Why are there deep thinkers? Why are thay like that? Act that way?

Question

You know these are musings. Id just like to know what y'all think.

Answer 1

Everyone can sense the immediate. What presses in on your senses all the time. To an extent it's obvious if rain is currently falling on your house, and that you will get wet if you go out and stand in it. Most people dwell only right there in the now and here, wherever now and here happens to be.

Some people, however, start to think around the edges of the now and here. They wonder how the rain got up in the clouds in the first place, where that cloud was before here, and whether maybe it's better to get yourself wet even though it's more comfortable to be dry. It's easy for the now-thinkers to scorn the edge-thinkers: "Who CARES where the cloud used to be? It's raining NOW!" And to be fair, a lot of the time they're right.

But as should be fairly clear from the above example, some edge-thinking pans out into very useful ideas. If you know where and how clouds travel, you can't be caught without an umbrella when you need one. And as you can imagine, those perceptive enough to do this kind of thinking pursue it sometimes for as many reasons as any kind of power is pursued: some lust for the power itself, some desire just to have questions answered, and some guys just don't like carrying around umbrellas all the time.

Of course, even the edge has an edge. And like the near edge, the far edge can provide comparatively powerful insight with comparatively less likely results. If you get far enough 'outside the box', you may be able to grasp the very keys that run the universe as whole... but more likely even if you find something, when you try and tell someone they'll get that look that people get when someone suddenly begins talking in gibberish (I know that look all too well!).

Deep thinking is like diving for pearls. Not everyone can do it, and many of those who can choose not to. Maybe if you do it, you'll come back from a dive with brain damage from holding your breath too long. Or maybe you'll get that one big strike. Like most professions, some of those who do it wouldn't dream of doing anything else!

Answer 2

Humans have different things that make them happy. Some need emotion and poetry, some need science and order, some need to sit and think, some need to fight, etc...

Answer 3

Not everyone can be shallow and self absorbed.