While we are separated by different languages, we all share the same intuitive knowing unless, of course, it has been "educated" out of us by the misuse of language. The problem is that most of us have been partially alienated from our understanding, so it trails behind us Conscience.
For this reason, we are extremely sensitive to words. We tend equate language with reality, so that a mere word affect us in the same way as the thing for which it stand. For example, someone calls you a fool. (Like they do that to me often on YA-R&S). So, you react, you become upset, and you act like a fool (Even if you are not, you become one by reacting to words!)
Words, except when they are loaded with meaning in order to convey understanding, can be confusing and confounding.
One person uses words to say the right thing. Another person, with rhetorical slyness, twists the facts, but his words go down just as well. Which one do you believe ? What is truth ? Confusing ?
What say you all ?
2007-08-23 15:06:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Zimmia, Can you do that "balancing" act without Divine help - The Holy Spirit ?
Or are you being sovereignly guided without knowing it? You can be you know; and only, if there's a true sincere seeking heart for truth yearning from within!
2007-08-23 15:18:04 · update #1
Nate, don't "belittle" yourself. I can see great potential in you. Keep on prodding on you inner heart's cry, I am sure Truth is knocking at your door !
2007-08-23 15:40:22 · update #2
Yes it does Nantas! But, what's the use of it you can't use the currency in the way you are going to ultimately ?
2007-08-26 02:35:10 · update #3
i'd like to have both. right you are that everybody has that gut feel or intuition but doesn't have the intellect to use that..i think we should have both.
words, are sharper than knives.. faster that the bullet(hehe.. most likely faster than superman)..but it depends on the person recieving the words being said to him... people are not made to think alike..even if one meant well by the usage of his words it sometimes come out bad..it's so much better if you converse with the person personally because you get to see his facial reaction, his body movements to justify his words.. what's hard here in YA-R&S is that we don't get to view eachother as so we can tell if the person is sincere on what he's saying... we base all on the words typed here...
2007-08-23 15:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by anette 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I chose to take my 'intellectual' educated knowledge and then temper it with my intuitive side. That might have to do with how much time I spent in higher education (I have an undergraduate and 2 masters degrees) and the realization that if you blindly believe everything you are 'taught' in class you'll come out knowing nothing really important.
My intuitive side is also the one that reminds me that I don't know everyting and that I should stop and listen once in a while. Although I probably should do more of that for general purposes.
2007-08-23 22:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Zimmia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If reality is ultimately defined by ones own perception, then our intellectual knowledge is useless. But for that matter, what is our intuitive knowledge... our subconscience instinct? What makes knowledge pre-exsisting better than knowledge learned? While one is corrupted by society, the other is corrupted by our own conscience judgement.
If one person corrupts words to convey his own will, is it not the same thing if a person conveys his will, for what he believes is a good, but is ultimately wrong? Although the intentions were different, the end result was the same.
Then what is true knowledge?
What is important?
but wat do i no, im just junior in high school. dont pay attention to that
2007-08-23 22:20:20 · answer #3 · answered by Nate 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll take both thanks *smile*...
Education without intuition is short-sighted...a savant that can't interpret the world and make decisions about anything outside the realm of that knowledge. Intuition without education is flighty...a mystic that operates on feelings and ignores evidence that those feelings may be incorrect.
Words are just words...God knows they have the power to wound and they can also be misunderstood. The true meaning of words comes from within each of us...we analyze and interpret the words of others based on our own "world view" (a product of intuition and education). Is another person twisting the facts or is your perception of the facts twisted (and the other person is really speaking the truth)...is the other person saying the "right thing" or are you interpreting it as right based on a flaw in your own worldview?
Words are power but their power comes from us...from our interpretation and subsequent reaction to those words. Without a worldview that recognizes and accepts the value of intuition AND the value of education, a person is doomed to be deceived by unrecognized lies and misinformation (communicated through words)!
2007-08-23 22:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
google quantum psychology it addresses a similar dilemma
2007-08-23 22:11:48 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
intellectual, educated knowledge....it pays more
2007-08-23 22:12:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"what say you all", i like that =)
2007-08-23 22:17:36 · answer #7 · answered by AFI07 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