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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive Re: Since you are only 15, I'm not too worried.Posted by Sambersil on September 08, 2000 at 03:12:54: In Reply to: Since you are only 15, I'm not too worried. posted by WingPrayer on September 07, 2000 at 19:35:38: Jesus! Do the words "pompous buffoon" or "elitist snob" mean anything to you? I hardly expected a personal flame! And "higher thinking"? I've already GOT the highest thinking there is - the realization that because no-one knows what the truth value of anything is, thought for its own sake is fallacy, and philosophy is only good for entertainment. That knowledge overrules all knowledge, including itself. It means seeking truth is damn stupid, because truth does not exist. I like to think about stuff, so I will continue to and have been continuing to, but I know enough not to take truth too seriously. I do not like very much to read what other people think about stuff, so I won't. I have learned to believe what I want to believe, and I believe that's a very powerful insight. Do you always judge people this way, by their age or other irrelevant factors like that? (Maybe race? Maybe gender? Maybe religion?) I noticed that even before I unwittingly insulted your life by saying that what you like to do is boring and annoying, you said "pretty good for 15", and after I insulted you, your title included the phrase "only 15". Do you realize that science tells us that powers of reasoning and problem solving peak in the early teens? I guess I shouldn't credit you with that knowledge- you're only an adult. (Do not take that comment seriously, it was not an insult to adults in general, just to you) Despite my now angry feelings toward you, I would still enjoy discussion. Or would that be below you? Please, for the sake of space, include in your response to this your logical argument so that we don't have to waste a three whole posts with personal insults. Insult me, fine, but include your argument as well. : "I haven't read any. I make this stuff up myself, and I think reading whole books of other people's ideas is 1. boring and 2. annoying. A brief dose of someone else's thinking is fine, if its just a page or 2 long, but a whole book? No way!" : Your process is a very quick one to becoming 1)boring and 2) annoying. If you never find the ability to read another's work to completion, you will very likely never begin to realize true depth and completeness in your ond systems/ideas. Since wea re at an enneagram site, perhaps you should consider your approach to being the one that leads you unable to communicate you ideas and being drawn more and more into your own systems. It is great to think for yourself, but learning what others have thought/realized/found before only sharpens and deepens your own thoughts. It also keeps you from spending years reinventing the wheel in your own mind only to find out that while you have been ruminating, the world has taken to the air. When you are ready to graduate to greater thinking, let me know, I will recomend some good starting points.
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