Personally written wisdom sayings
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Sorry, I really dislike that saying, reminding me of the ugly anti-science anti-learning trend of today (and unreasonable anti-learning bullies at my school back in the Paleozoic).
If we have no knowledge then we rely on our senses so, yes, we do enjoy more vivid imagery - but then we won't understand it, just see vivid images like a kaleidoscope. There's already enough people afflicted with a fear of learning around without encouraging them.
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My favourite from this page. (I assume it's referring to the potential turning into the actual.)The benefit of potential is in its loss.
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In other words
- forgiveness is easier than hating, don't pay for what someone else did.
- loving is easier than being angry, life is to short, imagine if you left it to late?
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I read that very differently, and maybe Nothingman will clear it up. I saw that as not against knowledge but against certainty, not against seeking knowledge but for being open to learning by entertaining all the possibilities presented to you by the world.Greta wrote: ↑July 29th, 2018, 9:53 pmSorry, I really dislike that saying, reminding me of the ugly anti-science anti-learning trend of today (and unreasonable anti-learning bullies at my school back in the Paleozoic).
If we have no knowledge then we rely on our senses so, yes, we do enjoy more vivid imagery - but then we won't understand it, just see vivid images like a kaleidoscope. There's already enough people afflicted with a fear of learning around without encouraging them.
If you claim to 'know' much, in the sense of 100% certainty, then you may refuse to consider new knowledge which threatens to sweep away the old, and limit opportunities to grow as a result. You won't 'see' the new information because you are wearing the blinders of certainty.
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We can also take it personally, in the sense of the less we know about someone, the less likely we are to judge them.
Therefore we may see more of them for who they are not who we've been told they are.
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However, we can't rely on our senses like other animals. We're humans and what we do is borrow each others' senses - so we know what the the surfaces of the Moon and Mars look like. So, to reject the perceptions of others - to reject science and learning - is to diminish oneself.
Thus, people are increasingly shrinking themselves into wizened, hardened, impermeable balls of reactionary defensiveness that hankers for strongman authoritarian leaders to provide the security that would have otherwise been gained by simply learning more about the world and how it works.
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Yes. It's clever, original and head-scratchingly deep. ( Thanks for explanation.)
Anything I come up with has usually been done before.
Like my thought yesterday of:
If the world turns upside down, then stand on your head.
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