Opinions must be weighted, not counted
(I took a lot of liberties in fine-tuning this post because the original poster speaks English as a second language, so he had several grammatical issues. However, I kept the core post. -Derrick Mills)
(This week I want to begin with a few thoughts about opinions. I just put some ideas onto the table for discussion. The lack of systematization, therefore, is not a mistake but intended. -Oliver Maerk)
Our world is full of opinions. Opinions rule our lives much more than facts, even worse facts are very often neglected completely, twisted or put into shape so that they fit our worldview. In some cases, this can go so far that people lose the ability to distinguish between what is fact and what is mere opinion. This is not only true for naive people but particularly something which can be observed with intelligent contemporaries also. Even the so-called quality media and sciences are not exempted from this mental detriment. Orientation by opinion instead of by facts has become a real epidemic in our days. The good news is we are not inevitably subjected to this tendency. The individual, the free spirit, always has the opportunity to detach himself from the ordinary world and can see reality in a brighter light. He/she doesn’t have to be deceived by what everybody else is fooled by.
We live in free times and one effect to that is the view that everybody should be allowed to express himself freely and everywhere, no matter of the content or quality of what he has to say. What is forgotten is that one has the right to speak up but that there is no right to be listened to included. Everybody else has the right not to listen at all and go on with his affairs.
Another phenomenon which can be observed very often nowadays is that people don’t distinguish between different opinions any more or that they are not even able to make such a distinction at all. This comes in definite relation to the vice of relativism, be it concerning questions of moral or such of truth itself. Under these suppositions wise as well as stupid ideas can be declared equal – if everything is relative. Not only have the differences between certain opinions vanished but also the distinction between opinions and facts in general. Consequently, such conduct must lead to nihilism, if thoroughly practiced to the end.
People are especially prone to the public opinion or the published idea. (Usually, the two get mixed up with each other). This opinion is the supreme authority of our times the one by which the masses are guided. People would like to be individuals, but in fact, they are controlled and enslaved by the public opinion, more than ever before.
To get a reasonable view of different opinions, one has to find himself comfortable in the position of isolation. In the midst of the bustle of the masses, hardly anyone can arrive at rational decisions. Thus the ability to make quick decisions in any given situation is crucial for successful people; such choices are not the result of pure spontaneity. People that can make decisions fast have prepared for such circumstances for a long time have worked on their character and have finally come to the point where intuition mainly guides them. Hunch is the result of long and intensive experience and a deep “spiritualization” of a topic so that it doesn’t take much conscious thinking to make the right decisions. Intuition is unconscious knowledge which is nevertheless not arbitrary but an attribute with great direction. Every true mastery consists of intuition in whatever area of life we are dealing with.
It is evident that not all opinions can have the same weight and value but that their origin and quality are very different from each other. Personal knowledge, experiences and not the least the different motives are of great importance. Many opinions are nothing but “undigested” views and half-information coming from others; opinions that have not been turned into your own, and information you only reproduce but has not been “incorporated.”
The statements of many people are similar to the chitchat of talk-shows, but what is even worse is the fact that quite often there is no communication between individuals occurring at all. What I mean by that is “aberrated talking,” where someone is not caring for what another one is saying at all but is only waiting for the right moment to express his words. That is nothing else but a mutual monologue but has nothing to do with the understanding of one another.
I wish you a good start into the new week. -Oliver Maerk, Courtesy of Freedom, Power, and Wealth (April 18, 2016)
(You can read more of Oliver Maerk’s posts at the aforecited link. You can also pick-up his book here.)
(Disclosure: This website may be compensated for sales of products linked to.)
(This week I want to begin with a few thoughts about opinions. I just put some ideas onto the table for discussion. The lack of systematization, therefore, is not a mistake but intended. -Oliver Maerk)
Our world is full of opinions. Opinions rule our lives much more than facts, even worse facts are very often neglected completely, twisted or put into shape so that they fit our worldview. In some cases, this can go so far that people lose the ability to distinguish between what is fact and what is mere opinion. This is not only true for naive people but particularly something which can be observed with intelligent contemporaries also. Even the so-called quality media and sciences are not exempted from this mental detriment. Orientation by opinion instead of by facts has become a real epidemic in our days. The good news is we are not inevitably subjected to this tendency. The individual, the free spirit, always has the opportunity to detach himself from the ordinary world and can see reality in a brighter light. He/she doesn’t have to be deceived by what everybody else is fooled by.
We live in free times and one effect to that is the view that everybody should be allowed to express himself freely and everywhere, no matter of the content or quality of what he has to say. What is forgotten is that one has the right to speak up but that there is no right to be listened to included. Everybody else has the right not to listen at all and go on with his affairs.
Another phenomenon which can be observed very often nowadays is that people don’t distinguish between different opinions any more or that they are not even able to make such a distinction at all. This comes in definite relation to the vice of relativism, be it concerning questions of moral or such of truth itself. Under these suppositions wise as well as stupid ideas can be declared equal – if everything is relative. Not only have the differences between certain opinions vanished but also the distinction between opinions and facts in general. Consequently, such conduct must lead to nihilism, if thoroughly practiced to the end.
People are especially prone to the public opinion or the published idea. (Usually, the two get mixed up with each other). This opinion is the supreme authority of our times the one by which the masses are guided. People would like to be individuals, but in fact, they are controlled and enslaved by the public opinion, more than ever before.
To get a reasonable view of different opinions, one has to find himself comfortable in the position of isolation. In the midst of the bustle of the masses, hardly anyone can arrive at rational decisions. Thus the ability to make quick decisions in any given situation is crucial for successful people; such choices are not the result of pure spontaneity. People that can make decisions fast have prepared for such circumstances for a long time have worked on their character and have finally come to the point where intuition mainly guides them. Hunch is the result of long and intensive experience and a deep “spiritualization” of a topic so that it doesn’t take much conscious thinking to make the right decisions. Intuition is unconscious knowledge which is nevertheless not arbitrary but an attribute with great direction. Every true mastery consists of intuition in whatever area of life we are dealing with.
It is evident that not all opinions can have the same weight and value but that their origin and quality are very different from each other. Personal knowledge, experiences and not the least the different motives are of great importance. Many opinions are nothing but “undigested” views and half-information coming from others; opinions that have not been turned into your own, and information you only reproduce but has not been “incorporated.”
The statements of many people are similar to the chitchat of talk-shows, but what is even worse is the fact that quite often there is no communication between individuals occurring at all. What I mean by that is “aberrated talking,” where someone is not caring for what another one is saying at all but is only waiting for the right moment to express his words. That is nothing else but a mutual monologue but has nothing to do with the understanding of one another.
I wish you a good start into the new week. -Oliver Maerk, Courtesy of Freedom, Power, and Wealth (April 18, 2016)
(You can read more of Oliver Maerk’s posts at the aforecited link. You can also pick-up his book here.)
(Disclosure: This website may be compensated for sales of products linked to.)
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