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    Everyone loves his or her own opinion best. But what reason do we have for holding our own view of reality in any particular esteem?

    This entry was posted on Saturday, August 21st, 2004 at 2:19 PM . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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    Because it’s the only view we know. I cannot know someone else’s view of reality, only try to imagine it through my own. However, it doesn’t mean a person’s view of reality is unmaleable. Opinions are like Science, things change as new information is presented and processed. But to answer your question directly (even if it was rhetorical), the answer is simply familiarity.

    August 21st, 2004 at 8:16 PM
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    we can accept your view……except for “our opinion being the only view we ‘know’”….

    August 22nd, 2004 at 7:10 AM
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    I usually try NOT to hold my opinions in any kind of esteem unless its about something that I think is a big issue & everyone needs to know, even then I expect people to not see it like I do….
    99% of the time my words get mangled and tangled by whomever I speak to anyways.

    August 22nd, 2004 at 5:43 PM
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    the origin of this post stems from a question i originally posed to myself.

    being quite aggressive and persuasive in offering my view on reality i sometimes lose faith in those around me.

    in doing so i become that mild stinging intolerance that i am so dead set against.

    my peers [for the most part] respect me and look to me for guidance and it is quite rare when someone counsels me in the ways of life, delighted as they admire my jaw hitting the floor……upon my disbelief……lol

    August 22nd, 2004 at 9:24 PM
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    Because we cannot truly “know” another person’s point of view without having experienced it first hand and without any knowledge of the already-established POV. The only thing we can do is to process the recollections of another’s POV, process it, and adapt our own POV with the bits and pieces we choose. As long as there is a hint of our already existing POVs, the POV of another taken in will be corrupted by the prior POV. The only way to purely know another’s POV is to be that person, to have lived their life, and to know what they know. We can try to empathize with another’s POV, but can never fully understand, or “know” it. Long > Short Answer Conversion = It’ a matter of definition. I’d make a helluva philosopher if I thought there was any future in it. :P

    August 23rd, 2004 at 12:36 AM
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    Narcissism.

    August 23rd, 2004 at 12:40 AM
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    haven’t we discussed this…..lol

    masochism vs sadism…..weeeeee

    August 23rd, 2004 at 1:22 AM

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