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<blockquote data-quote="SelfSim" data-source="post: 76397502" data-attributes="member: 354922"><p>No. I have abandoned many strained friendships where the principle of <em>'everything is politics', </em>(meaning opinions), lies close to the surface in just about every conversation with these folk. There's just no intellectual 'juice' to keep me sufficiently interested in keeping such relationships going.</p><p></p><p>The above principle those folk operate from seems to be accompanied by their lack of ability to support their opinions. In fact they seem to all have the common characteristic of getting very agressive when the slightest enquiry is made about what they continually assume (and push) as being hard fact.</p><p></p><p>As I age, wisdom, to me, is about acquiring the knowledge and skills to 'find out', rather than just take other people's opinions as being just so. I generally lose respect when I can see others show that they have no intentions of 'finding out' for themselves using objective reasoning as the process of acquiring knowledge .. and thus wisdom.</p><p></p><p>Am I just being arrogant?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SelfSim, post: 76397502, member: 354922"] No. I have abandoned many strained friendships where the principle of [I]'everything is politics', [/I](meaning opinions), lies close to the surface in just about every conversation with these folk. There's just no intellectual 'juice' to keep me sufficiently interested in keeping such relationships going. The above principle those folk operate from seems to be accompanied by their lack of ability to support their opinions. In fact they seem to all have the common characteristic of getting very agressive when the slightest enquiry is made about what they continually assume (and push) as being hard fact. As I age, wisdom, to me, is about acquiring the knowledge and skills to 'find out', rather than just take other people's opinions as being just so. I generally lose respect when I can see others show that they have no intentions of 'finding out' for themselves using objective reasoning as the process of acquiring knowledge .. and thus wisdom. Am I just being arrogant? [/QUOTE]
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