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jadedog  ·  2783 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A fun challenge. How to answer the "Why" kid.

    That's when all the dots started connecting at hyper-speed and all the puzzle pieces began rapidly falling into place. It's not just logic and self evidence that tells me I'm on the right track but pursuit of this principle has also lead me to experience some incredible hyper-dimensional phenomena that afforded me some normally unavailable points of view and helped expand my perspective even further. After all, that's precisely what allowance, acceptance, inclusion, aka Love, does. Is it not?

I wouldn't know. I haven't experienced hyper-dimensional phenomena, unless you're defining it differently than the usual way. I've heard that you can get that from some good drugs, but I wouldn't know about that either.

The thing about not investing in formal knowledge is that it's possible to delude oneself into thinking one's theory hasn't been thought about and tested a million times before. It can lead people to reinvent the wheel when it's already been done.

Thanks for the response though.





GB_Cobber  ·  2783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dis-investing is not necessarily discounting. It's simply like not putting money on a horse, to not gamble. It doesn't mean I think the horse is going to lose.

By dis-investing in beliefs I'm simply eliminating inherent biases so I can approach situations neutrally. That neutrality is what allows novelty, including novel experiences.

It is not my contention that formal knowledge is wrong, only that there is always going to be more to it than any conclusion can convey and those limitations cause assumptions and errors.

No conclusion is absolute. A conclusion is an ending. All endings are relative. Thus all conclusions are merely rational, not logical.

jadedog  ·  2783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    No conclusion is absolute. A conclusion is an ending. All endings are relative. Thus all conclusions are merely rational, not logical.

Including yours.

Why?

Because yes.

GB_Cobber  ·  2783 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The thing about Yes is that it's not a conclusion, it's not an ending. It's the beginning.