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CuriousLord -> RE: Topic: Chattanooga infant dies after being left in sweltering vehicle (5/2/2007 9:30:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Zensee
Might I suggest that the above statement presumes your perspective actually IS more accurate. If that is true, and it needs to be communicated, then it is the duty of the communicator to transmit the message, not the listener to receive it. It might also be untrue and only appear true because you have not encountered someone who can or is willing to engage you in rebuttal or because you are resistant. Being unopposed does not automatically make one right.
Yeah, like in the previous conversation, I've been.. trying to communicate.
I would rebuke the opening statement in saying that it's ironically presumptious. ;) (This is, it's pressuming that I'm pressuming as opposed to having evidence. Though I'll give it that you left it sort of open-ended, so it's not entirely based on this presumption. :P)
As the things I feel with regards to this subject are relatively unique, I tend to use a lot of analogies.
I can't tell you how many people have asked me, "Why don't you just speak normally and say it like a normal, intelligent person does?" How do you explain to them that a normal, intelligent person is a blithering idiot? Not to say I'm much better- one of the insights I'm more keely aware of is just how utterly stupid humans beings (to include both myself and those who may be more intelligent than I am) are.
But, anyhow, the analogy I like to use is about a "mentally retarded" person (a phrase I don't like since it's degrading to some for a condition I consider to be nearly universal). If you consider something you consider to be complicated- think of how you might explain it to a mentally retarded individual. You might come up with some simplier anaologies or get some of the basic things together, but they're never, no matter how long you bust your head at it, going to get the full scope of things. (I've been teaching at the colleges I've attended. I've known some mentally retarded people and I've watched others interact with them. They just don't get this sometimes.)
It's really off topic for the thread, though I appreciate someone saying something on the issue that isn't an ego-saving flame about how they're right, regardless of any points or facts (this honestly isn't aimed at anyone in particular- I just run into it a lot, as I think many do). Anyhow, I don't believe you can teach someone who's not as mentally inclined the same things that are demanding on a more mentalled inclined individual.
So, all I know really to do is to act on them, state my reasons as best as I can when needed, and to do it.
For reasons I do not fully understand, many tend to follow me. When I finally finish my rounds at college, I'm going to have a host of degrees and achomplishments to show off, and, hopefully, some major invention, so I'll have a good income. My point here being that I'm going to have a disproportionate amount of influence. Ensuring that this portion is as great as possible and that I use it as wisely as available stands as my answer to the "what to do with important things you can't communicate".
As a side note, this feeling of mine causes me to be awfully sympathetic to many powerful individuals who do things in the world, seemingly stupid to others, offering little to no justifcation. I tend to think out their actions and find deeper reasonings. Some of them are idiots. I've found some true geniuses, though, doing things with the world most people would never agree to. It's not a conspiracy, though.. just different individuals doing the best they can with the tools they're given in this environment.
I'm going to stop here. I always think too much.. too much to rant about, and I'm trying, desperately, to resist the urge to elaborate into things further than would be practical for the sake of posting on this board. =/
Well, I'm sure I look like an egotistical ass now. Ah wells. At least I'm finally being a bit more honest.
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