Thread: Guess I'm back... again

So, you're saying you like to examine the often-ignored assumptions people have? Those unwritten customs and biases towards what is right or wrong, true or false? That thinking you are right is very different than KNOWING you are right? I would have to agree. I admit though, it is rare for me to have a moment of knowing. I am, as I said, always wondering, and I'm always indecisive on these sorts of things. I'm afraid of making a "wrong" decision you see, even though that's how people learn. I hate to make mistakes. I need to embrace that concept of life as an adventure, and be more daring. More willing to make mistakes. I like the way you think.

Originally Posted by Singularity125

So, you're saying you like to examine the often-ignored assumptions people have? Those unwritten customs and biases towards what is right or wrong, true or false? That thinking you are right is very different than KNOWING you are right? I would have to agree. I admit though, it is rare for me to have a moment of knowing. I am, as I said, always wondering, and I'm always indecisive on these sorts of things. I'm afraid of making a "wrong" decision you see, even though that's how people learn. I hate to make mistakes. I need to embrace that concept of life as an adventure, and be more daring. More willing to make mistakes. I like the way you think.

The human mind is evolving, going from a time where memory dominated to a time when one day rationality will. We all look the same on the outside, but even psych books tell you that the very smart think differently, process information differently. Plato tried to get his readers to abstract it, however, the words cannot change the structure of a mind. That is why most people can only demonstrate memory abilities but still only parrot. They may be clever, but never understand the nonsense the think. They cannot think in accordance with principles. Cannot blame them, it is just what they are. The problem has always been those few who will not, can not parrot, but actually seek to live by principles. Always too few to survive.