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Comment on: The Danger of Thinking.

Bigthink — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:37:59 +0100

To be advantageous, it should be a matter of doing both simultaneously.

Comment on: The Danger of Thinking.

Bigthink — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:59:24 +0100

This was something that just popped into my head one day. So your not supposed to read that much into it. But...

Pretty much what I was trying to say is: While philosophers and great minds do shape the world in time, they don't really act. The first to act always seem to be the greedy, or the opportunist. America isn't a superpower because they had the best philosophy, they are economically ahead because they are capitalist. Genghis Khan wasn't a great thinker (at least in a philosophical stand). Napoleon has no quotes or ideals by which anyone lives by, yet they are the ones who changed the world.
The wise have no place in drastic global changes. It's the greedy who historically make the biggest mot drastic changes.
I realize that in time absolutely it's the genius that changes the world. Da Vinci, Aristotle, Newton, great inventors, and movement leaders have shaped humanity to what it has become today. But world changing events, wars, devastating attacks, genocide, even time periods like the inquisition or the McCarthy era, drastic rapid change has more often than not been negative and fueled by an opportunistic mind, not an enlightened one. The greedy man acts, the wise man reacts.

It's simple, and probably not a very valid argument, but it's a thought I had. And it made me think that while all these brilliant people on this website are talking to each other and asking questions to each other and debating on the meaning of life and where humanity should go, some power hungary idiot is making greedy decisions that kill thousands of people.

Thats about it.

Comment on: The Danger of Thinking.

Bigthink — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:09:57 +0100

What are you trying to gain from thinking, which you speak of as an activity that requires one to sit down and focus solely on "thinking"? What is this action? And who beats you to what?

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Bigthink — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:32:59 +0100

I'll have to "think" about it ;-)

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Bigthink — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:20:51 +0100

depends on your definition of "think"

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Bigthink — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:25:19 +0100

I would say that am always thinking and acting, except when I'm asleep at which point I'm doing neither