(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
SyneJul 1, 2025 12:50 AM (This post was last modified: Jul 1, 2025 12:50 AM by Syne.)
(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.
'Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent'—Fyodor Tyutchev
"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"----Lord Byron
"I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room."---Fernando Pessoa