RE: Strong desire to understand.
September 11, 2016 at 6:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2016 at 6:50 am by paulpablo.)
(September 11, 2016 at 5:56 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: How strong is your desire to understand? Do you struggle to agree with what you do not understand? Do you feel like you need to understand everything? Do you hate condescension?
Wondering how many peeps can relate to this.
I have the strong desire to crack the skull open of condecending people.
I don't feel like I need to understand everything, there's loads of deep philosiphical threads on here that I don't understand and don't want to take time to understand.
I can't agree with what I don't understand.
My desire to understand is reflected in how much I care about the topic that I'm looking into.
I voted no. I don't struggle to agree with something I don't understand because I don't attempt to agree with something I don't understand.
By understand I mean have at least some vague understanding of.
I don't fully understand evolution and everything involved with it but I agree with mainstream science regarding evolution based on the understanding I have of it.
If one of the math wizards (or witches) on here shows me the answer to a complicated maths question I won't agree with them, I might put my trust in them that their answer is correct but I don't think I'd class that as agreement.
I think there's a difference between me saying "Yeh this guy probably knows what he's talking about, he's been proven to be reliable and clever before." And saying I agree with that person.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
