I do too, but sometimes it's difficult - I have so many opinions, suppositions, and assumptions to sort through. Some of which I'm passionate about. I find it hard to give up on passions. Even to reexamine them.
I have my "self", and then a whole bunch of other stuff around it.
Other stuff? Like what? I don't quite understand. But then I don't quite understand what my own (rather too strong) sense of self consists of either.
there is a lovely theory that says that all or most of the characters written, in books etc, are "reflections" or echoes of people who live, in the past or parallel.
How cool.
we are, as someone stated here before me, human - and as such, possibly don't know everything just yet.
That, I certainly believe! And the mind is one of the greatest mysteries.
As for rationality: I'm all for it, but it's parameters are not clear cut. If I only believed what I saw or experienced, I'd think Nicaragua and Paraguay did not exist. If I only believed what I fully understood, well, that wouldn't leave a heck of a lot.
In general, I am better at emotional responses than intellectual ones, let alone scientific ones - so art, literature and the popular media shape my world more than, say, engineering and a knowledge of physics. Does this make me unrealistic? I don't think so. Irrational? I don't think that, either. I am, in fact, exceptionally rational. But the parameters of my reason are open to the unexplainable.
A hundred years ago, it would have been irrational to believe in quantum theory. Now, whether we understand it or not (and we don't, as a species)most people who know of it believe in it.
If "belief" is the word. It isn't a faith, but a ... probable aspect of reality.
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Date: 2008-02-15 04:44 pm (UTC)I do too, but sometimes it's difficult - I have so many opinions, suppositions, and assumptions to sort through. Some of which I'm passionate about. I find it hard to give up on passions. Even to reexamine them.
I have my "self", and then a whole bunch of other stuff around it.
Other stuff? Like what? I don't quite understand. But then I don't quite understand what my own (rather too strong) sense of self consists of either.
there is a lovely theory that says that all or most of the characters written, in books etc, are "reflections" or echoes of people who live, in the past or parallel.
How cool.
we are, as someone stated here before me, human - and as such, possibly don't know everything just yet.
That, I certainly believe! And the mind is one of the greatest mysteries.
As for rationality: I'm all for it, but it's parameters are not clear cut. If I only believed what I saw or experienced, I'd think Nicaragua and Paraguay did not exist. If I only believed what I fully understood, well, that wouldn't leave a heck of a lot.
In general, I am better at emotional responses than intellectual ones, let alone scientific ones - so art, literature and the popular media shape my world more than, say, engineering and a knowledge of physics. Does this make me unrealistic? I don't think so. Irrational? I don't think that, either. I am, in fact, exceptionally rational. But the parameters of my reason are open to the unexplainable.
A hundred years ago, it would have been irrational to believe in quantum theory. Now, whether we understand it or not (and we don't, as a species)most people who know of it believe in it.
If "belief" is the word. It isn't a faith, but a ... probable aspect of reality.