I don't think I've seen a sadder statement in years...
I guess the sarcasm wasn't apparent.
I felt the conversation was getting a little ridiculous, and therefor required an equally ridiculous statement.
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I guess the sarcasm wasn't apparent.
I felt the conversation was getting a little ridiculous, and therefor required an equally ridiculous statement.
My apologies then. You are correct, I just didn't see it.
vulcanlogician
Well-Known Member
Life experience deals with (or contains) practical concerns, but how is life itself practical? A hammer is a practical tool for hammering nails. What practical purpose does life itself serve?
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
breathing, walking, etc.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
keep it simple bro
Practical life. Observation of people and of my own reactions. Have you ever observed observation in others. It's totally amazing ... the variety.
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
Intuitive thinking has expanded my theology far above where most people feel comfortable thinking. Instead of thinking what is I like to think what can and should be. That's what led me to believe in syntheism, exaltism and perfectionism.
I consider intuitive thinking an oxymoron.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
what can be, no doubt
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I looked up the term "intuitive thinking" on Google to see what it would pull up. Essentially it said that it's instinctive thinking. When I use that term I am usually referring to intuition rather than sensing, thinking about the big picture rather than what is around me currently, and sensing my environment. I'm referring to the Myers-Bigg Personality type, as I am an INTJ myself. But in other contexts I know that can be confusing. What I really meant is that I gain knowledge and wisdom from reflective, and then re-reflective thinking, which I know now means the opposite of intuition. I have a synthetic brain which allows me to reach idea C just from understanding idea A and B, and most people who understand A and B just combine them into AB, whereas I make something completely new, C, with that. I call that my intuition, which I realize now that might be oxymoronic. Sorry for the confusion.
Listening to the wise is also a source of wisdom for me. There is the farmer on the road story to illustrate:
Every day a commuter drives past a farmer tending his sheep on the side of the road. Eventually he decides to stop, and the farmer tells him there will be 2 horses on road just over the next hill. Sure enough, there are two horses on the road. So the next day the curious commuter stops again. The farmer tells him he'll meet am old Studebaker over the hill. And so it goes ... that farmer is always right. Eventually the commuter figures out the farmer is wise, and listens to him.
Every day a commuter drives past a farmer tending his sheep on the side of the road. Eventually he decides to stop, and the farmer tells him there will be 2 horses on road just over the next hill. Sure enough, there are two horses on the road. So the next day the curious commuter stops again. The farmer tells him he'll meet am old Studebaker over the hill. And so it goes ... that farmer is always right. Eventually the commuter figures out the farmer is wise, and listens to him.
Yeah, I just call intuition intuition, and reflection reflection.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
you sure?
Wisdom? Try experience and investigation.
All of your life's experiences, if you review them honestly and with an open mind, will make you wiser. And all research, aided by the scientific method, will do the same.
Some of the resulting wisdom will be knowledge of facts -- some of them even useful.
Experience will often give you the wisdom to understand that, whatever you think, or hope for, humans may not comply -- and wisdom is knowing not to count on them doing so.
Truth in love
Well-Known Member
The text is the rules for the game. What is in bounds and out of bounds. A little bit on the theory of the game.
Life is when we play. We put things into action. If we don’t have the rules we spend a lot of time coping with penalties that we don’t understand.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Me neither.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
or in my 69.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I guess we are a lot alike because I am an INFJ, and it describes me to a T.
Sometimes referred to as the "Advocate" or the "Idealist," people with this personality type often feel misunderstood.
Perhaps it's because INFJ is the rarest MBTI personality type, making up only 1% to 3% of the U.S. population.1 Or maybe it's because they're walking, talking contradictions. INFJs are easy-going perfectionists. They're both logical and emotional, creative and analytical.
What Personality Traits Are Characteristic of INFJs
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
First by reading the spiritual scriptures, than practicing it in daily life.
stvdv
Veteran Member
Most enlightening for me was:
"Experiencing what Spiritual texts claim"