and the ability to perform. They overlook the strength of others and what they are capable of doing. Being narrow minded also places one to see thing in the negative context and base decision on that. The narrow minded person knows not where and when he/she will fall; so he or she goes on running without checking break. It goes to say that the narrow minded person does things without examining the positive or negative effects.
Narrow mindedness leads to selfishness, greed as well as the abuse of power. It leads to wickedness and dictatorship. It bars one from being sociable and generous. It is the breeding ground of gossips, envy and malice. It provokes undermining what is good and promoting what is evil. It suppresses one to express gratitude to others. Those are among other things the danger of being narrow minded. The devil loves people who are narrow minded while God loves those who are clean in spirit and generous by nature. Ignorance and the habit of flamboyance are the result of being narrow minded. Our society has and continues to bend low under the weight poverty, greed and selfishness all because there are more narrow minded individuals in privileged positions.
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Last Updated on Monday, 25 June 2012 23:45 |
