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which is that a lot of our own "wisdom" comes from thrashing pout the same topics repeatedly, and finding new insights once in a while.

Wisdom does build up over time, it cannot happen in one discussion.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 05:04:19 PM EST
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exactly...i never went to law school, (tho' interestingly that's what the vocational guidance counsellor thought i should do when i was 14, lol), but i see this forum as a sparring school, here's where you learn what tricks are used to keep the present unjust systems barrelling along destroying lives and livelihoods, habitat etc.

this place is one long refined counter-argument to the CW that liberals are fuzzy thinking, disorganised, utopian bla bla.

we tear into each others' weak arguments and stop each other falling into traps of illogic, this works to keep the intellect freer from denial and cog-diss.

then we take that out into the world, info ready at our mental fingertips, toughened up by endless shoe-blogs, we can take down goliath....

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 05:07:18 AM EST
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