How Smart Am I? (The Ecstacy of Psychic Liberation)

[Dillinger]

Turns out I am smarter than I had thought and yet, at the same time, considerably more dumb than I had realized.

I am smart because I am aware of the consequences of my words and my actions. I am dumb because despite that awareness I continue to make the same mistakes and to act in ways that are detrimental to my best interests. Why is this? Do any of you do the same thing?

I will be truly wise on the day that I not only understand my behavior but also act in a way that allows my understanding to change my behavior. I will be truly wise when I am no longer a creature of habit.

On that day I will finally be able to say: "I am."

 

[Svedish_Chef]

I yam what I yams

 

[Wiggles]

Yep, I do it. It's human nature. If I did all the things I knew I was supposed to do I'd be one boring chica.

How could you not be a creature of habit? We all have habits, some good and some bad. It's which ones you choose that make you who you are.

Consistency and rituals keep life stable.

 

[SINthysist]

Ahm wid chew!

Can't keep away from the damn wiskey, and pot, and Lit, and gambling, and fighting, and most of all, pontificating...

 

[SINthysist]

Wisdom...

That which once possessed, will certainly draw a Diogenes.

 

[Laurel]

I will be truly wise on the day that I not only understand my behavior but also act in a way that allows my understanding to change my behavior. I will be truly wise when I am no longer a creature of habit.

Very wise...but unfortunately much, much easier said than done.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I think it's impossible to fully understand our behavior since our environment, our daily influences change us in so many ways every day. Nothing is static. I enjoy suprising myself sometimes, and feel the same frustration when I continue to repeat behavior that is destructive. The only way to learn is through growth, and sometimes the only way to grow is to change. Change leads us to re-evaluate our choices and behavior.

None of us will ever be truly wise.

 

[Jellybeangirl]

We're all faced with choices in life, we all know the choices that we probably SHOULD make...but the right choice isn't always the easiest or in our best interests at the time.

Life is short! Be damned with having to worry about the correct decisions! Let's have FUN!

Besides, who defines the standards for society to follow? And do we care what they think?

 

[freescorfr]

Turns out I am smarter than I had thought and yet, at the same time, considerably more dumb than I had realized.

I am smart because I am aware of the consequences of my words and my actions. I am dumb because despite that awareness I continue to make the same mistakes and to act in ways that are detrimental to my best interests. Why is this? Do any of you do the same thing?

I will be truly wise on the day that I not only understand my behavior but also act in a way that allows my understanding to change my behavior. I will be truly wise when I am no longer a creature of habit.

On that day I will finally be able to say: "I am."

I once used to think like that Dillinger. I now realise that, at an early age, I learned that it was, at the moment, less painful to put uncomfortable feelings into my head rather than to listen to what they were telling me - to intellectualise, rationalise and analyse what I was living, feeling, inhabiting, what was living in me.

Undertanding isn't always the key - at least not rational undertanding. I'm talking about this left side of the brain, right side of the brain research.
Western philosophy deified the intellect, and it's a bit limited in my opinion.
"Coito, ergo sum"

 

[Dillinger]

You never saw my "Cogito ergo cogito sum" thread? *soft smile* (I think therefore I think I am.)

Perhaps its not a matter of understanding but rather a matter of just accepting?

Thanks everyone. I'm just... still... well - whatever.

You know?

I'll let my first post rest on its own and move on.

 

[Dillinger]

Ah... here it is!!!
http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68743&highlight=cogito