narcimund 0 #1 February 17, 2007 * Can you tell the difference between believing you're right vs. hungering to be believed? * Can you tell the difference between believing a fact vs. believing an opinion? * Can you tell the difference between convincing vs. befuddling? Which leads me to: * Can you tell the difference between having been convinced vs. having been befuddled? First Class Citizen Twice Over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,596 #2 February 17, 2007 Can you tell the difference between being befuddled and fudding yourself senseless?Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sundevil777 102 #3 February 17, 2007 If it is possible to be befuddled, then it should be possible to be fuddled.People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nathaniel 0 #4 February 17, 2007 I know that one... could you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? a smile from a veil?My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nanook 1 #5 February 18, 2007 And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?_____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #6 February 18, 2007 Quote* Can you tell the difference between believing you're right vs. hungering to be believed? More simplified, can you tell the difference between subjective belief and objective truth? What I believe or what you believe subkectively ain't nevessarily the truth. I believe that, considering my struggle from a childhood in section 8 housing to living and a learning disability to a good education, a profitable business and living in a fairly nice house that everyone in America can achieve what I have achieved. I understand that it may not be the case. You believe that in America you were treated as a second class citizen. Your subjective belief may not be objective reality, for it may be that everyone faces struggles to the same extent that you do, only different, i.e., some of us believe that a person who has had no need for a job for 13 years is by no means a second-class citizen! Or maybe your subjective belief IS the reality, We may never know for sure. Quote* Can you tell the difference between believing a fact vs. believing an opinion? Another good question is, "can you tell the difference between stating a fact and stating an opinion?" In my opinion, it is easier to believe an opinion is a fact when the person stating it staes the opinion as a fact. Which is worse? Quote* Can you tell the difference between convincing vs. befuddling? Actually, I cannot. I belief that the dynamics of human interaction are that people trying to convince each other of contrary points tend to put up a defensive wall - studies suggest that the ability to reason is shut down as the efforts at maintaining their positions lead them to defend at all costs. Trying to convince a person necessarily leads to befuddlement, because reasoining on both sides has a endency to fall by the wayside while defending the point and paying no heed to the logic or reasoning in support of the point. Quote* Can you tell the difference between having been convinced vs. having been befuddled? Depends on the timing. One may be convinced after withdrawing from the argument and thinking for a couple of hours. But it is rarely seen in human activity that a person is convinced by a person trying to convince. I convince more people by not trying to convince them. I honestly should try to do it more often. Usually, I am just befuddled. Or, I befuddle the other person. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #7 February 18, 2007 ... And did you exchange your walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage. Now... Falling down, through the clouds, Memories come rushing up to meet me now. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
