[coberst]

Dare to be abnormal

"When a story enchants us, we lose the sense of where we are; we are drawn into the story so thoroughly that we forget it is a story being told. This is, in Aristotle's phrase, "the suspension of disbelief."==Nigel Spivey, “How Art Made the World”

To understand is to grasp meaning; it is a suspension of disbelief. Understanding is a confluence of emotion and reason wherein I create that which is meaningful to me.

Know is see. Understand is grasp. These are rather common metaphors. Such metaphors help us comprehend.

Empathy is a technique for understanding. We can try to understand another person by creating a means whereby we can ‘walk a mile in her shoes’. We can create analogies of what the other person experiences as a means for us to ‘put on their shoes’.

An artist may paint in the manner of Picasso, or perhaps in the manner of a Rembrandt, or perhaps in the manner of a Monet. These different forms of painting represent different ways of seeing. They represent a personal understanding which provides us with a prism for seeing.

Mathematics is a way of seeing. Mathematics is the science of pattern. Imagine a very elaborate Persian rug. Imagine that you have only a small fragment of that rug. Mathematics offers a means whereby you might be able to construct the rest of that rug to look exactly like the original. Math can perhaps create a formula for the pattern in the rug such that you can, by following that math formula, exactly duplicate the pattern from which that rug was created.

Understanding is a stage of comprehension whereby a person can interject them self into the pattern through imagination. ‘Understanding is math’ because it helps the individual to ‘walk in the shoes’ of some other entity.

Understanding might correctly, in my opinion, be considered to be a personal paradigm. Knowledge is about truth but understanding is about meaning. Understanding is a means for placing the individual within the picture including the entity about which the individual wishes to become very familiar.

Understanding is a creative process that extends knowing. Understanding may or may not enhance the truth quality of comprehension. Picasso and Monet may paint the same object but have they captured the truth of that object?

Is truth anything beyond what humans have normalized (standardized)?

Does understanding aid or deter normalization?

Are you normal? Would you rather be normal than right?

Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[vision-master]

To see what other miss........... Beyound words, that's the treat.

Once I had a little game
I liked to crawl back in my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world, forget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple.

This little game is fun to do.
Just close your eyes, i'm going too.
And I'm right here, no way to loose.
Release control, we're breaking through

[jasonraymondson]

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Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coberst', '
')Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[Kaj]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coberst', '
')
Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coberst', '
')
Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', '
')In the ancient courts the fool was the only one who could speak the truth to the kings and get away with it.

[vision-master]

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')
Dare to be abnormal, but not foolish!

[Kaj]

Group dynamics are so fascinating. You ever notice how some people, often the more talented ones, act a bit idiotically as a kind of psudo-scapegoat for those around them, just to make the others in the group comfortable?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')I have been banned three times already, and this time around they have allowed me to stay. (probably because monte is no longer a mod)

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')It also provide me a little bit of freedom here as well. As the village idiot it helps protect me from getting banned again.

I have been banned three times already, and this time around they have allowed me to stay. (probably because monte is no longer a mod)

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', 'G')roup dynamics are so fascinating. You ever notice how some people, often the more talented ones, act a bit idiotically as a kind of psudo-scapegoat for those around them, just to make the others in the group comfortable?

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', 'G')roup dynamics are so fascinating. You ever notice how some people, often the more talented ones, act a bit idiotically as a kind of psudo-scapegoat for those around them, just to make the others in the group comfortable?

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('golem', 'W')hat a stupid thread to start.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', 'G')roup dynamics are so fascinating. You ever notice how some people, often the more talented ones, act a bit idiotically as a kind of pseudo-scapegoat for those around them, just to make the others in the group comfortable?

[vision-master]

This is a good forum for a kid to hang around. I remember, as a lad, I'd hang out in coffee shops and listen to the ol folks chatter.

Another thing, don't let those peeps with a fancy education and sliver tongues talk down at ya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztv8lsgpmmI

Best treatment for depression. NOTE: must be AT Max volume.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', ' ')
I know that a vast majority of us are introverts and that in the real world we would have a hard time articulating the thoughts and feelings that we share here. Regardless of how you all feel about me or how I may feel about each of you, please understand that I believe that each one of you in some way or another has contributed something that has made this site as great as what it is. even Raphael

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', ' ')
I know that a vast majority of us are introverts and that in the real world we would have a hard time articulating the thoughts and feelings that we share here. Regardless of how you all feel about me or how I may feel about each of you, please understand that I believe that each one of you in some way or another has contributed something that has made this site as great as what it is. even Raphael

[MrBean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')I know that a vast majority of us are introverts and that in the real world we would have a hard time articulating the thoughts and feelings that we share here. Regardless of how you all feel about me or how I may feel about each of you, please understand that I believe that each one of you in some way or another has contributed something that has made this site as great as what it is. even Raphael

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '
')Not me, I'm an extrovert.