Ignorance

kingsley1929 · Post by **kingsley1929** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:59 pm

There is but one fundamental source of all evils, one common cause for all sorrows, one substratum for all misery in the world and that is IGNORANCE. Ignorance appearing in all shapes and different forms but all stemming from from the deepest root.THE IGNORANCE OF ONES OWN SELF.

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:50 pm

I agree so completely I'll add that understanding both your light and dark sides is important in eliminating suffering. Denial/fear of any aspect of self knowledge makes for trouble.

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:01 pm

koan;1387086 wrote: I agree so completely I'll add that understanding both your light and dark sides is important in eliminating suffering. Denial/fear of any aspect of self knowledge makes for trouble.

I'll second that

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:22 pm

In which culture are we ingorant of oneself? It would have to differ across the board. Each culture has a different way of defining itself and indeed it's individuals, and individualistic ideas

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:29 pm

I'd say all of them and separating oneself from their culture is integral to self knowledge.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:31 pm

I think that's impossible. YOu'd have to wake up from a coma with amnesia around the age of thirty

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:37 pm

It's an arduous task but not impossible. Some people have managed to completely detach from reality so I think attaching to it ought to be just as possible.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:40 pm

Hmmm I shall ponder that further for a bit.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:58 am

I have a headache...............

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:47 am

I think there is a difference between what should be two working definitions of "ignorance".

Ignorance of human empathy is the far greater "evil" than to simply not know how to install a toilet or a transplanted heart, both of which can be accorded to us by another...

kingsley1929 · Post by **kingsley1929** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:41 am

Fuzz, the ignorance of one selfthat should answer that.

kingsley1929 · Post by **kingsley1929** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:45 am

You are happy Bruv, that's the main thing.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:44 am

What exactly Is Ignorance.

Ignorance Is usually limited to those pseudo beings who think that If others do not share their Interests, then they are Ignorant when In fact, It Is the psuedo being who Is the Ignorant.

As an example, I have a young lad as a neighbour who wouldn't win any literary prizes and struggles to string a sentence together but Is he Ignorant ? I don't think so, not when half of the village queues up for his advice when their car needs repairing.

The view that others are Ignorant Is only In the eye of the psuedo arrogant who believes their pseudo Identity Is somehow superior when truth be known, the 'Ignorant' are laughing at them for their Ignorance.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:20 am

kingsley1929;1387168 wrote: You are happy Bruv, that's the main thing.

Are you a soothsayer ?

I have just posted 'I am happy' but you posted this several hours before..........strange.

No one has mentioned contentment yet.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:32 am

Bruv;1387176 wrote: Are you a soothsayer ?

I have just posted 'I am happy' but you posted this several hours before..........strange.

No one has mentioned contentment yet.
You had written that you were happy In another of his threads prior to this one..... Doh !!!!

kingsley1929 · Post by **kingsley1929** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:35 pm

Re: What exactly is ignorance.

Oscar, I do not consider your mechanic friend as ignorant. He is not weighed down with desires,attachments, greed, hatred, anger etc. He just does his job. Probably closer to reality than most of us.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:58 am

kingsley1929;1387249 wrote: Re: What exactly is ignorance.

Oscar, I do not consider your mechanic friend as ignorant. He is not weighed down with desires,attachments, greed, hatred, anger etc. He just does his job. Probably closer to reality than most of us. You're right there.

Only the arrogant believe they are superior.