Many people only give criticizing answers on YA, especially on R&S. Criticizing is good, but there is a difference between having a critical mind and having a criticizing mind.
We can go nowhere without having opposite opinions, but opinions that focus on side issues or that ar just a bit too tangential to the core of the Q don´t help.
I have found that most criticizing minds don´t ask Qs, they just answer and usually sail under Groucho´s "whatever it is I´m against it" flag.
Others identify the core and erode the pillars with jeers, dubious facts, sacred verses or outrage.
There are fanatics that report anything they judge dangerous, not necessarily offensive.
All in all, it´s a true representation of the state of society, with bullies, do-gooders, hypocrites, intellectuals, loonies, self righteous, scholars and ignorants...
I weep at the state of the world. YA demonstrates that wisdom has fled our world and I wonder if I´ll see it back in my lifetime.
Your thoughts whoever you are?
2007-09-01 06:00:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A Tesseract is , by the way, a cube shown in 4 dimensions where the 4th dimension is represented by time.
2007-09-01 06:13:42 · update #1
It is also called an Hypercube.
2007-09-01 06:14:04 · update #2
I don't think the majority deliberately try to take the questioner down. People who answer honestly are answering from their understanding. Where ever that understanding may come from or what ever that understanding is. If the answer may seem to be off center of the question, it is not intentional. It is from that persons perception. This is how I learn so much on y/a. The different perspectives when taken together tell a mind opening story. I like it myself.
What you see happening to people today is really not that much different than what happened in the past. We just have so many people on the planet and so many people out of sync that everything has become blatantly obvious and in our faces. This is modern society in all its glory. I don't like what we have become. Common sense is attacked as someone just trying to be different because they have reasoning skills. You can't convince people otherwise. That's when we just make our lives the best they can be for us on individual levels. You can't treat just the symptoms of our society's ills. It's like putting a band-aid on cancer and hoping it goes away. To treat an illness you have to reach the cause of that illness. When you try to find the illness that has plagued our society you find yourself on an endless circle. And, here we are at the beginning of our discussion once again.
Our fellow yahooers need to learn to disagree without using a flag to do so. These are opinions not hits or power trips. It's fun to push the limit of the rules on here, but it is so not cool for it to cost another yahooer.
2007-09-01 11:22:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I don't despair as much tough, bc I don't think that R&S is a representative cross section of our species, or at least I hope not. Also, at any given physical location, you are going to have a higher or lower number of people who are critical thinkers, as opposed to just being critical people.
Do you think that the higher a person's educational level, the greater are the chances that the person is able to think outside their own box and actually think? I do. But that's just a generalization too.
At any rate, you make some very good points, some of which will actually have an impact on some of the answerers here.
bb,
LM
2007-09-01 13:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with most you've said but I am one of those who answer much more than I ask but merely because I only ask when I have something I wish an opinion on from anyone of any belief or non-belief. I don't use the report button, I don't thumbs down but merely let everyone have their say. The world is big enough to have more than one opinion on things.
2007-09-01 13:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is still wisdom in the world.
Occasionally the 'focus' which we possess, as questioner, does not allow an answerer to give a genuinly enlightening response without falling into the "side-issue" category.
"open-mindedness" is helpful in such situations. One of my fave cliches about that is "wisdom is where you *find* it, not where you *want* it."
Universe inna microcosm.
thoughtful question
(a minor hair-split, but as R-4 cube, the "fourth dimension" is not necessarily 'time')
2007-09-01 18:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often the side issues are exactly what leads to a theories downfall. Many theories can handle the core but not the margins, that is where Newtons theories fell down for example.
2007-09-01 13:05:49 · answer #5 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try not to judge or jeer unless the question is offensive, non-sensical or derogatory in some way. Otherwise, I try to inject what little wisdom I have into the answer.
2007-09-01 13:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good post! I've always held that if you don't happen to agree with another's views then keep it to yourself. Arguing and bitterness only cause division and create a hostile environment.
2007-09-01 13:13:22 · answer #7 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good post. Thank you. I really liked the Groucho Marx quote, it was very appropriate for this post.
2007-09-01 13:06:49 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea! I agree... let's act as mature people, ask legitimate questions, provide well thought out answers, and move on.
2007-09-01 13:13:00 · answer #9 · answered by Happy Days! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that anyone who cannot provide a lucid definition and description of what a tesseract is should be banished.
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2007-09-01 13:08:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