Yeah, yeah.
One of things I've learned is that in an infinite universe, no matter how smart you are, how many facts you know, or how well you can juxtapose facts with your own experience and reason, you will always come across someone just a bit smarter, fact-laden, traveled and reasonable.
Each person also wholeheartedly believes their viewpoint is the accurate one and the other guy is wrong.
In an unbiased view of the universe everyone is right and all views are true.
So the goal is to keep moving around and gaining new viewpoints, new perspectives which add to any truth, give it a bit more depth and more facets. One of life's goals is to discover that the truths you know are falsehoods from another perspective.
One can't ever acquire a fully infinite viewpoint with every possible perspective covered, but one can acquire a subset that gets ever more complex.
I only know an infinitely small amount. Socrates said it well long ago to his detractors: "All I know is that I know nothing."
I know some folks who put my viewpoints to shame. It's almost humiliating how they can best me with more reason and, importantly, even more compassion than I can muster. Fortunately, they don't judge me or exploit my ignorance for their own entertainment.
I'm lucky to know them.
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SDAI sux!
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- With all due respect (which isn't much), - - -
- Heh, I have no idea who you are talking about...but!
- It's not gloating you idget . What Romney says resonates with conservatives. Like it or not. n/t
- SDAI sux!
- "Intellectual"
