Reply #6: Granted, I'm in a most foul mood...

[OneGrassRoot]

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but I just can't stop thinking this morning about the arrogance of human beings.

And, honestly, it's religious fundamentalists, atheists, spiritualists (new agers), healers, scientists...it really doesn't matter. It's everywhere. There is an arrogance that I KNOW THE TRUTH amongst a certain percentage of all of these groups.

I think that personality type is especially prevalent here at DU, so we see it so much here.

I can honestly say I don't KNOW a damn thing....I don't know for a fact how anything works, as I'm open to the possibility that there are so many things we can't wrap our human brains around just yet and/or things that are beyond the scope of our comprehension.

And, as I've said here repeatedly, I also believe (not know, but believe/feel) that what is one person's absolute truth -- which I respect completely, as I do believe people can know things beyond a shadow of a doubt for themselves -- isn't necessarily a truth for others.

This arrogance is everywhere...it's a mindset and way of being in this world that makes me want to stay under a rock and not interact with people.

And by simply being more mindful of tone and wording, that attitude of arrogance can be avoided. Then again, I do believe many are so immersed in that arrogance that it's their only way of Being and surviving. Heaven forbid they doubt anything...that is seen as weakness, evidently.

What I always loved about Gary Zukav is how he very intentionally -- and sincerely -- would share his opinions and insights by saying, "I suggest that you may want to look at it this way...."

He never said, that I heard or read, "I know this is the way it is."

He suggested. That's a huge difference. And, maybe because I have the type of personality I do, I respond to that approach so much better and can absorb what is being suggested...versus being TOLD.

Perhaps others respond to the other approach much better.

That's just me though. I don't know a damn thing and am not embarrassed or ashamed to admit it.

My only words of advice for my daughter are to simply do her best. Beyond that, I don't know anything, though I may suggest things. ;)

I do fear arrogance may be our ultimate undoing...beyond the obvious ways our arrogance has affected Mother Earth.


ON EDIT: I thought I'd better jump back in to fully acknowledge that it is judgmental of me to feel what I shared above...about arrogance of others. Yes, it is judgmental but it's how I feel.

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