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LanceHughes -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 4:17:27 AM)

That I probably have a half-brother. 



VaguelyCurious -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 4:37:07 AM)


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ORIGINAL: SAMHAIN09

I didn't expect him to be a animal lover.

Not just an animal lover; the SA were arguably the forerunners of the whole ecology movement - a fact that I still find weird.

Such regard for mother nature, such little regard for human life.

For me: quite how much people openly stare at each other in the street.

I only started wearing sunglasses as an adult, and I tend to watch people sideways through my fringe - force of habit. When they can't see your eyes people assume you're looking forwards, which means they think they're free to gawp at you. I couldn't figure out why people were suddenly holding eye contact with me so much, and then I realised it was the sunglasses and that people stare like that all the time.

Then I realised I do it too...



PeonForHer -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:10:54 AM)


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ORIGINAL: VaguelyCurious
the SA were arguably the forerunners of the whole ecology movement - a fact that I still find weird.


That's quite a surprise to me too, VC. I did a Ph.D on the politics of the ecology movement and here I am only finding that out here and now on CM! Well, well, well . . . .



VaguelyCurious -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:29:17 AM)


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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer


quote:

ORIGINAL: VaguelyCurious
the SA were arguably the forerunners of the whole ecology movement - a fact that I still find weird.


That's quite a surprise to me too, VC. I did a Ph.D on the politics of the ecology movement and here I am only finding that out here and now on CM! Well, well, well . . . .

So said my A-level textbook. It has now been consigned to the charidee shop so I can't back my claims up, I'm afraid. [8D][8D][8D]

But I remember that phrase pretty clearly, because I quoted the book in an essay.



Twoshoes -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:34:46 AM)

Well, Martin Heidegger was a Nazi. And a lot of ecology arguments are based on his philosophy.



Termyn8or -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:35:22 AM)

NFR - jumpthrough.

That a quarter of the wavelength of light is one of the most important measurements.

T^T



PeonForHer -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:51:42 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Twoshoes

Well, Martin Heidegger was a Nazi. And a lot of ecology arguments are based on his philosophy.


Jesus - where do people get this stuff??! A tiny group, within a tiny group that was a subsection of a tiny group, once, within the modern ecology movement, was influenced by Heidegger. Saying that the SA were the forerunners of the modern ecology movement is like saying that the Marxists were the forerunners of the modern Conservative party. (Because one of the first British people to read Kapital was a Tory, and he supported some of Marx's ideas; and because the modern Conservative party now accepts e.g. some redistribution of wealth - once considered solely a socialist idea.) Or, that Liberals (like Clegg!) are Marxists because both Marx and modern Liberals drew a lot from J J Rousseau.

It doesn't work like this in political ideology, folks. Every thinker and every movement draws at least something from everywhere else.






Kana -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 5:58:47 AM)

How to fail.

It took me ages to learn how to deal with that. I'm not saying I didn't fail up til then (Failure being part of the human experience and all) but I sure didn't have any clue how to handle it. After that, the next hardest thing was learning that:

A-Just cuz it's not my way, that doesn't mean it's not a right way to do something.
and
B-Sometimes I need to give people the room and right to be wrong, to make the errors they need to make that they may grow as people....even when I know they are wrong.






Termyn8or -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 6:16:15 AM)

Have you ever studied any martial arts An ? What is the FIRST thing you learn ?

T^T



AbsoluteOverlord -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 6:23:43 AM)

That there is no Santa Claus



LaTigresse -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 7:30:09 AM)

For me, I think it's been that my brain/thought process seems to be very different than that of most of the people I know. That most of the people I know, seem to think similarly and just do not understand, cannot comprehend, anything different. To them, different is scary. That they seriously believe that everyone WANTS to think like them.

The realization that I cannot understand wanting to think like them...



Hillwilliam -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 8:17:58 AM)

Humans are supposedly the most intelligent thing in the general cosmic vicinity but a vast majority of them refuse to think for themselves.



SAMHAIN09 -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 10:52:47 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Humans are supposedly the most intelligent thing in the general cosmic vicinity but a vast majority of them refuse to think for themselves.
I like this.



needlesandpins -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 11:33:12 AM)

fr

that about 1% of the static that we hear when tuning a radio is actually stretched light realeased at the moment of the solar big bang.

needles



Marc2b -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 11:45:40 AM)

After loosing a significant amount of weight... discovering that my pecker was a lot bigger than I thought it was!



Arpig -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 11:46:20 AM)

OK, I have been thinking about this thread ever since it started, and I figured it would be a no brainer since I have learned lots of strange things over my half-century... but none of it really surprised me that much. The two things that really did surprise me are really pretty mundane.

1) People like me, in spite of myself.
and
2) My daughter tells all of her friends they should talk to me if they want good advice.



LaTigresse -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 11:47:05 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

After loosing a significant amount of weight... discovering that my pecker was a lot bigger than I thought it was!


I wonder if it works the same way for women......[:D]



sirsholly -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 11:58:58 AM)

We all have the ability to achieve the improbable...and many of us can pull off the impossible.



Marc2b -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 12:04:16 PM)

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I wonder if it works the same way for women......


I doubt it. I think women's peckers stay the same size no matter how much weight they loose. [&:]




Zevar -> RE: What is the most surprising thing you have ever learned? (3/28/2011 12:09:19 PM)

People are not inherently good or evil, but how they think of themselves make it so, one way or the other.



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