That's right. How do you know she loved Chachi? Because the words say so. Set aside for the moment the fact that the people I speak of in the title are a fiction. They serve the point I make well. Let us start with a few questions - Do you even know Joni? Have you ever met her? spoken to her? at length? About anything serious? Love and relationships?
I thought not. You couldn't have because you have only watched what she said and did on TV - You have no real knowledge of the kind of person she was/is or what may drive or motivate her to act in one way - and not another.
Deep Breath now.
How are politicians different?
Have you ever met a politician?
Surely have seen one on TV.
You may have met a politician once - perhaps met several in your life thus far. Did you have a meaningful conversation? I use the word "meaningful" in my question holding what I call meaningful in mind. i.e.: Did you truly speak? Was it more than "hello-how are you - thank you"? Were you able to talk for a time? To be allowed to 'ask a question' is not the same as conversation. To talk or converse is to let thoughts in one's mind come out, be shared and then responded to with thoughts prompted by the initiate - it is reciprocal - there is no format - it is not "question and answer". Listening to a speech and then saying "great speech!" is not "meeting" someone. Asking a question and then having the one questioned take a deep breath and soapbox is not "meeting" someone, and it is not conversation.
So, I ask again have you ever met a politician? do you know one personally? Can you "vouch"? Dot dot dot...
Take it a step further. How do you know what you know? Through direct perception and experience. Well, let us be honest - not all the time. What do you "know" about the world that you didn't hear second or third hand through someone else? What do you believe about the world that you didn't learn in school from a teacher or textbook? (please question now who decided what was included in/excluded from those textbooks) If you watch television or read printed media you are no better off. Why are you you?
Is it because you believe in the tried methods of comfortable institutions who are not often questioned for accuracy or for any other reason? Ha. Separate in your mind the things you know because you "know" them and the things you know because you heard/saw it on TV. Perception/Experience Vs. Propaganda. Wow. One list big - one list small.
Again the question - How do you know what you know? Whether one source or another is "believed" or not is irrelevant. Is not your account of history - the world - how life is - pieced together from what you consider to be voices of trust - reliable - or perhaps those who's opinion you find comfort in. If you cannot account for how you know what you know now - at this moment or beyond that in total - therein lies a problem.
Your decision making process in this and any moment is based on reference to a body of knowledge existing in your mind created over your lifetime - What I beg you to examine is:
How did that knowledge get there.
This was no accident - and no -though you would like to belive it - you weren't born with it.
The Donkey
I thought not. You couldn't have because you have only watched what she said and did on TV - You have no real knowledge of the kind of person she was/is or what may drive or motivate her to act in one way - and not another.
Deep Breath now.
How are politicians different?
Have you ever met a politician?
Surely have seen one on TV.
You may have met a politician once - perhaps met several in your life thus far. Did you have a meaningful conversation? I use the word "meaningful" in my question holding what I call meaningful in mind. i.e.: Did you truly speak? Was it more than "hello-how are you - thank you"? Were you able to talk for a time? To be allowed to 'ask a question' is not the same as conversation. To talk or converse is to let thoughts in one's mind come out, be shared and then responded to with thoughts prompted by the initiate - it is reciprocal - there is no format - it is not "question and answer". Listening to a speech and then saying "great speech!" is not "meeting" someone. Asking a question and then having the one questioned take a deep breath and soapbox is not "meeting" someone, and it is not conversation.
So, I ask again have you ever met a politician? do you know one personally? Can you "vouch"? Dot dot dot...
Take it a step further. How do you know what you know? Through direct perception and experience. Well, let us be honest - not all the time. What do you "know" about the world that you didn't hear second or third hand through someone else? What do you believe about the world that you didn't learn in school from a teacher or textbook? (please question now who decided what was included in/excluded from those textbooks) If you watch television or read printed media you are no better off. Why are you you?
Is it because you believe in the tried methods of comfortable institutions who are not often questioned for accuracy or for any other reason? Ha. Separate in your mind the things you know because you "know" them and the things you know because you heard/saw it on TV. Perception/Experience Vs. Propaganda. Wow. One list big - one list small.
Again the question - How do you know what you know? Whether one source or another is "believed" or not is irrelevant. Is not your account of history - the world - how life is - pieced together from what you consider to be voices of trust - reliable - or perhaps those who's opinion you find comfort in. If you cannot account for how you know what you know now - at this moment or beyond that in total - therein lies a problem.
Your decision making process in this and any moment is based on reference to a body of knowledge existing in your mind created over your lifetime - What I beg you to examine is:
How did that knowledge get there.
This was no accident - and no -though you would like to belive it - you weren't born with it.
The Donkey
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