If there's someone giving you advices, suggestions, and wise words, you should listen to him, even if he is giving a bad example himself. The question is, why?
2006-06-09 17:40:34 · 16 answers · asked by voice.from.above 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because even a bad answer can shed light on things. For one thing, you learn what a bad answer is and can compare it to the good ones. If he is just a bad example, depending on the meaning of that, his answers may be very good while his hygiene could be awful. No one should go unheard when you are seeking answers to questions. The more data collected, the more sound the decision. Good question!!
2006-06-09 17:45:59 · answer #1 · answered by roritr2005 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's my honest answer from the heart...
From my experience, I have been real good at giving advice and being completely serious about what I was saying but ~ not practicing my own advice. And although, I knew what I needed to do, I didn't actually do it. I sometimes joke and tell others, who look up to me a bit, to "do as I say, not as I do" because I sometimes fail, we all do. No one is perfect and that's okay! Most people are aware of what is right and what they need to do in life and they enjoy sharing their knowledge and advice with others. It's sometimes a struggle to apply the advice to your own self. If I'm pointing a finger at someone else and advising them of something, I've got 3 fingers always pointing back at me. Know what I mean...
Well, I hope I helped. Thanks for listening.
2006-06-10 00:51:35 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Brooke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well truth isn't so logical
And if you're put off by a person's sensibilities...
you may not want to attribute much value/truth
to what they're saying even IF they present perfect arguments.
If they treat their body poorly, are ill-mannered, seem unhealthy of spirit-- then yes, their 'necessary' truths become questionable. If they are not true to themselves, how can their assumptions add up to truth? When a scientist sits down to discover something.. she has the answer in her mind already, unformulated.. but available. It is the object, what "needs" to be proved.
The objective character of knowledge really is subsumed by the individual's prerogatives.. to prove to the universe their beliefs, emotions, instincts and body humors.. It is to extend one's identity beyond the self and become infectious, greater, More.
See all of this "should" be discounted by ad hominem. But that 'fallacy' of 'against the man' AND NOT the facts.. begs the question whether they are so separable.
2006-06-10 01:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old saying about old wine in new bottles or is it new wine in old bottles. There is another one about not judging a book by its cover.
The old drunk may not be able to overcome his own demons that drove him into the gutter, but he may be able to spot the same problem in someone else.
I have known dozens of psychologists and psychiatrists during the last 30 odd years. Almost all of them were competent and actually helped their patients become better functioning human beings. All of them had the same mix of sense and nonsense that everyone else has in their private lives.
2006-06-10 00:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by shoshidad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a lot of people can't see what they are themselves. and/or maybe that they lived it and even though they can't turn back time, they want to give the younger "them" a chance to make that different choice. the reason why these sorts of people are worth listening to is b/c you will probably be in the same place that person is now if you don't take his/her advice.
2006-06-10 01:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by Mommy85201 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like King Solomon? The wisest man that ever lived but was the biggest whoremonger, idolizing, over-indulging person we could examine.
Yes. King Solomon gave great advice to leaders, kings, queens and to his people. So my answer is: glean from the person's wisdom and become that example for him or her.
2006-06-10 01:40:16 · answer #6 · answered by blakelycollierbrown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You always know what is wrong and what is wright yourself,so basically you don't need any advisers.And about giving a bad example-that is why God gave us a free will-we are aloud to make fools of ourselves.
2006-06-10 03:03:49 · answer #7 · answered by K* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because things are way easier said than done.
This person can say the right things but find it extremely hard to do in their owm personal life.
Why do you think some psychologists need psychologists to help THEM with their lives? Ironic, huh?
2006-06-10 01:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by ms . BK 030 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because even a bad example of himself can be a good example to you in his advice or suggestion to you....maybe he dont want you to be the same to him....i mean in his mistakes.....
2006-06-10 01:02:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are each others teachers and each others pupils. You decide which you are, and who the other is, more often than not we are the pupil when believe we are the teacher
2006-06-10 06:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by WW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