Too true, I'm afraid, and sometimes the answers aren't what you want.
sometimes answers are only a small part of the story. Things are more complex than definition would lead us to believe. Finality is always an illusion.
One may search oneself thoroughly and be ill-possessed of the necessary facets to recognize the potential for good or usefulness in what seem at the time to be character flaws.
One might say "I despise a certain aspect of myself, and therefore am going to attempt to eradicate it from my being." That one may not know the full potential latent in that aspect. That aspect, misdirected or evil or timid or lethargic as it may have seemed, may have been used to cure cancer or negotiate an international end to hunger or even just provide for one's family, but because one may have thought of this aspect as being strictly unusable at the time, that one now acts against it, or neglects its potential.
The thing about the human mind is that it loves to limit itself. We love to say "this is impossible because..." or "this statistic is fact, and applies to every person and every case..." or "this procedure will fail inevitably."
We are so much more than our facts and our collective knowledge or wisdom.
Every situation can have a positive outcome. No amount of endless research can deny this possibility.
As one has faith, so will his powers and blessings be. This is the riddle, not the answer.
-B
Well said.
Hi Justin! Probably that's not a big problem, since we are never satisfied with the answers we get! I'ts funny you painted the Escher work... With Archicad I started to build those walls and stairs and so I could see it from another angle... (I come trough NaomiWoman) Have a nice week! Isabel
Sometimes the problem with answers is that they only publish the extremes and the statistics. The reality is seldom closely related to either; much more mundane, with lots of small human pleasures. I take so much information with a grain of salt now, I could buy the salt mine. Salt and vinegar; vinegar for the people who think they know everything!
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and a LARGE amen to that.
Absolutely.
Too true, I'm afraid, and sometimes the answers aren't what you want.
sometimes answers are only a small part of the story. Things are more complex than definition would lead us to believe. Finality is always an illusion.
One may search oneself thoroughly and be ill-possessed of the necessary facets to recognize the potential for good or usefulness in what seem at the time to be character flaws.
One might say "I despise a certain aspect of myself, and therefore am going to attempt to eradicate it from my being." That one may not know the full potential latent in that aspect. That aspect, misdirected or evil or timid or lethargic as it may have seemed, may have been used to cure cancer or negotiate an international end to hunger or even just provide for one's family, but because one may have thought of this aspect as being strictly unusable at the time, that one now acts against it, or neglects its potential.
The thing about the human mind is that it loves to limit itself. We love to say "this is impossible because..." or "this statistic is fact, and applies to every person and every case..." or "this procedure will fail inevitably."
We are so much more than our facts and our collective knowledge or wisdom.
Every situation can have a positive outcome. No amount of endless research can deny this possibility.
As one has faith, so will his powers and blessings be.
This is the riddle, not the answer.
-B
Well said.
Hi Justin!
Probably that's not a big problem, since we are never satisfied with the answers we get!
I'ts funny you painted the Escher work... With Archicad I started to build those walls and stairs and so I could see it from another angle...
(I come trough NaomiWoman)
Have a nice week!
Isabel
Sometimes the problem with answers is that they only publish the extremes and the statistics. The reality is seldom closely related to either; much more mundane, with lots of small human pleasures. I take so much information with a grain of salt now, I could buy the salt mine. Salt and vinegar; vinegar for the people who think they know everything!
Ouch. Ain't it the truth?
Hi Justin!
Daniel Payne here - where ya to nowadays?
danielopayne@gmail.com
Damn Skippy
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