[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
I didn’t see it as defeatist. She’s pointing out that there’s potential for fascination and awe everywhere, and she’s right. [/quote]
I read it as lowering ones self to look up.
Not that I don’t have heros, idols and goals.[/quote]
I read it as needing to be positioned such that you can look life and other people in the eye and really see them, rather than holding yourself above and looking down.
IMO, she’s not wrong. [/quote]
I think its important to choose whom to respect. I personally watch and learn from people who have what I want. I don’t have time or energy for jabberwockey. I don’t give a shit how an Indian wraps his turban for example. (though I support his right to do so)[/quote]
See, for me the question is WHY he does it, not how. Perhaps there is something there to fascinate or awe me, perhaps not. It’s your assumption that there couldn’t be anything of interest to you there that leaves you in a rather dull and uninspiring world, where the only people of interest are exactly like you. And really, how interesting can they be after a while?
At least, that’s what I read Debra to be saying. [/quote]
Maybe so. I tend to be pragmatic. I would be bored to death listening to an Indian tell me why he ties his turban a certain way. Possibly a character flaw?[/quote]
LOL…not why he ties it a certain way, goofy, but why he wears a turban at all. Gotta be a pain in the ass, right? People treating you weird, hair getting all smelly and gnarly (I guess? I don’t even know, that would be a question to ask if ever I talk to a turban guy, huh?). And plus, WTF is it even made of? One long piece of cloth? Are these sold someplace or you just go to the fabric store? And who obtains these things, the men themselves? Or is it a chauvinistic group and the women have to get them?
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Basically, who cares. If he’s worried about stinky hair he should be asking me about the merits of shampoo and introducing his daughter to me, so long as she’s freshly showered.
I know this illustrates your point piggy backing DebD but what does that knowledge possibly do for me and why should I be curious about it?
How David Rockafellar exists in general is interesting to me. I would be his under study for sure.
Hemingway, again, is interesting to me. Buffet though I don’t understand all of his quirks, Jim Morrison randomly… but not just any old thing.
I think a general point of interest is an important aspect of a healthy curiosity. Smelling every rose you pass will surely cause you to incidentally sniff the shit in the fertilizer too.
I don’t want to spend time sniffing shit. Which brings me back to a lack of desire to lower myself so that I can look up.