Surviving the Devil-An Account of Adoption And Abuse

I don't normally promote things but this is something very special that I wanted to get the word out about. My really good friend, Angie Cox, wrote the book described here: a very disturbing detail of her childhood abuse and overcoming it. It is an issue important to her and myself and many people, but still many refuse to acknowledge that it happens or that it's a big deal. Her book can be purchased at Barnes and Noble.com or Amazon.com with a percentage of the profits going to several children's child abuse charities. I also will be posting the book's Facebook Page link.

Surviving the Devil-An Account of Adoption And Abuse

I am a woman on fire with purpose. The cause most near and dear to my heart is child abuse awareness, a cause with which I am intimately acquainted!

Book: 495 like this

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/surviving-the-devil-angie-cox/1119322111

Kafka Quote

"He feels imprisoned on this earth, he feels constricted: the melancholy, the impotence, the sickness, the feverish fancies of the captive afflict him; no comfort can comfort him, since it is merely comfort, gentle head-splitting comfort glozing the brutal fact of imprisonment. But if he is asked what he actually wants he cannot reply, for--that is one of his strongest proofs--he has no conception of freedom." - Franz Kafka, in "He"

New Yorker Article -

I can think of a few reasons...maybe people just want to hold onto their belief, even if proven wrong, just to be stubborn and not admit they are wrong. Or it's a comforting belief, and who cares if it flies in the face of the truth? Another reason is plain old stupidity- like the people who would believe anything Jenny McCarthy has to say about ANYTHING over established medical scientists and doctors who have been proving the same thing for years. It's like if Justin Bieber said the sun revolves around the moon, there'd soon be a huge group of "activists" espousing that fallacy...And another is that science is not infallible, "facts" change as more information becomes available- like, for example, theoretical physics is a huge area that changes what is "true" about activity at the subatomic level. Things that people believed to be impossible, then get proved true in an experiment, then later, it is revealed the experiment was faulty, etc etc.

Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?

www.newyorker.com