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?