RE: Why Is Thinking Important?
November 9th 2006 02:45
Damo, you’re words, your thoughts, are too wealthy to be reduced to a few-word comment. Therefore I come here.
Our emotions are, yes, part of our reality. They do, indeed, let us understand and fully enjoy the wonderful. Oh, how I applaud and subscribe to that notion. Would that we could simply enjoy the enjoyable. But we can’t. We also need to understand there is a yang of life..
You’ve touched on the ‘wrong’ of emotions when you said “should a sadist be allowed express [sic] his feelings freely? Or should we think about the logical consequences of his answers?” I won’t pretend to know the answer, nor will expound on it now. Let that be the food of thought.
We do still have philosophers and thinkers with us and I long to be cast among them, even though I’ve so much more to learn. Someday, I might be blessed to be counted as one of them.
For today, let’s hold to the truths that we are a people who need each other; our powers of good and inspirational thought, as well as the things that hold us down give strength to others. Our wisdoms and our deficits give room for thought. We’re here to teach one to the other.
I’ll go not to speaking of war. Probably that’s a personal issue. An uncle I was never allowed to meet was killed in WWI; he was a pilot and that’s how he died. My father did his time in WWII, the trauma never left him. I am a child of the 60’s, Viet Nam. Forty years later, I still am left with nothing to understand. Oh, heck. Looks like I talked about war against my will. Apparently it’s an issue.
Thinking? Feeling? is there a difference? No. Who thinks and who feels IS.
Our emotions are, yes, part of our reality. They do, indeed, let us understand and fully enjoy the wonderful. Oh, how I applaud and subscribe to that notion. Would that we could simply enjoy the enjoyable. But we can’t. We also need to understand there is a yang of life..
You’ve touched on the ‘wrong’ of emotions when you said “should a sadist be allowed express [sic] his feelings freely? Or should we think about the logical consequences of his answers?” I won’t pretend to know the answer, nor will expound on it now. Let that be the food of thought.
We do still have philosophers and thinkers with us and I long to be cast among them, even though I’ve so much more to learn. Someday, I might be blessed to be counted as one of them.
For today, let’s hold to the truths that we are a people who need each other; our powers of good and inspirational thought, as well as the things that hold us down give strength to others. Our wisdoms and our deficits give room for thought. We’re here to teach one to the other.
I’ll go not to speaking of war. Probably that’s a personal issue. An uncle I was never allowed to meet was killed in WWI; he was a pilot and that’s how he died. My father did his time in WWII, the trauma never left him. I am a child of the 60’s, Viet Nam. Forty years later, I still am left with nothing to understand. Oh, heck. Looks like I talked about war against my will. Apparently it’s an issue.
Thinking? Feeling? is there a difference? No. Who thinks and who feels IS.
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Comment by Damo
My post on the importance of thinking is going to be the start of several posts on the subject of thinking clearly. I found it a very sad state of affairs when I ask younger people if they are studying Clear Thinking at school. The answer is consistantly no. 'Eeep!' I say to that, 'Double eep!' It goes along way to explain the desintergration of public debate to a screaming match. People are not being taught how to create an intelligent defense of a position. Yet they are being taught how to stack up support numbers and produce spin.
I have to admit that I do ask a lot of open ended or rhetorical questions? Sometimes they strike nerves and othertimes they are just unanswerable. Yet the process of replying to the question does require people to think. Even if someone disagrees with me, as long as they do so in an intelligent way I am in someway satisfied.
Clear thinking can never produce an ideology but it can test its validity of an ideology against your own beliefs. It is also useful to help create the defense of an argument.
My post is not about repression of emotions rather it is about how thinking helps us enjoy our emotions better.
Comment by Harmony Rocks
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What is 'eep'? I like it, but never heard it before.
When I digest your thoughts and can intelligently comment, I'll be back. Give me an hour.
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Comment by Damo
Its my primal alarm bell that goes off when I come across something that shocks me.
I could have said 'Bloody Hell!' but that takes longer to type.
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You could have said a lot of things that take longer to type. Perhaps 'eep' will soon become part of our language. We could use a nice word for 'bloody hell'.
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