Saquist, you're smart and you are open-minded. But you are too self-righteous.
I prefer and have often be called, "overconfident"
You really need to trust other people more
I can not. I've learned not to. There are ones that have deceived me in the past One must gain my trust. Those people that do hold my respect have proven to be balanced and repectful of all things. I aspire to this.
Very few people in life or At the moment, the only person you give any amount of credence is yourself.
I can only say that that is implicitly untrue. Mines is the opinion I'm least likely to hold. I'm always in search of greater understanding. My opinion is commonly wrong, which is what "Saquist means...too be in error." That's how I live in a constant state of recognizing that at any moment I may be wrong, proven wrong.
We are all different, we all have our own limitations. By trusting other people (based on their own awareness and lack of intent to decieve) then you could be even smarter than you are now. By accepting their subjective experiences, you allow yourself to gain information that was once locked behind the door of individuality.
If the sum of my experiences hadn't molded me to constantly question the status quo I'd likely be as most others here. But I've been molded to research search, correlate and subject the facts to probabilites with the strict black and white conclusions.
I am not saying trust anyone blindly, but rather, trust that the reason they aren't giving in is as strong as your own. You are not absolutely right about everything. In fact, everyone is slightly wrong about everything. No one ever was right. But you can get closer to the truth.
Roy trust is perhaps my biggest emotional issue. That's why I feel nothing about what anyone says about me thinks about me...However alarming it may be...but I'm alot like Cho Seng...damage to an extent, fustrated at the world's inqueities...It's a powerful emotion...It's overriding. I relate with him alot. Not with his actions but how he felt. I can't emphase enough how much I've empathized with him. But I've found a control...and a preasure valve.
You may try to label me as a scientist, or evolutionist, or as being swayed by the mainstream, but I am no more so than yourself
.
For me most things "Are" until proven otherwise. It's a hard way to view the world. I end up being wrong alot. It's a perspective that requires a lot of revisions.
I do not avidly adopt the latest scientific standard. I do not search for reasons to justify what I believe.
I can't say the same. Some things I've accpeted other I don't. I have searched for reasons to justify my own beliefe and reasons not to. What you will never get to see is the latter process. I'll never compromise my status quo on an internet forum of debate on the moment I discover I'm wrong. It takes time to arrest and correct a false belief and I do so in private in order to come to grips with the new reality and prepare for a retraction and appology. Whether this is right or not... I don't know. but the process hasn't left me dishonest.
I do not choose the people I spend time with based on their beliefs. All my evidence is what comes to me, not what I go to. For the most part, I am motivated to have no preconceived notions, not because I want to, but because I can't help it.
commendable...not to be biased or hostile in someway. I can claim to be exactly that but very often I've already made a preconceived notion. My mind plays out like a court room...my preception is sometimes guilty...sometimes innocent. It dependents on who and what.
The only reason for which I believe anything is that at the moment of recognition or association (to that which it applies) there is a sudden 'click' like a piece of a puzzle falling into place. I cannot explain it other than the feeling of a structure, or shape in my mind which encompasses the entire idea. If it flows cohesively and smoothly, then it is correct.[/QUOTE]
Yes, patterns....I like patterns too. Logic flows in patterns