encode_decode wrote:
Your kind words to me were definitely an affirmation.
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I am not sure what brought on this statement. I will say here though that having been here for a while now, you must have observed that most in here actually do that. That is not to say that it is always done with the greatest cognition. I may be speaking of myself here.
I do that and I observe that many others will do that. I see nothing right or wrong in it.
If we know of a particular person who ONLY prefers the person to whom they are posting to be the only one to respond – well, then, I can’t really say if that is right or wrong. I can’t even know if that would be, in actuality, disrespect to do. What some disrespect is clearly not disrespect. It is a question of perspective. But to me it would be no big thing. I would simply not respond. I am in some ways a nihilist. lol
We all choose for ourselves how we ought to live.
That would seem to be reasonable and appropriate from my point of view. That doesn’t mean that others will adhere to your mode of behavior. But then again, you will adjust that…
That would depend on what you actually mean by that. Communication can be very difficult and at other times it may not be. It might depend on whom we are communicating with and our individual styles of language.
But one might give up just at the moment when meaning might come in. Did that make sense to you?
Who is the original author? As for the second part, I don’t necessarily agree with you there.
Isn’t meaning and also truth (in degrees) to be found in one thinking for one’s self, not necessarily mental copying and pasting of the work of others?
Oh, maybe I didn’t understand what you were saying at first. Perhaps you are thinking like me in that respect - meaning is not to be found ONLY in the words of the author? Is that it?
I also hold logic in high esteem, along with personal experience.
Yes, it is and sometimes it is not even a choice which we make, as to the last part. Meaning at times happens to us because who we are where we live (not geographically) but because of our minds and emotions we also choose what meaning is for us.
Ah, the light goes on.
If we are dealing with human beings, encode_ decode, we are also dealing with nature. That’s why it is called human nature. Even the nature which we observe around us is closely related to our own natures.
You mean perfect moments? Yes I can but as I said they are not lasting/eternal though one can recall them through memory. They are absolute in a sense because they are real but for a time only. I say that with both my reason and my emotions.
I’m glad to hear this since i have no idea what it means. My pay rate is somewhere in the dirt where your’s is in the celestial sphere. hahaha
Yes, I think that I can probably understand where you are coming from there.
Ouch!! But at least it was worth something to me. We all see meaning and beauty differently though.
Can we help ourselves? Sure, some can try to arrive at more reason and some can try to arrive at more of the human experience. We as INDIVIDUALS are always going to lean more on one side or the other.
But can we actually come to find truth, some truth, if there is too much reason or too much of the human experience alone? Wouldn’t a marriage of both be more conducive to truth?
Are you speaking to me here, encode_decode? I am actually quite happy to try to see things from another’s point of view. That may not change mine but maybe it will. We all see with different lenses and I think that we can see more if we can see another’s point of view, no? At least, to think about it. We cannot know everything. Even a guy like Copernicus made that silly mistake about the Sun but was it so silly considering what they did not know at that time.
If you are speaking to me, kindly point out to me where you think you SEEM to have done that to me. I can’t actually recall your having done that.
Don’t worry about the preaching. Sometimes that cannot be avoided. I still have not learned how to get out of preaching mode when I am posting at times.
Maybe that comes from listening to too many homilies at Sunday Mass. I don’t know.
I still have to learn how to not do that.
Kind regards to you too,
arc