That inner voice, the inner narration, doesn't bring us closer to learning new things.
The world explodes within us when we make repeated efforts to listen to the sounds around us, yet we cannot stop that voice from wasting the vast majority of our intellectual energy.
Do you make efforts to quite those unnecessary voices within us?
Do you cherish the quiet time you make?
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
~ George Carlin ~
Not sure what you mean by bumping...I maintain the threads I created. I think that is important in a philosophical arena.
I never post directly below a post that is mine. I just don't think that is correct etiquette. That's just me.
I believe a serious philosophy thread consists in a critical analysis of a thesis and in a reasoned defense of some claims.
If you advance a claim, your claim should be supported by argument.
I would think that when you make claims about a philosopher you have read, make sure that you support your interpretation with references to specific passages.
And always, ALWAYS maintain and moderate your thread.
The reason I kind-of focus upon my own threads is that useually I feel strongly about the subjects that I write about and, believe it or not, at times, there are members here that do NOT appreciate my use of images in addition to my literal expressions yet. So, I try and not offend them by jumping into their threads and possibly fuckin-up their juju.
I will ALWAYS yield to my moderators. You are my agents. You have save me at least three marriages and miles of possible shame with my friends. So ALWAYS do what you feel is right - you don't have to run it by me beforehand out here in the forum or in a personal message.
Oh, and while you are here. Thank you for all your help. THANK YOU.
Hmm - when I opened this thread it's because in one of the simplest of ways I've said the same exact words quite a few times. How many times have we all started talking, telling a story, presenting a thought to another person and somewhere in the midst of it they jump in talking with often their immediate response to the beginning of your statement, sometimes even worse with the thought they were already having themselves or that randomly jumped out of them? Of course we all do it in normal conversation to some extent, but to be aware of that we can't listen and talk at the same time we should try as much as possible not to.
As for the series of responses in succession I will say they got rather defensive, possibly hostile. I do quite appreciate, indeed am quite glad to find people who think and feel passionately about posing the deep questions of life and exchanging viewpoints with others on them. I'm not sure we always need to make a "claim" then a "conclusion"...many times I myself prefer to view it as an active series of interdependent and successive ideas that evolve to bring us closer to the truth.
Lastly, I will note that going back to the we can't listen and talk at the same time phrase, listening and talking are things we do not just with words, spoken, written, typed or otherwise, listening and talking more importantly begin on an emotional, mental, and spiritual plane. Both the gifs (which I find whimsical, if cluttered on screen) and the denunciation of them (which I find rather pointless) miss the point that listening to others depends on understand how and why they express the things they do the way they do, and within even that are stylistic differences. On a site like this however, the acrimonious spirit of this thread is not very well suited, and it's what happens when what should be a respectful, understanding and empathetic communication of ideas becomes emotionally charged by....well...people who aren't *quite* listening, because they didn't quiet their emotions enough to *hear* what the other is really saying. Even if I think a gif is no way to communicate a "philosophy" it's because that person's idea of philosophy I suppose, is different than mine. The reaction however I think reflects the same loss of empathy.
Indeed given the thread line there's no telling how my thoughts may sound, but I can tell you, I did listen, and then I responded with respect.
