Wouldn't mind, only the reason I got the learning bug was because I was the only memeber of my family denied a basic education. My parents took me out of school to work ages 15.
I had to hitch hike up 93 miles each way in the winter, 3 nights a week, to go to night school, and had to pay for it myself, when I was 18 and working.
So true, even though I have been slated most of my life for learning every aspect of everything I encounter , if I can, or have time. The more I learn the more possibilities there are. No way to make up my mind whent he world authorities haven't even done that on any subject, scientific or otherwise.
The day I start to think I definitively know something, is the day I lie down and die. Until then, all things are a possibility, including the premise that all things are possible.
Yeah saw that. Often like some of what I read there too. You know me though. Take all with a pinch of salt. Believe in the possibility of everything, and nothing, all at the same time.
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;”
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing, that he is a proper judge of it”
Oscar Wilde
"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
It is difficult seeing people hurt, and watching them express it, or try to. When, what, and how much of ourselves to share to try to make things right requires great judgement.....
I judge all the time. I think it it normal and natural to compare and contrast all you see and hear and interact with.
There would be no opinions without judgement, and weighing things in the balance, nor would there be, without judging what we think we know, against what we hear, or experience, or see.
Judgement is about comparisons I think, positive and negative.
“Everything that irritates us about others, can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Gustav Jung
I figure I'd have covered many aspects of society and have a diversity of interests too, because all of these people have lived very real and not always very pleasant lives, so the evening would never get boring, and Willie or Kris could always sing a little, and Robin and Whoopie tell jokes to lighten the mood now and again.
My son has known his girlfriend for over a year and she has still not been able to come to visit Ireland.
Ukranian women are among the most beautiful, best educated, sociable, hard-working, cultured women on the planet. Any country would be lucky to have them.
Nothing condescending or sarcastic about my remarks. They are just straight up honest opinions.
You obviously have some bee in your bonnet about me and my remarks, which got your hackles up, even got way under your skin, but since you haven't a clue about me, I really don't give a damn what you think.
Now comment away all you like, disparage my character all you like, and be as small as you really are, I won't answer. You are just showing yourself up for the woman hater you really are......
She's new. Maybe we need to go easy on her and give her time to build up to where others are.........Changing beliefs rarely happen overnight, and usually require a lot more education than people who make those kind of statements have...........
You misunderstood. The child does not have dual citizenship. It is denied Irish citizenship. All immigrant children born here have to go back to their original countries, unless their parents fit the regualtions for application as, and are accepted as, citizens. Inorde to dot hat they also have to have guaranteed work for a certain number of years etc... The list in endless.
In fact many children of immigrants from eastern europe have had to go back, due to the recession, and no work contracts being renewed. Some of their children were born here 10 or more years ago and now have to live in Poland etc......
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RE: The FreeThinker
Night Trish. Sleep sweet.