Thread: The World Figured Out.

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Even if it does feel that way, there will always be something new to figure out.

Originally Posted by spartiate

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The WHOLE WORLD?

apparently not females

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sounds like you're not being exposed to anything new. go out and do something you've never done before with people you've never been with in places you've never been.

I took Maitreya 9 years of constant meditation 24 hours a day to decide whether to openly walk among humans again. He did and shortly moved from the deep Himalayas to London in 1977.

"Everything I once believed to be true I now know to be false" in 10, 9, 8...

I feel like I've figured out a lot of stuff too, and I'm only 16. More than the "average" person nowadays... I can see through tricks used in marketing and I know how to spot lies. I know what business is like because I've been there. I know better than to spoil a dog so it ends up biting people. I've had lots of emotional experiences. And awkward as it is to admit, I see that people, as a whole, are relatively selfish.

But nobody knows everything, no matter how much you feel you do!

Originally Posted by Puffin

I feel like I've figured out a lot of stuff too, and I'm only 16. More than the "average" person nowadays... I can see through tricks used in marketing and I know how to spot lies. I know what business is like because I've been there. I know better than to spoil a dog so it ends up biting people. I've had lots of emotional experiences. And awkward as it is to admit, I see that people, as a whole, are relatively selfish.

Yes, this is revolutionary and ground breaking knowledge. Truly, your intelligence rivals that of our greatest thinkers. Goes for OP as well.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Yes, this is revolutionary and ground breaking knowledge. Truly, your intelligence rivals that of our greatest thinkers. Goes for OP as well.

I don't appreciate the smartass comment. I'm not saying I'm really deep and truly knowledgeable about everything, I am only touching on what I know that, quite honestly, not a lot of people around me seem to even have a clue about.

Hey Marvo, stop being mean! There are plenty of people out there who have pretty much no awareness of the world and very little common sense.

Puffin, good for you I know how you feel.

I never said I had everything figured out. I just said I feel like I do, I even said I feel arrogant...

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

I never said I had everything figured out. I just said I feel like I do, I even said I feel arrogant...

then recognize that those are just feelings. "I can give you a pill that makes you angry, or upset, or ecstatic, because feelings are just firings in your brain. You're the one with control over them."

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Originally Posted by no-Name

then recognize that those are just feelings. "I can give you a pill that makes you angry, or upset, or ecstatic, because feelings are just firings in your brain. You're the one with control over them."

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I believe I do recognize them as feelings, I was asking if anyone else shares with me this form of arrogance. I apologize for the mis-understanding. I also think that link to the help thread was inappropriate and off topic. I was simply seeking advice on that thread, not a way of future ridicule.

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

I believe I do recognize them as feelings, I was asking if anyone else shares with me this form of arrogance. I apologize for the mis-understanding. I also think that link to the help thread was inappropriate and off topic. I was simply seeking advice on that thread, not a way of future ridicule.

I should also add that I, too, feel arrogant in a lot of situations.

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

I believe I do recognize them as feelings, I was asking if anyone else shares with me this form of arrogance. I apologize for the mis-understanding. I also think that link to the help thread was inappropriate and off topic. I was simply seeking advice on that thread, not a way of future ridicule.

it was indeed overly snide, but I was making a point. you DON'T have the world figured out. fantastic, you know that you don't. what then, was the point of this thread? what would you do once you had found that other arrogant teenagers felt the same way? "Oh, cool."? it's hardly something we can put in ED.

Despite what you say, I think this is something that is worth putting in extended discussion. This was meant to be more than just a discussion of "I am arrogant how about you?" Why do people believe they're opinions of the world as fact? Why do some think of more as just an opinion or theory? Why do Atheists or Christians or Muslims claim to have figured out how the world works? Weather it is based on scientific theory or legend. Why do we as a species have this arrogance? I think it is rather ignorant of you to claim this as an arrogant teenage thing and that it not worthy of discussion. Maybe your right, maybe your wrong, maybe this won't go anywhere as a discussion, but for you to just dismiss it like that is very rude and inconsiderate. By the way, please edit your post with proper capitalization, it is bugging the shit out of me.

I never thought I had the whole world figured out...I just don't know everything going on. If I knew everything that has ever went on, going on, and will go on...and was able to form thoughts after knowing this...possibly. I used to think everything that I knew was THE TRUTH, but now, I know that I truly know nothing in comparison to the universe. I have some thoughts about how the world works, but there's so much shit out there. For example, did you know theres a crab at the bottom of the ocean that snaps its claws, forms a microscopic bubble that collapses and makes a supersonic wave that stuns a fish?

You may just be over-awed at your own ability to "see" through things...which your only over-awed because every one else around you sucks b*lls at it. lol. Be confident in yourself, and know that you can always learn to be better at what you do, some way, some how. Learning is a constant progress, until you've mastered it, and once you do that...you don't really talk about it much. Unless your super boastful, but if you've figured everything out, then you'd know that isn't the Way. Or maybe if you have figured everything out, then you've figured out that it is the way to go...that humbleness is an incorrect virtue. Who knows? I mean, I definitely haven't figured everything out, so I couldn't tell you.

But, on a side note, I used to think everything that I knew was automatically correct, and everyone else was dead wrong unless they could show me peer-reviewed scientific proof( so glad I'm out of THAT stage) of me being wrong. Now I know that the universe is full of infinite variations and possibilities, and we don't know squidly-doodle about it.

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

Despite what you say, I think this is something that is worth putting in extended discussion. This was meant to be more than just a discussion of "I am arrogant how about you?" Why do people believe they're opinions of the world as fact? Why do some think of more as just an opinion or theory? Why do Atheists or Christians or Muslims claim to have figured out how the world works?

that'd be a MUCH more interesting thread! I'd like to see that. this thread, however, is not about why christianity is self-fulfilling or why other people feel arrogant/human. it's about you, and the other people on the forum answering a binary question.

By the way, please edit your post with proper capitalization, it is bugging the shit out of me.

nope. spelling > grammar/punctuation.

Originally Posted by no-Name

that'd be a MUCH more interesting thread! I'd like to see that. this thread, however, is not about why christianity is self-fulfilling or why other people feel arrogant/human. it's about you, and the other people on the forum answering a binary question.

I was hoping it would lead to this, but lets just jump right in to it. I personally don't just dismiss Christianity or any other religion as bullshit. I believe in the possibility of a god, but I believe that the religions I have learned about just seem to man made for me to follow. Like someone just came up with a theory and claimed it as fact, with no evidence what so ever.

The longer I live, the more I feel there is to figure out. I like it this way.

Originally Posted by Invader

The longer I live, the more I feel there is to figure out. I like it this way.

This can be said about both life from as philosophical point of view, but also a practical one. When I was 10, I thought I knew everything there was to know about computers, because I could assemble one and install an operating system. Ignorance is intelligence?

Part of maturing is gaining new perspectives on things, and that process lasts a lifetime. It's impossible to predict how your views might change in the future, but I can tell you that my life philosophy has changed significantly from when I was 16. In fact, it's changed significantly in the past year.

I'd have to agree with Caprisun. My world view has completely changed not only since I was the OP's age but even since last year. Want to feel less arrogant or less like you know everything about the world? Take a psychedelic; I guarantee you will see things in a completely different perspective, at least for the duration of the trip. That's one of the primary reasons, in fact, that I take them. Not only are they fun, but they are enlightening and they completely dissolve your old world view. You are completely open to ideas you would otherwise dismiss, consciously or unconsciously. It's quite honestly liberating.