Do you follow your instincts?

[eisanbt]

It's my opinion that instinct is often - simply knowingness. The spirit knowing rather than having to go through physical universe mechanics of thinking, rationalizing, charts and diagrams!

And when you're instincts prove incorrect? Where does that leave the place of the spirt? Does it make mistakes?

I really don't get your justificaiton for this outside of "Well its just the way it is, trust me I know." In which case I'd toss that up with the folks hammering about **** and the like.

 

[Lethalfind]

And when you're instincts prove incorrect? Where does that leave the place of the spirt? Does it make mistakes?
I really don't get your justificaiton for this outside of "Well its just the way it is, trust me I know." In which case I'd toss that up with the folks hammering about **** and the like.

I have to say that when I have a bad feeling about someone, I am usually not wrong. HOWEVER, these feelings I get aren't a prediction that someone is a serial killer, usually for some reason or another that the person will be more trouble then they are worth.

Too bad I don't get a feeling about the lottary...being RICH would be nice for a change.

 

[eisanbt]

There is nothing super-naturel about picking up on subtle cues about somebody, this is especially true for woman. I'm afraid I persoanlly don't know all the mechanics behind it, but its certainly not a soul. Ask Tori mayhap.

 

[manicmonday]

There is nothing super-naturel about picking up on subtle cues about somebody, this is especially true for woman. I'm afraid I persoanlly don't know all the mechanics behind it, but its certainly not a soul. Ask Tori mayhap.

It must be lonely not believing in anything.

 

[skategreen]

And when you're instincts prove incorrect? Where does that leave the place of the spirt? Does it make mistakes?
I really don't get your justificaiton for this outside of "Well its just the way it is, trust me I know." In which case I'd toss that up with the folks hammering about **** and the like.

Well....since I have made mistakes...(ooooooh...one or two here and there)...

and since I am a spirit....

Yeah...Spirits can make mistakes!

and....

If I could, with words alone...across an internet chat board...offer such a beyond indisputable proof that you, my dear, and all the other dears are an immortal incredible wonderful spirit - light and playful, seeking to survive and create... ... well... if I could do all that...

I'd have my own website at least.

 

[OmegaManiac]

I just used my intuition. Just now I intuitively skipped four pages of **** so I saved myself valuable minutes of wadeing through ****. I feel so much better now. Oh here's my take on intuition." First you should entertain rational thought then you should consider your gut feeling and finally you should cross reference the two and if they are not very much alike then you should continue with solution that is based on rational thought." All good serial killers know that!

 

[eisanbt]

It must be lonely not believing in anything.

Not at all, I believe in the rational world that exist around us. I am happy and have no regrets about following logic. As I stated earlier, I don't understand why this is such a scary concept to people. Why the **** would it be lonely?

Often the sentiments of misery surrounding somebody else's beliefs is a fine way of reassuring yourself of the validity of you own, wouldn't you agree?

 

[manicmonday]

Not at all, I believe in the rational world that exist around us. I am happy and have no regrets about following logic. As I stated earlier, I don't understand why this is such a scary concept to people. Why the **** would it be lonely?
Often the sentiments of misery surrounding somebody else's beliefs is a fine way of reassuring yourself of the validity of you own, wouldn't you agree?

I don't need validating my own beliefs. I don't need anyone else to believe the way I do. But I know how empty I felt without my current beliefs and thinking in that realm, yes it was lonely. If you don't think having any believes outside of your existance is lonely, great. I think you are in the minority of that though.

 

[eisanbt]

Unlike Descartes, I believe in others as well.

I'm not alone when I'm with everyone else.

Perhaps you were approaching it from a negative angle, which is to say you were feeling poorly yourself and it was reflected in your thought. This can happen to any, giving them a sad spin on something that could just as easily be good. Pessimists vs optimists eh. By changing your overall opinion you allow yourself a fresh start that can allow you to feel good without the negative sentiments of before; The old realm becomes one associated with generally bad feelings so, for happiness sake, its left behind.

This is not reasoning for belief, but reasoning for keeping a belief. I believe in reality because, as the name indicates, it is real. Bad feelings are nothing more then bad feelings, the same for the good one. This doesn't mean they hurt any less or feel any greater its just what they are. Recognition reality does not change perception, its not worth getting in any kind of a fuss over.

