Are you too sensitive, to information? Like if data requires action - do you act now or later?

[Gottservant]

Hi there,

So I am just wondering if it is possible to be too sensitive to information. Like you think you understand things, that to other people - don't make sense. Or you say something "doesn't make sense" but actually, you say it in an almost identical way to everyone else? And it doesn't make you think, maybe I need to know less (or at least a little less)?

Like that would be humility, right? If you knew you knew, but knew you didn't need to know? (Could you humble yourself that way?)

There is sense in not assuming too much, I understand that: I am just wondering if even the expectation of knowing something, is somehow rooted in a self-centeredness that grounded reason, wouldn't justify? (for example, if it turned out that you didn't actually have a job associated with what you thought you knew, for some reason)? (like some people say "oh that, I know about that, that's just religion" but actually most religions actually do something with their faith - whereas someone who just knows "about" it, hasn't actually worked out whether it even has something to do with life (a word you say?)?)

Just thinking.

 

[cjstabbo]

Hi there,

So I am just wondering if it is possible to be too sensitive to information. Like you think you understand things, that to other people - don't make sense. Or you say something "doesn't make sense" but actually, you say it in an almost identical way to everyone else? And it doesn't make you think, maybe I need to know less (or at least a little less)?

Like that would be humility, right? If you knew you knew, but knew you didn't need to know? (Could you humble yourself that way?)

There is sense in not assuming too much, I understand that: I am just wondering if even the expectation of knowing something, is somehow rooted in a self-centeredness that grounded reason, wouldn't justify? (for example, if it turned out that you didn't actually have a job associated with what you thought you knew, for some reason)? (like some people say "oh that, I know about that, that's just religion" but actually most religions actually do something with their faith - whereas someone who just knows "about" it, hasn't actually worked out whether it even has something to do with life (a word you say?)?)

Just thinking.

What is sensitivity?
Sensitivity is a feeling that warns you that you are over using your other emotional faculties.

 

[paulm50]

Hi there,

So I am just wondering if it is possible to be too sensitive to information. Like you think you understand things, that to other people - don't make sense. Or you say something "doesn't make sense" but actually, you say it in an almost identical way to everyone else? And it doesn't make you think, maybe I need to know less (or at least a little less)?

Like that would be humility, right? If you knew you knew, but knew you didn't need to know? (Could you humble yourself that way?)

There is sense in not assuming too much, I understand that: I am just wondering if even the expectation of knowing something, is somehow rooted in a self-centeredness that grounded reason, wouldn't justify? (for example, if it turned out that you didn't actually have a job associated with what you thought you knew, for some reason)? (like some people say "oh that, I know about that, that's just religion" but actually most religions actually do something with their faith - whereas someone who just knows "about" it, hasn't actually worked out whether it even has something to do with life (a word you say?)?)

Just thinking.

The hardest thing to change is what a person believes. Even when faced with overwhelming evidence, many will hang on to a belief that's absurd.

Phobias are an obvious one. How about racism in any form down to tribalism or for want of a better word "groupism".

Some will always believe another race is inferior, another religion, or the non religious, and this even goes down to one group, say Southerners, thinking Northerners are less. And vise versa.

When it comes to religion and creationism v evolution. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. And still some believe it was all done in seven day or in the way the bible tells.

So the information demands they adapt, and they take no action. Because "the expectation of knowing something, is somehow rooted in a self-centeredness that grounded reason".

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

The hardest thing to change is what a person believes. Even when faced with overwhelming evidence, many will hang on to a belief that's absurd.

Phobias are an obvious one.

I agree with what you say in general, but I'd query whether phobias are a belief that people cling to; I suspect most phobics desperately want to be rid of their phobia; the problem is that they have no conscious control over it.

 

[Emmy]

Dear Gottservant. I think I understand what you mean, here is something I understand and would dearly like to share. God is Love, and God wants loving sons and daughters. In Matthew 22: 35-40: Jesus tells us:
"The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
The second is like it: love thy neighbour as thyself." How do we do it? In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told:
" ask and you shall receive," We ask God for Love and Joy, then we thank God, and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour. We keep asking and receiving, then thank God and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour.
( neighbour is all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends) That is easy to understand and straightforward.
God will see our loving efforts, and God will approve and bless us.
The Bible tells us: " Repent and be Born Again," we change our old nature which is selfish and unloving, to a
new nature: be loving and caring and kind and considerate. The Holy Spirit will help and guide us, and
Jesus our Saviour will lead us all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY. We find that people will treat us the same as we treat people, life will become enjoyable. We also find that gradually we are changing into the men and women which God wants us to be. I say this with love, Gottservant. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.