What do you KNOW?

Question

And how is it you came to know it?

Answer 1

Well, we have things that we are brought up with. And we learn that they are the truth. Then as time goes on someone or something challenges those beliefs.

It was explained to me (my pastor was a Philosophies of Education Professor out of Stanford University) as putting on a pair of glasses. And if you keep running into walls and bumping into things, you start to question those glasses as being correct, and perhaps the optometrist's ability to prescribe the right ones for you.

Knowledge is like that. It can be challenged at any time. Some people avoid their beliefs being challenged. While others find that what they thought they knew was wrong, and they chose to ignore the incident of learning what they thought was true, wasn't true at all.

It's like a dark room in the mind. Once a person sees dust in the corner they can choose to turn out the light. Those that decide to turn out the light have another thing to struggle with, they are always influenced by their decision to turn out the light. They know that there is still dust in the corner, they just decided to not do anything about it.

So rather than be like those who turn out the light, I try to expose myself to new ideas and theories. I am on the internet every single day. I like to be challenged. I WANT to know if something that I think is true is actually wrong. I want to know because if I am exposed to the real truth, I want to adopt it. That's how I am.

And that's something that I know.

Answer 2

Wikipedia.

Answer 3

I know that there's a whole lot I don't know. I came to know that by reading the words of people who know more than I know. Know what I mean?

Answer 4

I know what I am, I was concerned with two questions. Why are things the way they are and who am I? I began meditation {being still} a few months before I found out, the big answer came almost of itself through direct experience.

Answer 5

I know not much in the scheme of things.
But what I do know was delivered to me by my rather limited senses and judged for accuracy by my rather limited brain before it was either accepted or rejected into my bank of knowledge. As new information comes along, there's always the chance that formerly trusted knowledge has to be cast away.

Answer 6

1.) I know it's time to log off YA! R&S.
2.) I'm reading an artilcle on Karl Rove, and it's more interesting... how sad is that!

Answer 7

I know lots of things, from growing up, school, TAFE, employment, marriage, church, reading, and lots of internet sources. What is it that I know that you want to know?

Answer 8

I don't know if we really KNOW anything. I mean, I suppose everything that I think I know could be wrong.

Answer 9

I learned everything i know from Scrubs (TV show on NBC)

Answer 10

all my knowledge is just accumulated memory from the books and the past experiences