Surly you've been situations where you know how you preferably feel and can tell yourself that all you like, however it just doesn't happen. Life is still an experience, we being blessed with conciseness (or conversely, cursed). In either case, its our reality and how we deal with it is our own decision. When it ends it will end. There is however the potential for memory to live on, as is being studied by some off-beat scientists. If their work proves to be correct and you wish to name our collective memory our soul then feel free, just don't think it'll add anything magical to this potential fact of reality.


My appologies about the post having no sturcture to it , I'm quite hung-over right now.

 

[Kryptonite Man]

"dUJ tuVOHtaH." Klingon for "Always trust your instincts".

 

[Lethalfind]

I have had many times when I had a bad feeling about a person who I had no choice but to be around, either because we lived close or worked together, so I watched, making sure NOT too let them get close enough to do any damage should I be right. This is how I went from NOT trusting my instincts to validating them.

I tend to put people in a box based on my instincts, that way I keep myself from being harmed but I don't cut myself off from everyone.

For instance, I trust my neighbor implicitly, with my home, with my daughter anything really. We have known each other for 5 years, since I moved here. There are people who I have known longer, people with whom I have more history, more in common with etc. that I don't trust near as much as I do Marlena. When I first met her I had a good feeling about her, she extended a helping hand to me at a time when I needed it without becoming too intrusive, over time of watching her I saw I could trust her. My feeling was right.

I also used to have a friend at work, she was a wonderful girl but communication was not her strong suit. Her husband was a pot smoker to the point where he allowed his habit to threaten his ability to take care of his family. In the field in which he works, most places require drug testing, I watched as he left the majority of the work on his wife's shoulders because of this AND I watched as she allowed it too happen without saying a word to him. She was paying the bills, the primary bread winner, the primary caregiver for their child, he would not do a thing with the child, instead dropping the child off at his Mothers home, AND she went too school while doing all this, all the while being a doormat for her husband. My first instinct, when I first sat and talked with her when we were training was that while she was a nice person, she was a doormat and someone I could not fully trust because of this. In the end I was proven right. It was imposible to have a relationship with this person unless you wanted to live as a doormat to her husband like she evidently wanted to. Not my bag, thanks...

 

[eisanbt]

Makes enough sense not to trust a doormat; Even if they are good themselves, its a terrible person thats in control of them. Don't blame the puppet kind of scenerio.

 

[builder]

Makes enough sense not to trust a doormat; Even if they are good themselves, its a terrible person thats in control of them. Don't blame the puppet kind of scenerio.

Too true.

I get "flashes" all the time. Like I'm about to do something on the job, and I get a flash that I should stop and check it out again. It saves me heaps in unnecessary ****-ups. I follow these flashes, and the times when I'm wrong do not even come close to outweighing the times when the flash is right.

I listen to them. And act on them. If they are not intuitive thought, then some ******* fairy godmother knows her **** when it comes to construction work, and she gets in my ear and gives me a "flash" with her magic wand. I like it.

 

[ToriAllen]

Isn't it interesting, Builder, that you chose not to vote on your own poll.

 

[builder]

Isn't it interesting, Builder, that you chose not to vote on your own poll.

I rarely vote in my own polls, Tori.

I'm seeking input.

 

[cynthiaa89]

I regret not following my gut instinct everyday. It always turns out to be right, wether it's tests or real life, it's scary...I never listen to it though.

 

[builder]

I regret not following my gut instinct everyday. It always turns out to be right, wether it's tests or real life, it's scary...I never listen to it though.

Why not? Give it a shot, and see what happens.

Sounds like you've got ****-all to lose by trying.

 

[cynthiaa89]

Because the 1 out of 100 times I choose to go with my gut, that's the one time it is EXTREMELY wrong. I'd hate for people to see through my intelligent facade and find out I'm actually legally retarded.

What a shame that would be.

 

[hugo]

Because the 1 out of 100 times I choose to go with my gut, that's the one time it is EXTREMELY wrong. I'd hate for people to see through my intelligent facade and find out I'm actually legally retarded.
What a shame that would be.

Life's tough, even tougher when you are retarded. Unless you are so retarded ya never have to work. Quarky is an example of that level of retardedness.

 

[manicmonday]

Because the 1 out of 100 times I choose to go with my gut, that's the one time it is EXTREMELY wrong. I'd hate for people to see through my intelligent facade and find out I'm actually legally retarded.
What a shame that would be.

Yawwwwwwwwwn, teen angst is so hard