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To: freelyhovering who wrote (29184)	8/1/2010 1:16:09 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51713

Thank you for that. I will work on that, for the rest of my life-lol. I am curious to see what they know and think they know. Sort of funny, we start out knowing nothing, then we start to learn and we end up knowing nothing, for sure. At first, we think we are learning a lot, then as we learn more and more and see the huge mistakes we make over a lifetime and our best and brightest have made over the centuries, how life is so relative and dependent on perspective, our knowledge starts to get fuzzy again. In the end we realize the human mind runs into a sort of barrier of capability and malfunction e.g. our inability to shake our mistaken dogmas. Beyond a certain capability our perceptions get fuzzy and we cannot be sure of much of anything. And we all have massive blind spots we are not even aware of. Our supreme court is supposed to be the best and brightest people in the country, yet they are constantly voting 5/4,5/,5/4. That tells me there is great confusion about law which we are taught is rational and fair and our ability to communicate. Worse, is what is happening on the other end of the intellectual spectrum i.e. those who take no interest in learning. They do not even see or understand their ignorance a little bit e.g. Lindsey Lohan, except as a sort of vague feeling some people know some things better than they do, but is of little or no importance except when they break a leg or get sick. Doctors. Having some understanding of ones ignorance, blind spots, zen and existentialism is about as good as we can do I think. PS and I see no way the human species evolves intellectually and by way, culturally, fast enough to avoid our own destruction. Humans seem little aware of things like their ethnocentrism, jingoism, limits of growth, global warming, world pollution, and the threat of nuclear weapons? We cannot even solve our illegal immigration problem. We do not even know where to start.