TruthSeeker
12-18-02, 11:43 PM
Why do we talk with each other? To express our ideas? To find out other's ideas? Or we just always search for everyone to agree with us? Whatever intention we might have while talking with one another, the idea is never and probably will never be accuratly expressed. Why? Let's take a look on some of the aspects of conversation (given that it is held in the same language and the level of language between the two people is the same).
The first thing about conversations is that it always only happens with two people. It is always a relationship with 2 people where each action/word leads to a reaction/answer of the other, and it happens back and forth, like a pingue-pong game.
Also, if you are dealing with a group of people, the situation gets much more complex. To actually say something that someone previously said is certainly a recipe for disaster. The way the human mind can twist someone's words is very impressive:eek: . If you doubt me, just play that game where you have to whisper something in someone's ear and that person has to pass it through until the first person hear it. In the end, the message is completly different! :bugeye:
The second thing is that each person will react in a different way to every word, as they actually have their own personal conceptions about every single word, based in their past experiences. If you have a loving family, when someone speaks to you about family, you will understand it as a group of people that is always helping and encouraging each other. If you have a family that abuse you, when someone speaks to you about family, you will understand it as a group of people that is always fighting and hurting each other.
My third point is derived from the second one. If each person has a different set of experiences/beliefs of each word (concept), the probability that you will ever communicate what you are trying to say tend to be very close to zero! If you understand others with your own concepts, you will most likely misunderstand everyone around you (what it's actually what usually happens!). This implies that we all live in separate "realities", in completly different worlds; and that we all try to understand each other by looking through our own world (which is the reason why most people can't understand each other very well). This also means that the whole world that we know in our minds is made of a bunch of illusions derived from ourselves. Unless we can look at things without using what we know, our experiences, then our understanding of the world will always be illusional. This world is a big illusion.
My last point is that our actions follow the "reality" that we know through our past experiences and our distorded view of the world, hence all the mistakes everyone make.
If you ever wondered why atheists can't understand you, or why theists can't understand you... :rolleyes: :bugeye: :eek:
Concluding, the only possible way to really understand this world and understand each other is by trying to be completly impartial and completly open-minded about everyone. If we don't co-operate with each other it is very likely that anyone will ever understand this world or life itself.
We are all pretty blinded by our own eyes...!:bugeye: :eek:
The first thing about conversations is that it always only happens with two people. It is always a relationship with 2 people where each action/word leads to a reaction/answer of the other, and it happens back and forth, like a pingue-pong game.
Also, if you are dealing with a group of people, the situation gets much more complex. To actually say something that someone previously said is certainly a recipe for disaster. The way the human mind can twist someone's words is very impressive:eek: . If you doubt me, just play that game where you have to whisper something in someone's ear and that person has to pass it through until the first person hear it. In the end, the message is completly different! :bugeye:
The second thing is that each person will react in a different way to every word, as they actually have their own personal conceptions about every single word, based in their past experiences. If you have a loving family, when someone speaks to you about family, you will understand it as a group of people that is always helping and encouraging each other. If you have a family that abuse you, when someone speaks to you about family, you will understand it as a group of people that is always fighting and hurting each other.
My third point is derived from the second one. If each person has a different set of experiences/beliefs of each word (concept), the probability that you will ever communicate what you are trying to say tend to be very close to zero! If you understand others with your own concepts, you will most likely misunderstand everyone around you (what it's actually what usually happens!). This implies that we all live in separate "realities", in completly different worlds; and that we all try to understand each other by looking through our own world (which is the reason why most people can't understand each other very well). This also means that the whole world that we know in our minds is made of a bunch of illusions derived from ourselves. Unless we can look at things without using what we know, our experiences, then our understanding of the world will always be illusional. This world is a big illusion.
My last point is that our actions follow the "reality" that we know through our past experiences and our distorded view of the world, hence all the mistakes everyone make.
If you ever wondered why atheists can't understand you, or why theists can't understand you... :rolleyes: :bugeye: :eek:
Concluding, the only possible way to really understand this world and understand each other is by trying to be completly impartial and completly open-minded about everyone. If we don't co-operate with each other it is very likely that anyone will ever understand this world or life itself.
We are all pretty blinded by our own eyes...!:bugeye: :eek: