This whole appeal to authority thing is what makes me laugh. Like it's a water tight argument that disproves anything.
If you do not physically know the truth of something and you argue it as a truth then you are appealing to what you believe is the authority of that in order to argue it.
That does not make something untrue no more than it makes something true.
So, basically I'm using it as a fact based on that scenario. You can only agree with that out of honesty.
Heart surgeons learn from other's knowledge.
No issue.
A car mechanic learns from what others have done before him.
No issue.
We have years and years of kniwledge and understanding which is passed down.
Yep and much of it serves a purpose.
The issue comes down to what serves a purpose of factual info and what serves a purpose of stories of fiction. They can all serve a purpose for all or some.
You can revise and recite anything you choose to study. You can then go to a quiz or even mastermind and relay that back as questions are asked on what you studied.
You may get all questions correct.
What you studied may have been Harry Potter from start to present/finish.
Does it make you a genius? Does it make you a scientist? Does it make you more clever than someone who revised and recited another story?
But that's fiction, right?
Revise ancient history or go back to the writing of the dinosaurs and how they were wiped out by a big asteroid and so on and so on.
Does this make you a scientist or a genius or any more clever than the Harry Potter reciter?
Does it make you more clever than someone who simply observes nature and pieces bits and pieces?
Knowledge is the ability to soak up teachings, whether they're based on truth's or based on fiction or potentials/theories.
Those who choose to absorb one thing over another without knowing a truth are no wiser to a truth than the one not absorbing any of it.
Learning to cook something, you just follow a recipe. This is how it is done, this makes the meal.
And you can do it and see the results.
Nobody says I've never made a cake before so I'll just throw in some random ingredients and see what comes out.
But that's how cakes are made. It just comes down to particular cakes that have been tried and tested and we can all p[rove it to ourselves.
The distrust of anything taught is total paranoia.It's absurd.
I agree. But then again everything is not on the table.
But it only seems to be stuff that is hard to comprehend.
It depends on what you mean by, hard to comprehend. Go back to the stories above.
Imagine having to think how tiny and insignificant you are in the grand scheme of things...
We aren't tiny compared to ants or flies but we are compared to Earth or a giraffe or an elephant...etc.
As for significance. All bacteria has a significance. That's all we are.
you life time is the longest amount of time you can ever experience and the most important thing that happens to you, yet you're only one out 7 billion people on the planet and are here for about 80 years and the earth is billions of years old.
You have absolutely no idea how old this Earth is. The story told to you only offers you that knowledge as your potential truth.
You exist. You think. You do and you expire. That's it. In my opinion.
That can mess with your head a bit when you start thinking about it.
It can and it can make your thoughts on your worth become pointless. But it depends on how you want to view it.
Your value to this Earth is exactly the same as any other human being or insect or piece of matter...etc.
The need to wrest back some control occurs. Anything I don't understand is made up.
Anything you don;t understand you try to understand it if it interests you.
You'll never understand most things in life. Nor will I or anyone else.
I didn't succeed in school so I don't trust that shite.
What is succeeding in school?
Here's a question for anyone. Please jump- in to answer even if it's just this one question.
Question: Do you know of a loser at school who left school to become well off and look to have much more than you have even though you classed letters on certificates as your success?
Be totally honest, because I know lots.
University of life me, pal.
You are your own university of your own life. You're an open university.
Repeating stuff you've been told? Anybody can do that.
And we all do.