I will be taking this thought -> "exchange that fear of, “I’m so weird for having such a weird thought?” and let yourself think about it, work through it, maybe even feel strange to yourself for a bit. Maybe you’re the first one having that thought, or the first one articulating it in a way that uniquely works for your understanding." and shout it from the rooftops, sing it to my friends, and cradle myself with it for the rest of my life.
I am learning that feeling strangeness in yourself, allowing your thoughts to come as they are, and having certain thoughts that can be understood by me, but maybe not others... is okay. all of that isn't good or bad. It just is.
cat - thanks so much for the thoughtful comment. "cradle myself with it" killed me in the best way possible. appreciate you reading and interacting more than i can express!
I love learning through conversation and it’s always irritated me when people refuse to think or discuss beyond what has been presented to us by “authority intellect figures”. Worst of all is when that “authority” is some random form of media (don’t get me started on the time I tried to explain to someone how the vaccine does not have 5G to control us and they disagreed, despite not knowing how 5G even works, just because they saw it in some conspiracy video).
It’s interesting to now know that we all have these sort of mental blocks and that maybe not all people are lazy thinkers but have rather been conditioned to think up to a certain point and then fall back on “the known” rather than even consider discussing “the unknown”.
Do you think that when someone refuses to believe new information or a new perspective from someone else, it’s because the don’t view this person as a credible source and so they’d rather stick to already known info and not budge? (Not in all cases ofc, sometimes your new info/perspectives can straight up be wrong or just not what they believe). Also could one technically argue that the education system (which promotes relying on intellectual authority when speaking about literally anything) promotes this kind of dependent thinking and thus, are promoting less overall (independent) thinking?
I think I’m going to need a coffee too after all this typing :) hope you have a good week.
A premise: English is not my first language so please excuse my grammar mistakes (I'm Italian). I've found this submission very interesting. It's so true that we rely so much on others' thoughts. But I think sometimes it's school's fault (or at least in Italy)
In Italy, professors don't encourage kids to articulate their opinion. We are very oppressed as students. Professors don't ask our opinion about a text or passage of the Divina Commedia by Dante for example. In Italy, we don't have debate groups: we don't have the opportunity to share our thoughts even on politics or everyday problems. They just present us the experts or journalists' opinions.
Indeed we "are afraid" of our thoughts or opinions.
I will be taking this thought -> "exchange that fear of, “I’m so weird for having such a weird thought?” and let yourself think about it, work through it, maybe even feel strange to yourself for a bit. Maybe you’re the first one having that thought, or the first one articulating it in a way that uniquely works for your understanding." and shout it from the rooftops, sing it to my friends, and cradle myself with it for the rest of my life.
I am learning that feeling strangeness in yourself, allowing your thoughts to come as they are, and having certain thoughts that can be understood by me, but maybe not others... is okay. all of that isn't good or bad. It just is.
thanks for (and i love) the words <3
cat - thanks so much for the thoughtful comment. "cradle myself with it" killed me in the best way possible. appreciate you reading and interacting more than i can express!
Sup T
I love learning through conversation and it’s always irritated me when people refuse to think or discuss beyond what has been presented to us by “authority intellect figures”. Worst of all is when that “authority” is some random form of media (don’t get me started on the time I tried to explain to someone how the vaccine does not have 5G to control us and they disagreed, despite not knowing how 5G even works, just because they saw it in some conspiracy video).
It’s interesting to now know that we all have these sort of mental blocks and that maybe not all people are lazy thinkers but have rather been conditioned to think up to a certain point and then fall back on “the known” rather than even consider discussing “the unknown”.
Do you think that when someone refuses to believe new information or a new perspective from someone else, it’s because the don’t view this person as a credible source and so they’d rather stick to already known info and not budge? (Not in all cases ofc, sometimes your new info/perspectives can straight up be wrong or just not what they believe). Also could one technically argue that the education system (which promotes relying on intellectual authority when speaking about literally anything) promotes this kind of dependent thinking and thus, are promoting less overall (independent) thinking?
I think I’m going to need a coffee too after all this typing :) hope you have a good week.
A premise: English is not my first language so please excuse my grammar mistakes (I'm Italian). I've found this submission very interesting. It's so true that we rely so much on others' thoughts. But I think sometimes it's school's fault (or at least in Italy)
In Italy, professors don't encourage kids to articulate their opinion. We are very oppressed as students. Professors don't ask our opinion about a text or passage of the Divina Commedia by Dante for example. In Italy, we don't have debate groups: we don't have the opportunity to share our thoughts even on politics or everyday problems. They just present us the experts or journalists' opinions.
Indeed we "are afraid" of our thoughts or opinions.