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Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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RebelSteve33
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

[Re: Zero7a1]
#1790930 - 08/08/03 01:56 AM (21 years, 2 months ago)

When I was in my sophomore year of college, I saw Tool play live in my hometown. I was about 5 rows back from the front of the stage, and it was the best concert I have ever been to in my life.

Think for yourself, question authority.

It seems so banal, yet it is such a good message.

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infidelGOD
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1791006 - 08/08/03 02:44 AM (21 years, 2 months ago)

How do you know you are thinking for yourself when you question authority?

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trendal
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1791344 - 08/08/03 07:53 AM (21 years, 1 month ago)

If you didn't question...you certainly wouldn't be thinking for yourself. So if you do question, you probably are thinking for yourself :wink:

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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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silversoul7
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1791825 - 08/08/03 10:57 AM (21 years, 1 month ago)

But if I'm questioning authority because someone else says so, am I really questioning authority?

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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire

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Amber
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1791895 - 08/08/03 11:20 AM (21 years, 1 month ago)

Nope. The very act of "questioning authority" presupposes some basic existential and epistemological beliefs about the nature of reality. The fact that I exist and am self-aware proves I do not truly question everything. Avoiding truisms is impossible for human cognition; it all comes down to what you choose to believe and whether you're willing to replace those beliefs with new ones in order to gain a different, but no less dependent, perspective.

Amber

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Spokesman
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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1792313 - 08/08/03 01:49 PM (21 years, 1 month ago)

JUST FREAKING QUESTION AUTHORITY ALRIGHT!! DO IT! NOW!!!

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Re: Think for Yourself, Question Authority

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#1792819 - 08/08/03 04:06 PM (21 years, 1 month ago)

Think for yourself
Question authority

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in
this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the
religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by
giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their
view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and
learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;
chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

Think for yourself.
Question authority.

-Tim

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What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?

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