Posted by laima on August 22, 2006, at 18:43:20
In reply to Re: Doing nothing » laima, posted by AuntieMel on August 22, 2006, at 18:21:29
So complicated, I know! It's a "million dollar question"!
You bring up a good point- even if we live through a dramatic event, we remember and explain it from our own viewpoint, with conviction. I agree it's best to seek out varied sources of info, as well as to consider or to "try on" varying points of view, as an excercise in open-mindedness if nothing else-but still worry that it's often still based on a collection of other people's opinions and biases- and if I make a full time job of reading every available news source, what does that do to my own mental health, or energy for any hope of true wisdom or compassion? Or what if getting overwhelmed by the politics of far away news burdens me to a point that I become unresponsive to people in my own vicinity, or divide them up into good/bad? I don't want to end up bitter or dogmatic either...I'm just not sure, but am so curious about views on the topic. I'd love some easy infallible answers. Where IS the Dali Lama when he's needed on the forum? :) I don't know what else I could ever say about this topic- I think you summed it up well. And no easy answers.
> Ah, but even when we live through something first hand, we still have only what we can see with our limited vision.
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> The best we can do is actively seek out varied sources for our information and form our own opinions.
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> But that's a lot of work.
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> I do like the idea of strategic nothingness, though. But where do you start?
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