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Is it possible to know what you are doing?

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juniorcat said:
Is it possible to know what you are doing?
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as with everything, it depends on a definition of terms. what's your definition of know?

do i 'know' i'm typing this response? as in, am i directly perceiving the fact that i am typing? sure. therefore i know what i'm doing.

or do you mean 'know what you are doing' in the sense of 'have the required skills to defuse that bomb'? or any one of many other possibilities?

alasdair
 
parts of us understand (have a model of) certain things.

problems arise when parts of us are blocked from other parts, leading to internal tension...

you can take this same lens and look at society as a whole, as well, and beyond...
 
i think it is possible to "know"(to think you know, or feel some sort of security in your place at that certain time?) what you are doing, but when the chaos of everything is considered, the knowing part becomes kind of a joke.
 
I liked this thread all I can tell you is that I dont have any clue what im doing, its a wonder one day were born, one day we die. It is definitely possible to think you know what you are doing, but I kind of took it in a "know" kind of way as in some kind of contemplation like to know what its all about and I would say I still dont "get it" or know it all, yet knowledge seems relative to the scientific paradigm, and perception of the people making the claims its all subject to change and true in some eyes false in others. Whos to say what it means to know or what truth is. On the other hand there are some very clear things in life we can know and science maps it, but i feel like im stoned and rambling
 
Well, I think I am sitting on a couch which belonged to my dead dog, off a road named after exports from Italia, which is residing by a bay connected to a great ocean of bonded hydrogen and oxygen that rests on a rock called Earth, which is being tugged by the moon's pull, which is less than six million miles away, that is orbiting a great sphere of condensed hydrogen spewing out deadly but exotic radiation in an elliptical orbit, that is next to a twirling belt, if you will, of stagnant and potentially dangerous matter long since coalesced from the ejected remains of stars I will probably never know of, that marks a rough half way point between the cold, outer planets, that rotates around a magnanimous chunk of mass that's gravitational pull captures everything within 300,000 light years, which churns and spins amongst other galaxies in cosmic gravitational web of fucking who knows what.

So yeah, we're moving right along, and we're definitely doing something that I'm not sure you've the bandwidth to gather.
 
CrackAndScrabble said:
Agreed Fridge.

Thats why I asked him for his thoughts on the subject. Sometimes you just gotta poke and prod people.
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What do I think?

I think the world and the state it is currently in is the perfect example of people not knowing what they are doing.
I see alot of people claiming to know what they are doing, pretending so as to get attention and acknowledgement.
Heck, judging by the look of people's faces and how convinced
they come across as knowing the meaning of life in more words or less, you'd think a lot of people do know what they are doing.
All I can do is speak from personal perspective and from knowing the people I know well who have opened up after a long time.
I think if people were more honest from the get-go and didn't lie to avoid shame and to build their own ego then we would come to see
that most people aren't as cool as they portray.
 
fridgebuzz said:
Well, I think I am sitting on a couch which belonged to my dead dog, off a road named after exports from Italia, which is residing by a bay connected to a great ocean of bonded hydrogen and oxygen that rests on a rock called Earth, which is being tugged by the moon's pull, which is less than six million miles away, that is orbiting a great sphere of condensed hydrogen spewing out deadly but exotic radiation in an elliptical orbit, that is next to a twirling belt, if you will, of stagnant and potentially dangerous matter long since coalesced from the ejected remains of stars I will probably never know of, that marks a rough half way point between the cold, outer planets, that rotates around a magnanimous chunk of mass that's gravitational pull captures everything within 300,000 light years, which churns and spins amongst other galaxies in cosmic gravitational web of fucking who knows what.

So yeah, we're moving right along, and we're definitely doing something that I'm not sure you've the bandwidth to gather.
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No, but talking about it helps. Thanks for the link by the way. ' that will ensure Europe’s continued leadership in space activities.'
Why Europe?
 
juniorcat said:
What do I think?

I think the world and the state it is currently in is the perfect example of people not knowing what they are doing.
I see alot of people claiming to know what they are doing, pretending so as to get attention and acknowledgement.
Heck, judging by the look of people's faces and how convinced
they come across as knowing the meaning of life in more words or less, you'd think a lot of people do know what they are doing.
All I can do is speak from personal perspective and from knowing the people I know well who have opened up after a long time.
I think if people were more honest from the get-go and didn't lie to avoid shame and to build their own ego then we would come to see
that most people aren't as cool as they portray.
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alasdairm said:
^ "i don't have a problem with what i'm doing, i just have a problem with what you're doing"?

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alasdair
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why would you assume that juniorcat isn't applying this same lens introspectively at the same time?
 
juniorcat said:
What do I think?

I think the world and the state it is currently in is the perfect example of people not knowing what they are doing.
I see alot of people claiming to know what they are doing, pretending so as to get attention and acknowledgement.
Heck, judging by the look of people's faces and how convinced
they come across as knowing the meaning of life in more words or less, you'd think a lot of people do know what they are doing.
All I can do is speak from personal perspective and from knowing the people I know well who have opened up after a long time.
I think if people were more honest from the get-go and didn't lie to avoid shame and to build their own ego then we would come to see
that most people aren't as cool as they portray.
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Whew! Finally.
juniorcat said:
No, but talking about it helps. Thanks for the link by the way. ' that will ensure Europe’s continued leadership in space activities.'
Why Europe?
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It doesn't matter who has leadership just so long as life on Earth continues to study space. I'm all for the Chinese returning to the Moon since the bloody U.S. is blowing it right now. Nobody seems to care about exploration anymore. We're just a bunch of so-called intelligent beings who think we have it all figured out, yet perpetually fight one another for the same disclosed reasons. It's a frightening and equally scared world and the only cure is greater understanding.
 
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