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Originally Posted by forty-two

I think you're right, that confidence is a big thing. It would take a lot more to get someone who trusts their own judgement (in general or on a given issue) to doubt it than someone who, for whatever reason, didn't feel very confident about their judgement to start with.

Flexibility of mind might come into play, too - very confident people would be less likely to dismiss common sense or intuition because of outside influence, but they might be perfectly willing to ignore reality b/c it doesn't match what they very confidently think/feel ought to be the case .

That makes a lot sense. If you think that your judgement is sound, then you can take flack about your choices without backing down. The first part of the flexibility makes sense. But I don't follow the part about ignoring reality.

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Originally Posted by BarefootBetsy

I haven't heard that about "common sense" but I have heard that because we live in a fallen world, our motherly instincts (about wanting our babies with us, and responding to their cries) are also fallen and warped and sinful

And coming from a culture where we're taught that our instincts and intuitions are wrong... well... how can we then argue that people should somehow just know to pay attention to those things? Our culture does not value innate knowledge much at all, from what I can tell. Especially not the innate knowledge of women/mothers...

Yet you just know when you hear God's voice calling you into something. Or that you are to marry someone. Or that you should jump onto whatever trend is of the moment.