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Jul. 3rd, 2004 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaSo, I made another list on a bus. Or, not a list, maybe... more like an outline. Clearly, I have too much free time.
"The way I think," condensed into easy-to-follow recipe format!
- Question everything.
- The question is more important than the answer. The question is growth; the answer is entropy.
- Assumptions are never objective-- identify your assumptions & analyze the resulting reasoning for linear or associative jumps (though some jumps are, of course, inevitable).
- Assumptions/beliefs which aren't 'refreshed' or challenged will naturally attract flawed/jumpy reasoning with time, like bread attracts mold.
- Thus, pure belief/assumption thinking is always wrong-- though there's no superiority implied by that statement. It's simply the flip-side of the basic tenet of subjectivism: everyone is right. It only follows that everyone is also wrong.
- Saying 'everyone is wrong' is as lazy as 'everyone is right', but it's helpful to realize that principle of uncertainty.
- The key is learning how to think & not accepting even your own conclusions as more than working theories. This is the difference between learning and knowing. 'Knowing' is not thinking; it's not a learning-curved process and is therefore subject to deteriorative behavior.
- Most people's errors in judgement happen because they don't know how to think without becoming complacent.
- The process of sharpening your perception is more useful than any possible result.
- Love or any other emotion shouldn't become an excuse for operating in a static mindset.
- Avoid using excuses in general-- they prevent further questioning and are thus unhelpful.
- Mental stasis based on unquestioned beliefs/assumptions creates holes in perception and thus one's overall intelligence.
- Therefore an unquestioned, static religious belief is detrimental to overall mental acuity. On the other hand, a 'humbler', more philosophical approach to metaphysical subjects isn't intrinsically 'the opiate of the masses', as per Marx.
- No single -fixed- philosophical system can be correct.
- 'Subjectivism' doesn't excuse accepting stasis. True 'progress' doesn't have an end goal in mind-- the progress is a continuous process of minute adjustments to and re-evaluations of all mental constructs.
- Intelligence is directly proportional to the degree of mental fluidity coupled with perceptive acuity in motion.
- Motion is life. Stasis is entropy.
- The X-Files had it right: Trust No One's (version of reality-- even-- especially your own). And The Truth Is Out There.
- Finding contradictions means you're on the right track.
- As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you can imagine, invent and play in thousands of make-believe worlds made of symbol and non-linear association. Dreams are doors to your own truths.
- The truth is multifaceted and contradictory, like a crystal with incomprehensible levels of complexity. But it -is- out there.
- You'll never find it. Keep looking.
~~
Also. This is totally random, and I'm sure no one cares, but. Lip-stubble!Harry?? Is strangely hot. I'm just sayin'! He'd look like such a... messy teenager, y'know. 'Cause like, would he really shave religiously (about as religiously as he brushes his hair, right)? Suddenly, I have this vision of him as like... dorky looking. Y'know those boys, with the messy hair and thick brows and the glasses and the painfully awkward-looking lip-stubble that never grows into a mustache? Omg, <3333333
I mean, it totally wouldn't work with Draco at -all-, though. Like... he might have a goatee after Hogwarts at some point, but I can't imagine him with stubble, really. It would just be too... weird. OOC, even! Ahahahah. But it's just funny how everyone writes the boys as smooth and hairless, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure Malfoy is, and Harry's probably somewhat... on the low side, but still. Lip-stubble is just so freakin' -cute-, man.
And... on the topic of disturbingly hot things... ahah.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
florahart's slash!H/G & the het/femslash!H/R sequel are just.... yeah. Ahh, fumbly first-time smut. It's so... beautiful :D Though Harry & Ron in luuurve kinda... makes me laugh, heh. Maybe it's the casual, everyday friendship thing. Maybe it's just. In my head, only really soppy boys say stuff like that, and I'd imagine it'd only be to a girl, 'cause 'girls are different'. But what do I know.
It just occurred to me how much I appreciate Dahlia's H/D arc for never getting soppy amid all the smut, man. Ahhh, it gets me all soppy & emotional, just thinking about it. >:D I'm just weird, aren't I. I have this irrational attachment to boys being the emotionally stunted dorks that they are.
"The way I think," condensed into easy-to-follow recipe format!
- Question everything.
