Knowledge is power, I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Everyone should try to better themselves in every way they can, and that should include gaining knowledge everyday, wheather it be academically or socially; simply learning things in general even. But like almost everything in life, there's a downside; being enlightened/having an inquiring mind in this case. I made a thread a while back about being cynical; this is along the same lines as that, except taking it to a wider spectrum I suppose.

In some senses, I think it depends on how you use knowledge and how willing you are to accept that the world is full of self-absorbed, undesirable, ignorant people etc, but also acknowledge the positive side of things too; the positive side of other human beings and the positive side of life in general.
Both sides of the coin, whether it be total ignorance or a huge amount of knowledge and grasp human life and the world we life in, can have negative effects IMO.

I think that the best time to be a human being is during childhood. I think that the innocence that a child has is almost a form of freedom; as good as it gets I think. The truth is, we simply need to lose this innocence as we grow older or we would get eaten alive; it's the way of the world.
I suppose the point of the thread is that you can almost become too negative about life and look at things from a sceptical point of view, or simply plant your head in the sand and become ignorant, or just use information in a positive way.

I do think that females are more judgemental and cynical than males, which may surprise some people, but at the same time everyone is guilty to some degree. In some respects, I think educated and well read people can actually be less compassionate and more narrow-minded [In some aspects] than generally uneducated people, which brings us back to my point about ''Knowing too much.''

If anyone cares to read this ramble maybe they can give an opinion of their own, lol. This is a very loose subject.

sorry if this doesnt make sense

but i beleive knowing alot makes people paranoid

sorry if this doesnt make sense

but i beleive knowing alot makes people paranoid


That's part of what I was talking about. The negative side.

i will post here tomorrow,when i can see

there are many things i would rather not know, like the girl i likes sexual history but for some reason she told me EVERYTHING. omg i dont even want to think about it

there are many things i would rather not know, like the girl i likes sexual history but for some reason she told me EVERYTHING. omg i dont even want to think about it

IT SUX WHEN A CHICK TELLS YOU SHE'S ****ED 40 GUYS AND SHES ONLY 20 HUH? :wave:

IT SUX WHEN A CHICK TELLS YOU SHE'S ****ED 40 GUYS AND SHES ONLY 20 HUH? :wave:

that's pretty common these days. most girls are like that, like addison says " by the time she's 20, she's been stabbed by 40 dudes "

Yeah. Thats why philosophers go mad. They delve into things too much.

I think i know too much about too little

"The line between genius and insanity, is measured only by success"

Try to think about just how big the universe is and just how small we are. For most people who can actually grasp the idea of attempting to measure something of this magnitude, they get head aches. ****. I have one right now because of it. :ugh:

Knowledge is power, I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Everyone should try to better themselves in every way they can, and that should include gaining knowledge everyday, wheather it be academically or socially; simply learning things in general even. But like almost everything in life, there's a downside; being enlightened/having an inquiring mind in this case. I made a thread a while back about being cynical; this is along the same lines as that, except taking it to a wider spectrum I suppose.

In some senses, I think it depends on how you use knowledge and how willing you are to accept that the world is full of self-absorbed, undesirable, ignorant people etc, but also acknowledge the positive side of things too; the positive side of other human beings and the positive side of life in general.
Both sides of the coin, whether it be total ignorance or a huge amount of knowledge and grasp human life and the world we life in, can have negative effects IMO.

I think that the best time to be a human being is during childhood. I think that the innocence that a child has is almost a form of freedom; as good as it gets I think. The truth is, we simply need to lose this innocence as we grow older or we would get eaten alive; it's the way of the world.
I suppose the point of the thread is that you can almost become too negative about life and look at things from a sceptical point of view, or simply plant your head in the sand and become ignorant, or just use information in a positive way.

I do think that females are more judgemental and cynical than males, which may surprise some people, but at the same time everyone is guilty to some degree. In some respects, I think educated and well read people can actually be less compassionate and more narrow-minded [In some aspects] than generally uneducated people, which brings us back to my point about ''Knowing too much.''

If anyone cares to read this ramble maybe they can give an opinion of their own, lol. This is a very loose subject.
what you don't know often won't hurt you or better yet, you can't worry about things if you don't know they exist. sometimes, i think i would be better off not knowing too much about certain things because then you live in fear.

for example, my sister in law is constantly going on and on about the importance of eating only organic food and how we are all poisoning ourselves. it's always something...you know?

True but then you know if you only eat organic food you wont poison yourself? So surely that doesnt really make sense.

True but then you know if you only eat organic food you wont poison yourself? So surely that doesnt really make sense.

i think the more you know about things, the more you live in fear or become stressed by that knowledge. for example, dateline was as how that regularly freaked me out on how dirty hotels room actually are - how they don;t wash the top bedspread as often as they wash sheets, how often times they use second rate mattresses that harbor all kinds of nasty things, etc. etc.
there is a never ending list of things that we could know, but sometimes ignorance is bliss about SOME things

I think you should learn as much about the world around you as possible. But I agree, in some cases ignorance is in fact bliss.

there's absolutely no way a person can know "too much". There are certainly gifted, brainiacs that can solve mathematical problems faster than most, but bet that person('s) will not know 1 million and one things that you do know. Pyschlogically, that person('s) can be so smart that the simplest of things evades thier logic reasoning. As in the case of Einstein, where he had to have someone tie his shoes! How could a Super-Brainiac, that created the Atomic device, not know how to do something so simple as tie his own shoes???? There is such a thing as when you learn something new...you forget SOMETHING you already knew...a birthday, a song, a phone number, etc. bottom line, the human being never stops learning.

In the Mob, if you know "too much"....you get whacked!!

better off not know too much.

I know too much to the point where nothing stimulates me intellectually anymore.

In a general sense, no. As stated, knowledge is power. The more you know the better off you are.

As a professional, you gotta stay ahead of the game. The second somebody else comes in who knows sumthin or how to do sumthin you don't or better than you can, you become expendable.

Personally, I dunno how perpetual learnin could ever be a bad thing.

In certain situations, it may be a liability to know more than others want you want you to cuz you could potentially expose sumthin they feel best left discreet, or left within a small circle of people. Knowledge bein power, you got a modicum of power over people, or at least to **** wit people if you know they business.