Opinions
"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
--Mark Twain
If our opinions come into conflict, that's just natural. It happens. You have every right to challenge my opinions... in fact I expect my opinions to be challenged. Truth. That's the point. Whenever my opinions are challenged I come closer to discovering truth. Whenever I hear the opinions of others, I can learn more. With as many faults as I have, I would be a far greater fool if I refused to accept any challenge to my opinions.
Case in point: The Emperor's New Clothes. Here's a guy who's opinion was never challenged. "Of course your clothes are magnificent your Majesty, who would say otherwise!" He was a fool.
As I see it, the world is built on dreams, dreams are built on opinions, opinions are built on feelings. It is wonderful to ACT and to DO, and this can be considered superficial, unless you begin to ask, "Why?" To act without purpose is pointless.
If we fail to challenge our opinions, we fail to strengthen our sense of truth and purpose. If we fail to observe the opinions of others we fail to understand our community, we fail to connect, and our action have no purpose beyond ourselves.
posted by The Niem @ 5:55 PM
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2 Comments:
Opinion...opinion...what exactly is an opinion? In my opinion, an opinion is the world as viewed by me. My opinion is my reality. It stretches and grows, weaves and dances, constantly in motion.
Perhaps one of the things I find offensive is when others forcibly try to alter my world like so much graffiti on a wall, or pollution in the air. It is reprehensible, and the result may be me, fixing my landscape all the more securely.
However, much better are the times when people allow me a glimpse of their world in motion, which is comprised of their opinion. When I see the logic and beauty there presented, I may be inclined to mold my world in the same fashion.
Don't be an opinion bulldozer, but rather an opinion performer.
Is opinion reality, a view of reality, or a statement on how the world should be, rather than how it is?
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