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What Have You Learned at RF?
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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I was talking about the other shoe.You said you weren't ever going to bring that up!
I suspect that I've regressed.
what have I learned during my time on RF?
Well, to start with, RF doesn't happen inside a vacuum (although some may disagree, and some may say that it positively sucks), so along with the other things that have happened in my life in the past 7+ years, I've learned things like:
Stop taking every disagreement personally; many times, it's not about me, and I should listen much more than I speak...
Take time to laugh, and not at someone else's expense...
There's some things that just aren't worth arguing about...
There's some people its just not worth arguing with...they aren't bad..we just have communication problems between us...or points of view that won't budge...
While it's nice to receive frubals, it's better to give them...and the frubal-to-post ratio is very unimportant...
Well, to start with, RF doesn't happen inside a vacuum (although some may disagree, and some may say that it positively sucks), so along with the other things that have happened in my life in the past 7+ years, I've learned things like:
Stop taking every disagreement personally; many times, it's not about me, and I should listen much more than I speak...
Take time to laugh, and not at someone else's expense...
There's some things that just aren't worth arguing about...
There's some people its just not worth arguing with...they aren't bad..we just have communication problems between us...or points of view that won't budge...
While it's nice to receive frubals, it's better to give them...and the frubal-to-post ratio is very unimportant...
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
One thing I am reminded of from time to time is to not argue too forcefully in real life. RF has made me used to defending my ideas and dealing with someone defending their ideas. In real life, people are not generally willing to go to the mat over minor differences! So, throttle back in real life conversations!
I can't say that what follows comes exclusively from my participation in Religious Forums, or in others in the past, or even in my daily and unending reading of newspapers and books, and my conversations with the ordinary folk I call friends and acquaintances.
But here's something of which I am now absolutely convinced: we humans are indeed capable of believing what we want, however realistically improbable, and ignoring what we don't like, however well attested. And as a result, I am very seriously convinced that we are on the threshold, within only a few generations quite likely, of extinguishing our existence and this planet. And because this planet is the only place we've got, for likely longer than the next few generations, our existence in the universe.
And I've learned that the politics of only the last ten years or so has actually accelerated that eventuality, along with the dizzying increase in sciences (Moore's Law) that could help, but will probably hurt more. A pity, but fortunately, at 70, I will likely not go through it.
But here's something of which I am now absolutely convinced: we humans are indeed capable of believing what we want, however realistically improbable, and ignoring what we don't like, however well attested. And as a result, I am very seriously convinced that we are on the threshold, within only a few generations quite likely, of extinguishing our existence and this planet. And because this planet is the only place we've got, for likely longer than the next few generations, our existence in the universe.
And I've learned that the politics of only the last ten years or so has actually accelerated that eventuality, along with the dizzying increase in sciences (Moore's Law) that could help, but will probably hurt more. A pity, but fortunately, at 70, I will likely not go through it.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm still trying to learn Jabberwocky as well. ,;0)
The planet has already endured catastrophes (which aren't prizes for the cat
with the best butt) far worse than anything we could do to it. (Imagine when
that Mars sized planet collided with Earth, & created the Moon.) The planet
will survive us. The question is whether we will like the results.
Oh, I agree that the planet will survive us. My point is that we are unlikely to be here to have any opinion at all about the result. And I think the answer to that is "no."
I think we're more adaptable than that.
But there would be turmoil.
I have definitely learned a lot; especially that questioning the value of what someone treasures intensely, sometimes gets you trashed.
Really?
I've never <snicker> experienced that.
MonkeyFire
Well-Known Member
I'm not suppose to learn.
Then you've not gone downhill.Eh, nothing off the top of my head.
I'm the same obnoxious and arrogant alcoholic I've always been.
You got me beat!
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
Then I win the thread, right???
Absolutely!
well, not so much, as this isn't a winning thread...
That's just loser talk.
And while you lose, I'll be winning.
whine all you want...this isn't the winning thread you're looking for...