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Comedian
(OP) User ID: 1417763 United States 06/09/2011 08:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It happens. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1420765The problem of internet era is flood of information; if you’re not seeking for the truth as it is but for information that support your paradigm, you shall always find them. The way to tackle with this mess is Critical Thinking - rely on reason rather than emotion; - require evidences, and follow them where they lead; - seek for the truth as it is, without trying to prove you’re right; - analyze apparent contradictions and ask questions; We’re entitled to our own believes, but not to our own realities. * ^ :mmmmhmm: ^ Don't run. You'll just die tired. |
Comedian
(OP) User ID: 1417763 United States 06/09/2011 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sobering in it's intensity that title... Quoting: He Might Be Right?a complete and utter stripping away of ones belief system, after the realization and gnawing of teeth two things can happen, a complete breakdown, or the chance to begin again, I'm not sure how it's going to happen, one of the biggest thing's is the timing of the realization C, does it happen all at once or bit by bit?... Spoken like someone who has never done it before. That's telling in itself. Further, strip away ones beliefs and STAND NAKED! Forget your beliefs. Choose only knowledge. Either know, or do not know. Do you possess that much courage? Refer: my tagline Whoops I'm not logged in Don't run. You'll just die tired. |
Gratia Plena
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Comedian
(OP) User ID: 1417763 United States 06/09/2011 08:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Right after my mother died, I had a few "dreams" where she came to visit me. In one of them, she told me, "It's not how you think it is." I didn't know what she meant, as "it" could've been anything or everything. But I decided it probably wasn't really her. Quoting: Gratia PlenaThat's definitely preferable to "We are all meat". Thread: We are all Meat Don't run. You'll just die tired. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1420765 Slovenia 06/09/2011 08:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It happens. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1420765The problem of internet era is flood of information; if you’re not seeking for the truth as it is but for information that support your paradigm, you shall always find them. The way to tackle with this mess is Critical Thinking - rely on reason rather than emotion; - require evidences, and follow them where they lead; - seek for the truth as it is, without trying to prove you’re right; - analyze apparent contradictions and ask questions; We’re entitled to our own believes, but not to our own realities. * ^ :mmmmhmm: ^ I’m that weird “Slovenian” guy claiming stupid shit about being a Philo-Semite while at the same time acting as “devil’s attorney” of mainstream Muslims. Would you believe me that I was once upon a time harshly Islamophobic? * |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 863287 United States 06/09/2011 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | then you change Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1402771which is why most christians are doomed if jesus walked in one of them chruches he wo uld say, i did not say collect gun, i did not say put money in a collection plate the parisheners would look at him standing next to a whore and a thief and would throw him out |
Comedian
(OP) User ID: 1417763 United States 06/09/2011 08:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ? Quoting: ComedianI'll cross that bridge when I come to it. But I know that many things YOU know are wrong and you seem to be coping with it just fine! Although I don't know if you know that what you know is wrong. Sorry for the punch below the waist, I just had to do it. ^ Typical of the uninspired, uninformed, unenlightened ^ Don't run. You'll just die tired. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1421149 United States 06/09/2011 08:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ? Quoting: ComedianComedian, Yeah, it's a fact. Most of what we know is wrong. A whole century of bankster and fundation-funded engineering of education and total control of the media have made it a reality. You know the Red Shield (who btw controlled all big US networks - ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. when they were split - and today still control Reuters and AP, between others) have played a dominant role in the destruction of intelligence, verbal abilities and Historical perspective in the Western world... Sad but true. So what if ? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1124291 United States 06/09/2011 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sobering in it's intensity that title... Quoting: He Might Be Right?a complete and utter stripping away of ones belief system, after the realization and gnawing of teeth two things can happen, a complete breakdown, or the chance to begin again, I'm not sure how it's going to happen, one of the biggest thing's is the timing of the realization C, does it happen all at once or bit by bit?... Spoken like someone who has never done it before. That's telling in itself. Further, strip away ones beliefs and STAND NAKED! Forget your beliefs. Choose only knowledge. Either know, or do not know. Do you possess that much courage? Refer: my tagline Whoops I'm not logged in Thanks for the chuckle! Have a happy day! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1124291 United States 06/09/2011 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been wrong about things my whole life, but it's only because I ignored my feelings (intuition) that something wasn't right. In the last 7/8 years I have paid more attention to how I feel in a situation or people. Quoting: Cherokee SoulNine times out of ten, that gut feeling you're having about something, is usually spot on. Go with it, don't ignore it. I try to do this, too. Things flow more smoothly. I have a little problem, though. I judge people by their eyes. Unintentionally at first until I realized what was going on. If I don't like their eyes I don't have anything else to do with them. It's like I just can't. I don't want them to look at or speak to me. I feel like this is wrong. Aren't we supposed to reach out to everyone? And sunglasses--I can't seem to have a conversation with someone who won't take them off inside. I take mine off when I'm talking to someone--inside or outside. It just seems to be the polite thing to do. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1421173 United States 06/09/2011 09:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A belief always is! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1289258knowing comes from somewhere else and it is relative I was raised in a religious cult. Ever since I left it in 1980, I realized everything I knew was wrong. Ever since, I make no assumptions. I try to use the armchair scientific method on conclusions that constantly must be re-tested. The human brain is tragically lazy. It prefers to catagorize everything immediately. The second an observation is catagorized, the brain can move on to something else second by second. I estimate that 99% of everything the brain catagorizes is wrong. Therefore, everything I believe that happened every day is 99% wrong. I don't even know why I do some things that I do. How could I ever judge others correctly. This is my life philosophy that I live by. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1343060 United States 06/09/2011 09:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | then you change Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1402771which is why most christians are doomed if jesus walked in one of them chruches he would say, i did not say collect gun, i did not say put money in a collection plate the parisheners would look at him standing next to a whore and a thief and would throw him out How true that is. |
He Might Be Right?
