Why Thinking Is Over-rated
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Why Thinking Is Over-rated
Look out any window.
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I think I need to clean the bird shit off.
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When I look out my window I mostly notice all of the beautiful women walking by.
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Are New York men really the horniest on the planet, or is that just a carefully cultivated front?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:30 am When I look out my window I mostly notice all of the beautiful women walking by.
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Imagine! said Einstein. Am I getting hotter/colder?
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The idea is that man's attempt to improve upon Reality [via conceptual thought] continues to be an abject failure. Conceptual thinking takes what is and transforms it into what is thought to be [which almost always seems to be some kind of bizarre dystopian reality].
Instead of imagining, perhaps accepting what it is might serve our species better.
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And the converse of conceptual thinking is, what... psychological thinking, or psychological (see Jacoby on) understanding or (ap)perception? Not to understand another person's reasoning, but to understand him psychologically? (E. g. Schopenhauer's Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten)simplicity wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:52 amThe idea is that man's attempt to improve upon Reality [via conceptual thought] continues to be an abject failure. Conceptual thinking takes what is and transforms it into what is thought to be [which almost always seems to be some kind of bizarre dystopian reality].
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Who else were you thinking of? (I'm just curious who else was saying something like I said above.)vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:34 amAre New York men really the horniest on the planet, or is that just a carefully cultivated front?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:30 am When I look out my window I mostly notice all of the beautiful women walking by.
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to over rate anything requires thought
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What is "the" pain?simplicity wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:33 pmI believe you will find that said excrement is beyond the pain.
If you mean cleaning it off is not worth the trouble you are wrong. You should see my garden.
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It was a play on words [window pane]. Being that the pain is a product of our conceptual thinking, cleaning it off is not only worthwhile, it is an imperative to creating balance in one's life.Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:48 pmWhat is "the" pain?simplicity wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:33 pmI believe you will find that said excrement is beyond the pain.
If you mean cleaning it off is not worth the trouble you are wrong. You should see my garden.
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You can only understand somebody's actions, never their motivations. There are an infinite number of reasons why people do the simplest of things, therefore it is beyond human comprehension.Fja1 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 2:43 amAnd the converse of conceptual thinking is, what... psychological thinking, or psychological (see Jacoby on) understanding or (ap)perception? Not to understand another person's reasoning, but to understand him psychologically? (E. g. Schopenhauer's Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten)simplicity wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:52 amThe idea is that man's attempt to improve upon Reality [via conceptual thought] continues to be an abject failure. Conceptual thinking takes what is and transforms it into what is thought to be [which almost always seems to be some kind of bizarre dystopian reality].
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Exactly.
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No, but you can trigger others' actions psychologically, even without much conceptual thinking. That's what the Schopenhauer book is about.simplicity wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:05 pmYou can only understand somebody's actions, never their motivations. There are an infinite number of reasons why people do the simplest of things, therefore it is beyond human comprehension.