(Jun 29, 2025 07:48 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ] (Jun 29, 2025 07:03 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking."---Malcolm Gladwell
Cope.
If you don't opine on things you don't understand, you won't contradict yourself when you do understand them.
People don't generally think much about the things they understand. It's only the things they don't understand that trigger thinking, which leads to many contradictions and corresponding course corrections.
“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Turns out the unknown is not so scary afterall...
(Jun 30, 2025 09:31 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ] (Jun 29, 2025 07:48 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ] (Jun 29, 2025 07:03 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking."---Malcolm Gladwell
Cope.
If you don't opine on things you don't understand, you won't contradict yourself when you do understand them.
People don't generally think much about the things they understand. It's only the things they don't understand that trigger thinking, which leads to many contradictions and corresponding course corrections.
I'm sure
you don't think about things you
think you understand. Hence the contradictions and Dunning-Kruger effect.
(Jun 30, 2025 11:22 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Turns out the unknown is not so scary afterall...
Says the asexual hermit who hears voices in his head.
Quote:I'm sure you don't think about things you think you understand.
Nobody thinks much about the things they understand. But then I repeat myself.
Quote:Says the asexual hermit who hears voices in his head.
Seriously? You're going to troll my quotes for the day now?
(Jul 1, 2025 01:23 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:I'm sure you don't think about things you think you understand.
Nobody thinks much about the things they understand. But then I repeat myself.
If you weren't illiterate, you'd be able to comprehend the difference between "understand" and "think you understand."
Hence Dunning-Kruger.
Quote:
Quote:Says the asexual hermit who hears voices in his head.
Seriously? You're going to troll my quotes for the day now?
I don't give a shit about your quotes, dipshit.
Quote:If you weren't illiterate, you'd be able to comprehend the difference between "understand" and "think you understand."
I never said "think I understand." I said "Nobody thinks much about the things they understand." Do you understand that statement? Think about it. lol
I said "think you understand," but obviously that's completely lost to your Dunning-Kruger illiteracy. 9_9
Ah well.
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