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Rejoice! Great people of LiveJournal and the alike, As I gulp down this snail and sip this fine french champayne I find myself turning into a pretentious conceited self-indulgent self-religious french woman. It was in the fortune that madam esmerelda AKA the homeless lady who digs through my trash every wednesday morning, I tried to avoid it but I
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I used to think I had a lot of clarity and I was a smart dude. Now... not so much. I started questioning stuff, relating to finance, morals, history, etc. It's real hard to know what is true, but it's no so hard to figure out that something isn't.
Basically everything I learned in school, that wasn't math or spelling, is crap. It's disprovable. It's not the truth and it doesn't work. I had to replace those things, when possible, with stuff that does work. For stuff that I can't, I just let it go, and accept that I don't know. It is better to do that, then faithfully believe in some fact. It gives you more flexibility.
It's made me a lot more successful. I do better in almost every area of life now. Except, it isolates me now, because I hate nothing more than a sitting through conversation with the others, as they discuss something within the framework of bullshit. If you give them a new fact, they try to built it into that framework, even when it contradicts something else in there.
But I do love the moment when I can find something fundamental pillar they've built their view of the world on, and show them it's just not true. A whole section collapses in their brains, and now their mind is open, if only for a while. You have to force it upon them, but sometimes you do it enough and they start to like it, and will continue on learning how much they don't know.
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Ha ha ha, it's called arguing successfully. I like fabricating irony and contradictions in other peoples arguments to fit my own agenda :cool:
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