There's nothing wrong with being wrong

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Some things allow you the luxury of errors but many dont. If it matters you better be right the first time. There is no room for AT LEAST I TRIED when right is your only option.

 

[hottchic]

Some things allow you the luxury of errors but many dont. If it matters you better be right the first time. There is no room for AT LEAST I TRIED when right is your only option.

Hmmmm.............. So what do you do if you are wrong in a situation where there is no room for error?

Do you insist that you are right even when you know you are not?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hmmmm.............. So what do you do if you are wrong in a situation where there is no room for error?

Do you insist that you are right even when you know you are not?

That's a very common reaction, yeah. Witness George Bush piling on the military in Iraq. Or all those fundamentalist preachers inventing a new date for the end of the world. Or the engineers who built the Tay Rail Bridge, famed as the subject of The Worst Poem (and quite brilliant satire) Ever Written.

 

[The_Fool]

The good thing about being wrong is that I get to swear lots. Oh. Wait. That happens when Bang my knuckles working on the car, jeep or truck. And that hurts. Is my logic phallic that I combine the two? Although wrenches are somewhat phallic is shape, I think I will refrain from holding any other than my own phallus.


Okay, I hate being wrong. I need to do better at it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hmmmm.............. So what do you do if you are wrong in a situation where there is no room for error?

Do you insist that you are right even when you know you are not?

No. Thats not the point I'm making. I'm saying there are events where error isnt an option, and you cant pretend an error is success.

So pretend someone important calls you and has a gun pointed at their head. Or they let you know they just ate a bottle of pills and wont disclose where they are. Who you gonna call, ROB GRAHAM?

 

[estragon]

Certainly not you.

 

[hottchic]

No. Thats not the point I'm making. I'm saying there are events where error isnt an option, and you cant pretend an error is success.

So pretend someone important calls you and has a gun pointed at their head. Or they let you know they just ate a bottle of pills and wont disclose where they are. Who you gonna call, ROB GRAHAM?

I never tried to make out that making an error is a success, I don't think the video did either. But I don't think is helps me to beat myself up about our errors either, because beating myself up just makes me less inclined to be honest with myself.

I believe acknowledging an error and learning from it is a success.

 

[TE999]

You're wrong.

That's your problem.




[Is there an echo in here?]

 

[Stella_Omega]

jbj has decided poking at Stella is no fun anymore so he's chosen another target.

*yawn*

 

[SweetMaj]

No. Thats not the point I'm making. I'm saying there are events where error isnt an option, and you cant pretend an error is success.

So pretend someone important calls you and has a gun pointed at their head. Or they let you know they just ate a bottle of pills and wont disclose where they are. Who you gonna call, ROB GRAHAM?

Making errors, can certainly be a success.

Not when you are making them.

But when I look back, and think of all the errors I have made in my life, my errors
become a success, because I have learnt a lot from them.

As for your question about the gun and the pills, that's for you to answer.
And if you think hardly enough, I'm sure you'll find a solution.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

jbj has decided poking at Stella is no fun anymore so he's chosen another target.

*yawn*

Did I ever tell you youre my hero?
Youre everything I wanted to be.
And I can fly high like an eagle
Cuz you are the wind beneath my wingsssssss.

 

[TE999]

I'll tell you what, let's all pull up our socks (or stockings), square our shoulders, sing 'My Way' at the top of our lungs and get on with the business of living and making the most of each day.

Philosophy is mental masturbation fit only for the halls of academe' and curbside cafe's.

 

[xssve]

Wrong again!

 

[JackLuis]

Infallibility is a heavy burden.

Being wrong about a pie choice is one thing, Being wrong about which hole to put you dick in, can be a, a ten year stretch in Sing Sing, a new revelation in a relationship, or, lead to a serious medical crisis.

Everyone is wrong about somethings, sometimes. Survival is about being mostly right, most times.

Never bet the farm, is good advice.

 

[3113]

Philosophy is mental masturbation fit only for the halls of academe' and curbside cafe's.

Philosophy? You think this is philosophy? Kierkegaard is philosophy. Socrates is philosophy. Nietzsche and Kant are philosophy.

This is just friendly advice. Students of philosophy would find this barely enough to get them through their first sip of espresso.

 

[rgraham666]

At least mental masturbation is more likely to produce something useful and good than the physical kind.

As my favorite author points out, the biggest problem with philosophy these days is that it's just another field of expertise, deliberately isolated from the world by a professional dialect and so prevented from contributing very much. It's wandered far from the old curmudgeon who spent his days wandering around Athens annoying people with questions they didn't want to consider.

Until they got sick of it and murdered him for it.

 

[rgraham666]

jbj has decided poking at Stella is no fun anymore so he's chosen another target.

*yawn*

Jimmy Bob? I demand you poke Stella at once! Why should I have all the fun?