Was there a time you considered knowledge to be a burden?

Question

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Answer 1

Yes, there are several instances actually. First, as mentioned earlier, when I knew something that I could never tell or had not wanted to know in the first place. For example, if I overheard something about one of my best friends, or if one of them told me a secret. Such knowledge then becomes a burden because you have to pretend that you don't know it.

Another time is when I'm forced to learn something I didn't want to know. Calculus, for example, is something I loathe; not because it's not interesting but simply because I don't want to know it. Then again, I suppose you could characterize that as finding the aquisition of such knowledge a burden as opposed to the actual knowledge itself.

Answer 2

Yes. knowledge is power is responsibility. There was a time that I wished I was an idiot and had no concept of the horrors in the world. That I could just blissfully roam the planet without the ability to ponder and form any sort of conclusion.

But then I grew up and have come to know that good isn't so good unless it lays against the backdrop of some bad. And now I take it all as it comes, knowing that life is simply a series of causes and effects becoming more causes for more effects, both good and bad making me into something wonderful, I hope.

Answer 3

What time is it now?...lol

No, seriously though yeah, it was actually not too long ago. It came in the form of a conversation i was having with a former colleague when I came to realize that they were intimidated by the amount of knowledge that I had accumulated over my travels and experiences that was, becaue of it being first hand, more accurate that the information that they had from college more than ten years ago. I came to understand that their constant challenges to my information was an atempt to restore the validity of their outdated cultural, sociological, anthropoligical and linguistic, information. It was then that I regretted having amassed so much and, for a birief time, wondered if it might be better otherwise.

I have since then come to terms with that fact.

Answer 4

Ignorance is bliss. When I realized my girlfriend intended to break up with me, I was unhappy. Five minutes before that, I was happy. Knowledge made the difference.

There are innumerable other examples in my life that mirror the above situation, but I'm paranoid and I'm not gonna get into detail here.

Answer 5

Yes. Sometimes it's hard to be carefree or live simply when you have knowledge. What I mean by that is - for example, you gain lots of knowlege about world events by watching CNN. But, after learning about all the devastation and hatred across the world, it's hard to feel "innocent". It really leaves a mark.

Answer 6

No way !
May be I can try to guess about such a situation in some people !
................It could be perhaps the un-related garbage of information that people could have gathered, mistaking it to be knowledge, and realised its worthlessness when it failed upon application, and now feel it as burdensome, being unable to park it else where, out of or away from one's own memory !

Answer 7

It very well can be. Knowledge can be a double edge sword. It can be used for great good or great evil.

For example -
Dr. Martin L. King - Great good
Adolph Hitler - Great Evil

Knowledge is what has created the "nuclear bomb" and that is another example of the good and evil of knowledge.

:o)
Jerry

Answer 8

yes because when I was going to school as a youth they didn't know how to teach me.....I felt stupid and gave up on learning....so at that point knowledge became a burden.

Answer 9

Yes. Mostly because many other people in America try to keep themselves in the dark so much (especially if they are highly religious) that they can't converse intelligently with you about much more than pop-cultural topics. It's quite disappointing.

Answer 10

Yes, when you know something that you can't tell someone else, its a burden usually.