User ID: 1421094 Canada 06/09/2011 09:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sobering in it's intensity that title... Quoting: He Might Be Right?a complete and utter stripping away of ones belief system, after the realization and gnawing of teeth two things can happen, a complete breakdown, or the chance to begin again, I'm not sure how it's going to happen, one of the biggest thing's is the timing of the realization C, does it happen all at once or bit by bit?... Spoken like someone who has never done it before. That's telling in itself. done what?...given up all my beliefs?...such a hair trigger judgement!...are you in the Security Industry?..New South Wales perhaps? |
urkidding User ID: 1373291 United States 06/09/2011 09:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well I have had a couple times on in particular felt like all I believed in was wrong and the one time it was alot to try to recover from as it was alot to take in and seemed like something had to melt away and then healing time. It is hard. If every single thing we know is wrong we may very well be doomed. I think it is not doing acting on what we know is right (what we have been shown we need to change)is were we get in trouble. I also think since the last few months my learning/beliefs have went through a major overhaul, as in it is a much bigger picture (cosmos) than I once thought. Which I feel is a big step in understanding more fully to know too much all at once could possibly harm some of us. But I do not want to be mollycoddled either. |
GeekOfTheWeek
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 996949 United States 06/09/2011 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Have You Ever Wondered...? Why humans use only about 10% of our massively supercharged brains, yet savants can somehow access parts of the remaining 90% Why our skin is so poorly adapted to the amount of sunlight striking Earth? Why we are so physically weak compared to our closest genetic relatives? Why Earth is the only planet or moon with moveable tectonic plates? Why Earth’s moon is so extraordinarily outsized relative to other moons? Why megalithic structures like the Pyramids cannot be duplicated today? How the ancient Sumerians could know Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto existed when we discovered Uranus only in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930? How and why the Sumerians kept cosmic time in units of almost 26,000 years? Why humans have a gene pool with over 4000 genetic defects, while our closest genetic relatives, chimps and gorillas, have very few? Why the human genome clocks is only about 200,000 years old but anthropologists insist we descend from creatures 6.0 million years old? Why humans in no way resemble those ancient so-called “pre”-humans? Why humans have 46 chromosomes while our closest genetic relatives (sharing over 95% of our DNA) total 48? [link to www.lloydpye.com] . |
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Jane Smith
Forum Administrator User ID: 1215902 United States 06/09/2011 11:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How can I be certain what I don't know is right? If I gain knowledge of of what I don't know; thus, rendering it knowledge, will it then be wrong? Hmmmm............ Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" the warrior whispers back "I am the storm" INTJ-A |
Tracy
User ID: 1198157 Australia 06/09/2011 11:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, E. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 776713 United States 06/09/2011 11:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When (if ever) we know the truth, we shouldn't be surprised to learn that our interpretations are not accurate. 1) Science, mostly Physics and non bio sciences are incorrect. 2) Math is incorrect, starting at the number line. 3) Our perception of time is inaccurate. 4) Our perception of reality is hampered by these fallacies. |
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TheBlackVegetable User ID: 1421041 Slovenia 06/09/2011 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ? Quoting: ComedianI'll cross that bridge when I come to it. But I know that many things YOU know are wrong and you seem to be coping with it just fine! Although I don't know if you know that what you know is wrong. Sorry for the punch below the waist, I just had to do it. ^ Typical of the uninspired, uninformed, unenlightened ^ Come on, I did it just for the lulz, it was a grown up version of asking you to pull my finger! I am able to change my point of view if I'm proven wrong. We're human, we all make mistake, even the smartest and the most educated people. Huge ego, insecurity and emotions sometimes prevent us from seeing things from bird's perspective. First thing is to realize that you're being irrational about a particular issue, then it's all smooth sailing, IMO. This bonnie lass said it better than I. |