“I’ll tell you a secret, since media is not here. Thank you for not allowing the media in. Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you, But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.
“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me. The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur.
“And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare, but to wait. At the time, I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses and thank you, Lord, you’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.
“I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.
“Ultimately 13 people ran for the post. And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ So I waited, I waited. And then at the end the Lord said, ‘Now step forward.’
“Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron. ‘No,’ the Lord said, ‘Step forward.’” – Mike Johnson, speaking last night to the far-right National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
This man is a true believer. True believers do not compromise anything that goes against what they believe their religion tells them. This man is far more dangerous than Donald Trump, who is simply a grifter and was in it for himself. This guy thinks the gods have ordained him. Anybody who stands against him is going against God, in his own mind.
Not to diminish your point as I totally agree with what you’re saying, but interestingly enough, not everybody does have that inner monologue. It is estimated that anywhere between 30% - 50% of the population has the ability to have conversations with themselves inside their head, the other 50% - 70% of the population can not. As someone with an inner monologue, I can’t even begin to comprehend how that works.
I’ve never been able to keep up the habit, but I’ve tried silencing my inner monologue. It’s not necessary, I already know what the full thought is going to be before I even start “vocalizing it” inside my head. Thought would be faster without taking the time to encode it in a spoken language. But I suspect it’s also sloppier. That conversion to spoken language gives your brain more time to consider the thought.
Think of the times you’ve said something or started saying something and then realized right after or part way through that it is a candidate for the dumbest thing you’ve ever said. I don’t know about everyone else, but I catch myself thinking thoughts like that, too. I wonder if those who don’t have an inner monologue are more likely to just move on without noticing.
I wonder if that’s a fundamental difference that plays a role in how differently some people see and interact with the world.
The conversion also helps you explain it to others.
You know, I wonder what my deaf uncle’s equivalent to an inner monologue is. I would imagine it’s different having never heard speech before (he was born deaf).
I actually saw this question asked on reddit way back, and the top answer was they think in a combination of sign language (words) and images since speaking is foreign to them… I’ll give this statement an 87% chance of being an accurate recall.