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We don't know what we don't know (Original Post) gab13by13 Dec 2021 OP
And we don't know how much we don't know Walleye Dec 2021 #1
I'll bet there's a lot that I don't know that I don't know. gab13by13 Dec 2021 #5
I got plenty of nuttin Throck Dec 2021 #2
Love it, I think the singer is a Buddhist? gab13by13 Dec 2021 #6
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". kentuck Dec 2021 #3
That's why... PJMcK Dec 2021 #4
Click on the Porgy and Bess link, gab13by13 Dec 2021 #7
there are onethatcares Dec 2021 #8
Who knows the known unknowns? gab13by13 Dec 2021 #9
you'll have to ask onethatcares Dec 2021 #11
He caught flak for that but it made sense TxGuitar Dec 2021 #14
not gonna do it,nope onethatcares Dec 2021 #15
See, that's another one TxGuitar Dec 2021 #16
hell, dubya was smiling throughout his administration onethatcares Dec 2021 #19
If you're not outraged that you don't know stuff then you're...calm and patient. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #10
I never said that, gab13by13 Dec 2021 #13
Exactly. But there are some who insist that not knowing something means they know something Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #18
And that's why curiosity leads to discovery. MineralMan Dec 2021 #12
It is what it is. Midnight Writer Dec 2021 #17

Walleye

(31,008 posts)
1. And we don't know how much we don't know
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 09:44 AM
Dec 2021

Or to quote Bob Seger, “wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then”

gab13by13

(21,304 posts)
5. I'll bet there's a lot that I don't know that I don't know.
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 10:10 AM
Dec 2021

But tonight, my new hobby continues, reading books that have been banned. I am starting to read the Books of Enoch hoping I can find out how much I don't know I don't know. I read the prelude last night and this book is very interesting as Schultz would say.

PJMcK

(22,031 posts)
4. That's why...
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 10:08 AM
Dec 2021

… we have:

The James Webb Space Telescope
The January 6th Select Committee
The Centers for Disease Control

TxGuitar

(4,190 posts)
14. He caught flak for that but it made sense
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 11:00 AM
Dec 2021

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

No defending a war criminal, but it's a pretty logical statement considering the administration it came from.

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)
15. not gonna do it,nope
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 11:09 AM
Dec 2021

not going to discuss the logic of the past two repuke administrations. Nope, not going down that road.

I ask, "Is our children learning?"

TxGuitar

(4,190 posts)
16. See, that's another one
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 11:10 AM
Dec 2021

it sounds bad but in the video he's smiling when he says it, like he's making a joke.
Again, not defending, but picking battles.

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)
19. hell, dubya was smiling throughout his administration
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 01:09 PM
Dec 2021

and when it was over, he painted his toes .

most logical thing about his admin was a bumper sticker that said, "Somewhere in Texas a village is missing it's idiot"

gab13by13

(21,304 posts)
13. I never said that,
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 10:53 AM
Dec 2021

of course there are many things that I don't know, that's one reason I read so much, but I can't read about the things that I don't know I don't know.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,585 posts)
18. Exactly. But there are some who insist that not knowing something means they know something
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 12:13 PM
Dec 2021

And they are outraged by the knowledge they claim to have gained by not knowing something.

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