quietpraiyze
In The Secret Place
There is something I've noticed and I've actually been watching it for a while...
There is this residual of Google that I'm not even sure they knew would come about. It's kind of interesting to me how Google has some people thinking they're "learned" when in fact they really are not. I have a certain academic background that affords me to know when someone doesn't know my particular Discipline but they're trying to act like they do (I'm sure this has happened to others as well). Instead of saying they don't know, they run and Google so called Statistics and/or pull down videos on YouTube. To me this is both dishonest and tragic. I can't have a real conversation with someone who pretends to know something they don't and that annoys me because there's no real hope of real friendship/relationship. However in truth I don't think those who do this behavior want to have a real conversation for precisely that reason. They just want to win. They want to "conquer" you if they can to feel like they've accomplished something...I guess. I actually think it's worse in some Christian circles with their "Google theology" because they're trying to act like they have some kind of divine understanding, when it's just a bunch of memorization and regurgitation. It's all so hollow. Fortunately for me I grew up in a time when conversation was a real part of human interaction. If I hadn't grown up with those kinds of exchanges, looking at today's "internet conversations" I wouldn't even know real conversations used to exist in an honest manner between humans. The fact that here we are in 2018 and some people who claim they're adults don't know...wow.
That felt good to say...
There is this residual of Google that I'm not even sure they knew would come about. It's kind of interesting to me how Google has some people thinking they're "learned" when in fact they really are not. I have a certain academic background that affords me to know when someone doesn't know my particular Discipline but they're trying to act like they do (I'm sure this has happened to others as well). Instead of saying they don't know, they run and Google so called Statistics and/or pull down videos on YouTube. To me this is both dishonest and tragic. I can't have a real conversation with someone who pretends to know something they don't and that annoys me because there's no real hope of real friendship/relationship. However in truth I don't think those who do this behavior want to have a real conversation for precisely that reason. They just want to win. They want to "conquer" you if they can to feel like they've accomplished something...I guess. I actually think it's worse in some Christian circles with their "Google theology" because they're trying to act like they have some kind of divine understanding, when it's just a bunch of memorization and regurgitation. It's all so hollow. Fortunately for me I grew up in a time when conversation was a real part of human interaction. If I hadn't grown up with those kinds of exchanges, looking at today's "internet conversations" I wouldn't even know real conversations used to exist in an honest manner between humans. The fact that here we are in 2018 and some people who claim they're adults don't know...wow.
That felt good to say...
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