- The question is more important than the answer. The question is growth; the answer is entropy.
- Assumptions are never objective-- identify your assumptions & analyze the resulting reasoning for linear or associative jumps (though some jumps are, of course, inevitable).
- Assumptions/beliefs which aren't 'refreshed' or challenged will naturally attract flawed/jumpy reasoning with time, like bread attracts mold.
- Thus, pure belief/assumption thinking is always wrong-- though there's no superiority implied by that statement. It's simply the flip-side of the basic tenet of subjectivism: everyone is right. It only follows that everyone is also wrong.
- Saying 'everyone is wrong' is as lazy as 'everyone is right', but it's helpful to realize that principle of uncertainty.
- The key is learning how to think & not accepting even your own conclusions as more than working theories. This is the difference between learning and knowing. 'Knowing' is not thinking; it's not a learning-curved process and is therefore subject to deteriorative behavior.
- Most people's errors in judgement happen because they don't know how to think without becoming complacent.
- The process of sharpening your perception is more useful than any possible result.
- Love or any other emotion shouldn't become an excuse for operating in a static mindset.
- Avoid using excuses in general-- they prevent further questioning and are thus unhelpful.
- Mental stasis based on unquestioned beliefs/assumptions creates holes in perception and thus one's overall intelligence.
- Therefore an unquestioned, static religious belief is detrimental to overall mental acuity. On the other hand, a 'humbler', more philosophical approach to metaphysical subjects isn't intrinsically 'the opiate of the masses', as per Marx.
- No single -fixed- philosophical system can be correct.
- 'Subjectivism' doesn't excuse accepting stasis. True 'progress' doesn't have an end goal in mind-- the progress is a continuous process of minute adjustments to and re-evaluations of all mental constructs.
- Intelligence is directly proportional to the degree of mental fluidity coupled with perceptive acuity in motion.
- Motion is life. Stasis is entropy.
- The X-Files had it right: Trust No One's (version of reality-- even-- especially your own). And The Truth Is Out There.
- Finding contradictions means you're on the right track.
- As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you can imagine, invent and play in thousands of make-believe worlds made of symbol and non-linear association. Dreams are doors to your own truths.
- The truth is multifaceted and contradictory, like a crystal with incomprehensible levels of complexity. But it -is- out there.
- You'll never find it. Keep looking.
~~
Also. This is totally random, and I'm sure no one cares, but. Lip-stubble!Harry?? Is strangely hot. I'm just sayin'! He'd look like such a... messy teenager, y'know. 'Cause like, would he really shave religiously (about as religiously as he brushes his hair, right)? Suddenly, I have this vision of him as like... dorky looking. Y'know those boys, with the messy hair and thick brows and the glasses and the painfully awkward-looking lip-stubble that never grows into a mustache? Omg, <3333333
I mean, it totally wouldn't work with Draco at -all-, though. Like... he might have a goatee after Hogwarts at some point, but I can't imagine him with stubble, really. It would just be too... weird. OOC, even! Ahahahah. But it's just funny how everyone writes the boys as smooth and hairless, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure Malfoy is, and Harry's probably somewhat... on the low side, but still. Lip-stubble is just so freakin' -cute-, man.
And... on the topic of disturbingly hot things... ahah.
florahart's slash!H/G & the het/femslash!H/R sequel are just.... yeah. Ahh, fumbly first-time smut. It's so... beautiful :D Though Harry & Ron in luuurve kinda... makes me laugh, heh. Maybe it's the casual, everyday friendship thing. Maybe it's just. In my head, only really soppy boys say stuff like that, and I'd imagine it'd only be to a girl, 'cause 'girls are different'. But what do I know.It just occurred to me how much I appreciate Dahlia's H/D arc for never getting soppy amid all the smut, man. Ahhh, it gets me all soppy & emotional, just thinking about it. >:D I'm just weird, aren't I. I have this irrational attachment to boys being the emotionally stunted dorks that they are.
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Date: 2004-07-07 03:48 pm (UTC)If you only knew. Ron/Draco and Snape/Draco are my all-time squickiest slash pairings, man. Well, back when I was more squickable :> :> Now I just don't -care- about anything but my OTPs :>
Ron-as-Mulder makes me all...... o_0 ahahaha