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Do you really not understand some concepts or are you just a personality type that does not think of things or unable to discuss them philosophically?
Did you really not understand that there is a 'cost' (consequence) to every action?
If, for instance, you hit a friend the cost may be losing the friendship...if you eat out every day the cost (consequence) might be ruining your budget.....if you decide to try to impress your boss by working longer, the 'cost' will be giving up time to watch football.
If you understood those things before age 29 you didn't 'just learn it' you just aren't the type that thinks about the underlying philosophy of life.
I think the problem with the OP is being way too inwardly focused, personally.
Just get out and do good things for the sake of doing good and expect nothing in return and you will find the wisdom of life. Connect with flesh and blood people.
On one level there is a cost to every action and the examples given are for sure but some things in life are free. Freely given. There is a cost but there may be more net gain to the giver as a result of giving than net loss. I do not think such events are bound by the laws of physics.
Do you really not understand some concepts or are you just a personality type that does not think of things or unable to discuss them philosophically?
Did you really not understand that there is a 'cost' (consequence) to every action?
If, for instance, you hit a friend the cost may be losing the friendship...if you eat out every day the cost (consequence) might be ruining your budget.....if you decide to try to impress your boss by working longer, the 'cost' will be giving up time to watch football.
If you understood those things before age 29 you didn't 'just learn it' you just aren't the type that thinks about the underlying philosophy of life.
I've read enough of your posts on city-data-forum to know that you are not mentally impaired.
You're quite intelligent and i'd be surprised if you didn't know it.
There's something else going on (Aspergers or other) and at this point it should be obvious that your original question is not going to be answered to your satisfaction on this forum.
Or perhaps it already has (Aspergers) and you just need time to process that possibility and go and see someone if you are so inclined.
So, since you are an adult and i'm assuming one that can sufficiently function, perhaps it's time to make some significant connections in the "real world" and discover for yourself, with the help of an embodied (ie; not on the internet) person or persons, what it is that you need in order to feel better about yourself.
I think the problem with the OP is being way too inwardly focused, personally.
Just get out and do good things for the sake of doing good and expect nothing in return and you will find the wisdom of life. Connect with flesh and blood people.
On one level there is a cost to every action and the examples given are for sure but some things in life are free. Freely given. There is a cost but there may be more net gain to the giver as a result of giving than net loss. I do not think such events are bound by the laws of physics.
But everybody else has knowledge by default, so why not me?
I don't believe that. It is by default for most people.
I don't find myself strange to say that had I listened to a lot my parents said when I was younger I would be financially and physically better off for it. But I also would not have the husband and kids I have and love and the outlook on life I currently have. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life.
And the mistakes I have made along the way have also strenghtened me.
I LOVE this quote. Think it says an awful lot. If such wisdom was default then such statements as texdav and this quote would not be made. Your premise is incorrect.
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
I'm not "mentally equal to all others" ... i'm much more intelligent than most and much less intelligent than many.
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