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People will hold onto internally inconsistent ideas - ideas that contradict each other - rather than putting forth the effort to reconcile the contradictions.
If you point out the contradictions, it is almost certainly a waste of time.
I know I have some of those contradictions myself. I have actively been working to resolve them, and over the years have been able to resolve many - or rather I have allowed the spirit to resolve them.
The majority of people will completely reject the spirit if the truth is too uncomfortable or if it would shake their paradigm too much.
People's paradigms need to be radically shaken, in general. And I don't see it happening until - just like a dog getting housebroken - their noses are forcefully pushed in their "accidents" while they get rebuked by the Lord.
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I agree with your assessment of the majority of people. However, it is so important to try anyway, even though it is almost certainly a waste of time.
An unfortunate part of human nature / modern culture is the tendency to avoid things with a low probability of success. We should be calculating what we do based on the probability of success times the value of success.
If you look around, you'll find that much of the lameness in work, relationships, and spirituality stem from people being unwilling to act according to expected benefit, instead opting out of things because success in each of those domains is highly unlikely. Try anyway. And not a little.
I wrote "Through Faith" to address that, although I have yet to meet anyone who lives up to what is written there, and few who seem to have even taken it seriously.
There is much more to come to help, and so many things rely on people learning this skill.
One crucial point to understand is that there will not be many opportunities where you get your nose rubbed in it and then have the chance to make a change. The latter-day nose-rubbing is almost always terminal. People REALLY don't get that.
Case in point: I am building a presentation on the coming Chinese invasion. After making the case for why it will happen and why it will be successful, I plan on making a section on what we should do about it. Very few people are going to like what I have to say there. Folks would expect me to say, "move to a low density rural area," and I will, but I am also going to explain how it's already too late for almost all people to do this. The prices are too high, and they are not likely to come down. In fact, they will probably double again in the near term, and they are already out of reach for most people to even qualify for the loan, let alone in a way where they preserve their % paid off on their house in the move (which is the criteria most seem to have).
As time goes on, the stack of "it's too late" is going to increase. It's already growing far faster than people realize.
Where you live, what you do for work, who you are married to, whether you have kids/how many/how they turn out--there are many things that are or will be on this list.