Tag: assumptions

“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
― Marshall McLuhan

 

The largest problem with assumptions is not who they may or may not make asses out of but that their shelf life seems so limited. Most of the time we at least pay lip service to the fact that our assumptions are only hypothesis, best guesses as to the nature of reality. After all what are assumptions but the bridges we build across chasms of the unexplained? All too often tho our assumptions don’t quite fill the gap that we intend them too and we fight to defend them just knowing somehow we can make them stretch. This is a fool’s game at best. Assumptions are made to be disposable because there is always something better.
Blessings, G

 

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Confronting one's shadowConfronting One’s Shadow by G A Rosenberg

 

Argyle ShadowsArgyle Shadows by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 2 2012

Don’t make assumptions – Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
–Don Miguel Ruiz

 

Thanks to Vajra and Tammy two friends for bringing up an interesting discussion about assumptions

What assumptions do we make? Without assumptions how do we examine anything? Don’t problems arise a lot more often when we take our assumptions as facts?I would say that most of our insights into life are mainly assumptions. I guess my point is that what is any of our world views but assumptions? If Fuller was right that the universe is an asynchronoumously apprehended phenomenon than we cannot ‘get it’ all at once and some assumptions are inevitable. I value it highly when someone not only questions and tests every assumption they make but encourages the others around them to do the same. If I honestly seek to understand and integrate other views of the universe how can I resist testing any assumptions I have against those of any and all comers and testing their views against mine?
I love knowing so little, if anything for sure. It means that I have a lot to learn with never an end in sight…
Blessings, G

 

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Totemic by G A Rosenberg

 

Red Yellow Vortex by G A Rosenberg