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If there was no ignorance there would certainly be no science or religion.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on August 26, 2008 at 3:31 AM
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Re: I think you have to accept that you don't know about things to truly and ef
Christis,
This post today is just filled with comments from real thinkers of insight!! Thanks for yours!!
Gerald
posted by
GEPRUITT
on August 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM
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Re: Ignorance is the best wisdom
Kayzz,
Human nature is a strange, vainity-riddled beast! It doesn't want to be "told" anything, but, at the same time, it can't stand to be "kept from the truth!!"
Your comments are always well-balanced, fair, and welcomed.
Gerald
posted by
GEPRUITT
on August 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM
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Re: I think you have to accept that you don't know about things to truly and ef
This was, in my opininion, an exceptional and thought-filled reply! Thanks, thinker, for this comment.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on August 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM
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Re: Eternal Bliss
Great comment, mousehop! As for your last statement, I woulld say "yes, but I have an idea that if we were all born full of knowledge, we would RESENT it!!"
posted by
GEPRUITT
on August 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM
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Eternal Bliss
This question reminds me of something I heard in a Sunday School class once. The teacher asked what the first step in repentance was.
"Well, first you have to commit a sin," someone said. Then, after a pause, he added, "So I guess sinning is good, then, right? since we're all supposed to repent."
But there is always going to be enough ignorance in our lives to keep us asking, at least in the foreseeable future of the human race.
posted by
mousehop
on August 25, 2008 at 8:46 AM
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Ignorance is the best wisdom
posted by
Kayzzaman
on August 25, 2008 at 4:38 AM
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I think you have to accept that you don't know about things to truly and ef
fectively learn about them. If you jump to a conclusion and decide it was right just because that's where you concluded, you may entirely miss the truth of reality. If you admit that you think this, BUT... you still don't know, you can go back to the reality, which IS the truth, and make your interpretation of that truth more perfect. Interpretations are just tools mankind uses to describe what exists.
posted by
christis
on August 25, 2008 at 4:19 AM
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