Category: "Worldview"
What Good is That?
This is a 'first' in my blogs - I am starting to write this without knowing where it is going to end up! The trigger was the thought that I enjoy learning - I will 'devour' new information - I often follow trails through the world wide web and find myself at places that I didn't envisage when I started on the journey.
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Exploring a Grey Area
The leap from doing good to doing evil is often no more than a tiny step. Those of us who try to be 'good' might want to think that we are almost immune from the 'dark side' unless we make a mistake - but the reality is that (at least in my eyes) in many aspects of our lives there is a continuum stretching from 'perfectly good' at one end to 'perfectly evil' at the other - and the nature of continuums is that somewhere along the line we step over from one side to the other!
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, ----------
The Other Side Of "If Only"
When you start to think about it, it is sobering - no - downright scary just how many people and events may be affected in the future by the decisions we make, individually and collectively, today. I may believe that I have some idea of the immediate effects however, given the way that the world is now connected so much more than ever before, it is next to impossible to determine the totality of the effect of each and every decision we make.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Complexity, Decision Making, Worldview, ----------
If Only
I have had personal and harrowing experience of the "if only" thoughts - I find it hardest to deal with in respect of how my actions (or my inaction) affects other people. I don't mean directly - since that is 'usually' understood at the time - at least to a certain extent - I am talking about decisions that have long term repercussions that are far from what is envisaged.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Decision Making, Worldview, ----------
A Word That Deserves a Better Press
There are some words that fall into disuse. There are other words that people are scared of. There are words that change their meaning over time. We all use too many words without thinking. Words play a huge part in everyone's life. I'd like to talk about an adjective that we seemingly try to avoid - vulnerable.
Categories: Philosophical, Friends, Worldview, ----------
The Meaning of Average
What a bizarre headline for an article was my first thought, but then - is this how most people think? Then again - bizarre headlines are not exactly unusual - they appear everywhere and are mainly designed to pull in the unsuspecting reader.
Categories: Friends, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
History Is What We Make It
The fact that our memory is nearly 100% fallible (note that I am not saying 100% wrong) means that to some extent we need to doubt what we have really experienced in the past. Our own personal life story is full of bits and pieces that our minds have made up to "fill in the gaps" between the reality that we actually do remember correctly.
Categories: Philosophical, Friends, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Games People Play
We all do it - whether it is keeping something a secret or "putting on a face" when we are feeling down or slapping on the makeup to make us look better than we do (NOT something I indulge in personally
) or dressing for dinner - its all an act - a game we play to hide the 'reality' in one way or another from someone or other.
Its Not Just the Big Picture
The devil is in the detail
Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
Big things come in small packages
The longest journey begins with one step
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Understanding Backwards
It was Søren Kierkegaard who said that (and I paraphrase) life can only be understood backwards however we must live it forwards. Although I have been aware of that quote for quite some time it is only recently that I have begun to understand the real nature and truth of it.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Faith, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
