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For the last 7 years, I’ve had a small, yellowed clipping taped at eye level on my cube. It said:
“Opinions. Estimates. Projections.
What ever happened to facts?”
Today, it felt like the end of an era when I took it down, tore it up, and threw it away. It seemed like the credo of someone younger and more naive than something to set me back on track . It’s all perceptions. It’s all opinions. It’s all estimates. There is no black. There is no white. And even if there were, you can pay an expert to prove that what you’re seeing is really a shade of grey.
So, if everything we do during the day ends up being a small part of a larger plan to push someone’s opinion on someone else, the question becomes: When you’re surrounded by a fog of opinion, what is there that’s solid enough to believe in?
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September 21st, 2005 at 12:37 pm
only yourself.
September 21st, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Hmmm…this is a very interesting post. i agree with brian. some things to practice/model/emulate: tolerance, forgiveness, acceptance, thoughtfulness, a lack of judgment, caring, sharing, and above all else, love. extend yourself, tear down your defining lines and the lines you use to define others, live and let live, be, give, and LOVE.
nothing else is real. nothing else matters. go with the flow of each day and each moment. and BURN YOUR SOAPBOX.
September 21st, 2005 at 6:21 pm
If Brian is right, others are inconsequential and QOB is wrong.
If QOB is right, the self is unimportant and Brian is wrong.
Is it the individual or the collective that is most important?
And is either something to believe in?
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:25 am
i guess i don’t agree with brian. what i agree with – and thought i was agreeing with brian about – is that you are the only thing you know to exist in exactly the way you know it to exist…
you may believe you know person A. but person A may actually be a different person than you perceive. who/how they are/act is the truth, and your perception is simply your perception. so the way to ground yourself is to remember that you’ll only know you…you cannot know anything else to be absolute. that will help you as you’re relating to people – which is important – because you can remove your judgments and defining lines and just allow for them to be them, and your perceptions to be your perceptions. this will relieve you of the pain of unmet expectations. be the best you that you can be, and allow others to simply be. just experience them, with no expectations (and keep in mind all you know about them is your perceptions). and all of this is true for ideas and inanimate objects, too, i think.
of course, who knows how i’ll feel tomorrow…
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:19 pm
What
Would
Spock
Say
?
Without individuals, any collective is nothing. There is no assimilation. Nothing is futile.
Chaos is the end.
Fear only none.
Remember, this is just one man’s opinion. Facts… They’ll cost ya. But we have to find an expert first. I’m thinking government research grant level funding might be required. To start the drift race team. And buy tires. Lots of tires.
-d—
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:23 pm
So, QOB and Brian are in agreement. We are alone.
Darryl will always have Spock.