In most instances I surrender to my passions when coming to a decision because to do otherwise in my opinion is to instead surrender to intellectual apathy. Let me explain. I don’t rush into a decision, I weigh my options with logic and patience. However personal experience has taught me that my initial reaction was the correct one. Good and evil are points of view, and truth is subjective but merely from a philosophical viewpoint not one based in day to day interactions. We know that certain things are plainly wrong, Malum in se. I have often attributed (incorrectly) that I was just “ahead of the crowd” or not a “sheep” often overlooking my own history for the variable that has led to my insights being mostly correct. For the better part of five years I worked in an Arcade; not glamorous I know, but during that time I also read voraciously. In fact during that time I read a 300 to 400 page book every day. The subject matter was not fiction either. I read history, philosophy, military history, religious history, art history, and military philosophy as well. These books about 1,305 give or take over the course of 5 years taught me much, but wisdom is not so much learned as it is experienced. I had to see in real life scenarios both mine and others which of these masters of the written word (sometimes) were right and which were wrong. “So the Force is not real” well yes and no, (for me anyway) because I don’t (and you probably do it too) often consider my own history as a bias for evaluation, it is “acting” like the force but it isn’t at the same time. A paradox of my own short attention span, and what I have deemed worthy of deleting from my own cognitive measuring stick. How does one deal with this…..well you remember it from time to time….and sometimes you make a rambling note of it…and share it with friends.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:11:53 +0000
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