Tag: thinking

As the world goes on things in gen­er­al become slight­ly clear­er to me.
Humans are hyp­ocrites. We just are. Just accept it.
But it some­times con­founds me in the sub­tle­ty.
One that that I realised today is that no mat­ter how much I might actu­al­ly know about the best way oth­er peo­ple should pro­ceed in a sit­u­a­tion, noth­ing will stop them from blun­der­ing in and mak­ing their own mis­takes any­way.

I just got off the phone to the Tax Office. I rang them, was on the phone for less than 3 min­utes, got exact­ly the infor­ma­tion I need­ed and was spo­ken too in a polite and con­sid­er­ate fash­ion.
My guess is the guy had only start­ed the job today.

While at a cafe with a friend recent­ly, he stat­ed that he had lit­tle inter­este in the ancient phioso­pheres. I believe his rea­son (could be wrong on this bit) was a com­bi­na­tion of disslike for the for­mal aca­d­e­m­ic process, and a desire to be able to come to his own con­clu­sions about the world and stuff.
I asked him why not use the pre­vi­ous­ly thought thoughts as leapfrog and skip ahead to the next les­son. (Do frogs go to lessons?)
And we left it there.
In a dis­play of cir­cu­lar dis­cus­sion, I found an inter­est­ing quote by a fun­ny fel­low called Rene Descartes (known to some as Ducky). This chap is high­ly regard­ed in phi­los­o­phy cir­cles by peo­ple who are bet­ter read than I. His most famous tag line is “Cog­i­to ergo sum.” (Latin for: “I think; there­fore I am.”) Any­way, he also once said: “One can­not con­ceive any­thing so strange and so implau­si­ble that it has not already been said by one philoso­pher or anoth­er.”
I’ve the strangest feel­ing he was right… or maybe it’s just a belief, who can tell?