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Bhaskar.ing - I would think it unusual for someone not to see the
error of their thinking when reflecting from 3 or 4 decades further along.
posted by
gomedome
on May 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM
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Gomedome, sorry that I wasn' so clear but might have been cryptic.
People when young, think themselves to be on the top of the world. Their convictions, their thinking, their beliefs ... everything they do, etc ... they know that they are right. Later on, when old, they often see how wrong they were ... this I used in the cave metaphor.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on May 24, 2008 at 9:39 PM
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The more I learn the less I know. Personal attack are always unwarranted. I have always had a special relationship with the Lord. But, it remains that, mine. We are all very different and it is pure conjecture for anyone to pass judgment on another because the one passing judgment may be the most woeful in the end. sam
posted by
sam444
on May 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM
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Bhaskar.ing - I'm not quite following your metaphor
posted by
gomedome
on May 23, 2008 at 9:31 AM
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benzinha - I specifically remember at that age vowing to not become the
person I later became.
"Profit" was a dirty word back then and it was okay to ostracize anyone who was different, yeah the good old days. As for the tree, assuming you mean the tree of knowledge, I always thought that the person who dreamt up that story as a means of explaining the human condition should have been fired for lousy storytelling. Seriously, what is the point of a message that puts knowledge off limits?
posted by
gomedome
on May 23, 2008 at 9:30 AM
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Gomedome
The peaks from where one looks down upon the world at 20 can become the vary caves where one may have to hide at 50. It could be vice versa also.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on May 22, 2008 at 10:41 PM
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IIIIII sure don't have the answers, but I am diligently searching for them.
Remember the enthusiastic discussions in youth?? What fun, what idealism, what radicalism, what rigidity in some cases.
And it is sweet that they approach us mouldy oldsters with our own ancient ideas, ideas since researched and understood better and dismissed or worked upon and modified....but tossed in our faces like a water balloon by today's kiddies.
Of course, we did it in our youth. The circle of life, the circle of thinking, the circle of experience.
So, where the heck did that tree come from??
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM
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Re: The answers.
An excellent article, Gomedome! It was full of maturity and wisdom, and describes almost verbatim the process of my own "religious maturity" over the years. I have stated over and over again for at least the last 25 years that no one of my beliefs, excluding none of the set, are carved in stone. Of course, if I knew which one or more of them were wrong, then I would discard it or them. But I do not know which one or ones of them are in error, although I have modified or entirely rejected many of them over that same timeframe.
And yes, I, too, admit freely and willingly that I do not have the answers! I rely heavily on probability and statics, but, still, this only conjecture.
Thanks for your article.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on May 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM
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mysteria - Re: I agree that my beliefs change and flux over time
In 10,000 years we can assume that the landscape of religious beliefs worldwide would have no resemblence to today. When it is considered how much beliefs have changed in recorded history and we factor in the pace of discovery in the modern era, it seems probable that entire new paradigms will have been established and matured by then.
posted by
gomedome
on May 22, 2008 at 6:21 PM
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I agree that my beliefs change and flux over time
Which has me wondering, if, after a life 10,000 years long, what on Earth would I believe in then? hmmmmmmm....
posted by
mysteria
on May 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM
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