Question of the Day

[ayoub]

How have your perceptions changed over the years?

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Knowledge and logic have helped me discard most of them...

Comments

[rheyamorgaine.livejournal.com]

yes but I will have to discuss how AFTER work. TBC.

[feywild.livejournal.com]

As an adult, I'm more aware and concerned of the world around me and what's going on rather than just the immediate things that personally effect me.

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

It's become a bit harder to find the good in some people.

[amnotcute.livejournal.com]

I've grown up!

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

When it comes to politics and even history of the US i would say that my perceptions today are quite different than they were in the past:

I see liberty as something worth fighting and perhaps dying for. I have a much better understanding of WHEN we began losing freedoms and how it affected our history.

I used to be naive enough to think things would "get better" on their own. Now... i wonder if that is the case. There may be a time in the not-so-distant-future when I will have to defend my beliefs... I'm not looking forward to that day.

♥

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Most haven't really. They've only been proven true in the main.

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

There's no such things as fairy tales.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Cool :D

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I've pulled away from sensation to examine facts. I'm a lot less dramatic than I used to be. I question everything and seek answers instead of relying on other people's opinions.

Knowledge, logic and reason. Occam's razor forever.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Indeed :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That's a good thing!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I've stayed a kid ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Nothing gets better on its own... But all it takes is one catalyst... One rallying cry that touches people.

♥

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

But are there such things as fairies?

:D

[winged-torment.livejournal.com]

I used to have hope in people. I realize now that I tend to deny the fact that the majority of people are not nice, they are not warm, and they are certainly selfish.

I have also come to realzie that meaningless sex is something that only these people I mentioned can do. Only a person so wrapped up in themselves can have sex and not want a thing to do with that person afterwards.

If I offended anyone saying this, I am sorry. But I know people. I can feel them. And I have been severly disappointed in humans lately, including myself.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Oh, hellz yeah!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Indeed...

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Respectfully, I must disagree on the subject of having hope in people, and here's why.

I've worked in Baltimore City's wastewater engineering office for 21 years. People call us or walk in when they have a sewerage back up and need to know how to abate the situation. These are desperate people. These are people who have every reason to be hysterical, after all they have shit in their basements. In spite of how tense or angry they were though, only once in those 21+ years has anyone actually referred to the sewerage in their basement as "shit," and even then they apologized because they didn't know to actually refer to it as "sewerage."

To me, this illustrates that when the chips are down, people rise to the occasion. This is why I have hope in humanity.

Does this mean that I think all people are good? No. I think that people have both the divine and diabolical in them. The trick to getting through life is to find a way to draw the divine in one's self and others out.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Someone once said, "Freedom is never free."

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Scroll down a bit. ^_^

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

This is true. I just do not understand why people are so willing to give UP the liberty/freedom our founding fathers fought so hard for... all in the name of "security" and "safety".

♥

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

Hello, and welcome to my brain! ;)

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

On the whole, I really haven't. I've been watching people "catch up" to where I was years ago (I've always been a cynic- even as a child.) Where I have changed is that most of the things I was cynical about years ago I don't think are so bad anymore. My definitions of "okay" and "not okay" are much less rigid and binary. I've come to accept and appreciate that it's not the *results* that are so distressing- it's the institutions themselves which are screwed up and need dismantling.

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

I tend to portray myself as someone that's very jaded (well I am) but there have been occasions that have challenged my own beliefs.

It's a toss up between "every man for himself" and "Destiny brings people/actions together". I tend to be a pragmatist, but then once in a while the Destiny/fate thing happens and I just sit there and say "Huh?" and shake my head for years to come. There have been things that have happened in my life that even 10 years later, I'm still shaking my head.

Well when there's time, there's always hope...

For instance when 9/11 happened - there were opportunities for everyone to really unify and get others unified behind the U.S. and I believe that the previous administration really squandered these opportunities. Is anyone ever going to get it unless we do blow ourselves off the globe?

See - that's the pragmatist talking...

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

I've become increasingly far-sighted. ;)

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

I'm calmer...have fewer assumptions (most of the time), more farsightedness now. More knowledge though has just created even more questions, lol.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

And I love the icon... :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Pragmatism is good... :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Are you happy about that?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Calm is good!

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

My perceptions change daily because the universe does.

As I grow older, I grow.

At the macro level, my world as broadened, but I couldn't tell you at the micro level if only because I'm too close to those multiple small changes.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

I like the calm. It has made my life sooooooo much easier and less stressful. :)

[amnotcute.livejournal.com]

*grin* Really..?

[rheyamorgaine.livejournal.com]

I have found as I've gotten older that things that bother me are less and less. I made a post on it the other day here (http://rheyamorgaine.livejournal.com/961736.html?mode=reply). I also find that what other people think concerns me less.

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

I was being facetious. It's actually a right royal pain in the arse!

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

Every major event in my life has brought about a greater understanding of myself. I'm not the same person I was 10, or 5 years ago, but that's a good thing.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Of course! :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Indeed, understanding is a wonderful thing :D

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

Well for one - I used to think you were intimidating...

Oh wait. ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

:P