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Post by Delta Dawn on May 3, 2016 6:34:24 GMT
I found some sort of Angel Cards in my bedroom today. They have to be 20 years old or older. Why???
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 3, 2016 6:35:49 GMT
Jeez. 5 pages because you eat at MacDonalds. Hang on, your new age credentials have taken a bit of a battering with that admission, unless they have suddenly started making lentil burgers. I haven't had McDonalds in years. And I'm keeping it that way. Maybe, but you went inside one, which isn't terribly new age, neither is having a boyfriend who eats there. Maybe the moon was in conjunction with Uranus.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on May 3, 2016 6:47:23 GMT
I haven't had McDonalds in years. And I'm keeping it that way. Maybe, but you went inside one, which isn't terribly new age, neither is having a boyfriend who eats there. Maybe the moon was in conjunction with Uranus. I didn't go inside one. The times I went inside one was when we were out of spoons when I worked at the gas station next door. That was over a year ago. The cashier that gave my boyfriend the stickers was working in a grocery store, not McDonalds. The moon is semi-sextiling Uranus. It will conjunct it in on Thursday. This has to do with Mercury because it's in retrograde so there's influence with miscommunication.
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 3, 2016 7:05:31 GMT
Maybe, but you went inside one, which isn't terribly new age, neither is having a boyfriend who eats there. Maybe the moon was in conjunction with Uranus. I didn't go inside one. The times I went inside one was when we were out of spoons when I worked at the gas station next door. That was over a year ago. The cashier that gave my boyfriend the stickers was working in a grocery store, not McDonalds. The moon is semi-sextiling Uranus. It will conjunct it in on Thursday. This has to do with Mercury because it's in retrograde so there's influence with miscommunication. Do you cut words out of a magazine, throw them up in the air and then type them here in the order in which they fall?
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Post by mymindseyedpea on May 3, 2016 7:24:49 GMT
I didn't go inside one. The times I went inside one was when we were out of spoons when I worked at the gas station next door. That was over a year ago. The cashier that gave my boyfriend the stickers was working in a grocery store, not McDonalds. The moon is semi-sextiling Uranus. It will conjunct it in on Thursday. This has to do with Mercury because it's in retrograde so there's influence with miscommunication. Do you cut words out of a magazine, throw them up in the air and then type them here in the order in which they fall? No, I'm trying to stay in the logical vibe with my words here. They just don't flow as well that way though.
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Post by gar on May 3, 2016 8:13:36 GMT
mymindseyedpea - ow do you get on with friends, casual acquaintances, family and work colleagues? Do you find you have to adapt your conversation because obviously you can't have deep and meaningful dialogue all the time. Do you find that sort of everyday conversation hard?
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Post by mymindseyedpea on May 3, 2016 8:41:41 GMT
mymindseyedpea - ow do you get on with friends, casual acquaintances, family and work colleagues? Do you find you have to adapt your conversation because obviously you can't have deep and meaningful dialogue all the time. Do you find that sort of everyday conversation hard? Yeah, I call it small talk and I do it even though it's uncomfortable and boring for me. It's like I can feel like they don't care about it either or something. Boyfriend and I met up with an old co worker of his for lunch. Before we got our table, boyfriend went to use the restroom leaving me alone with his friend. His friend asked me things like if I have ever been here before, if we still live in the area. I know he was just trying to be friendly. But I would give him one word answers. Close - ended too. Anyway when boyfriend came back and we got our table, it was mostly him and his friend talking while I just listened. At times I would chime in quietly about something. Sometimes they would hear me and other times they wouldn't. Then his friend mentioned that it was interesting that he recognized another former coworker driving by one day when he was on the road whom he hadn't seen in a year or so. ( we will call him Steve ) And then my boyfriend calls his friend on the phone a couple days later and mentions how Steve got a promotion. ( or something that sticks out ) So his friend while at the table said: "I just couldn't let go how odd that was that I see Steve driving by, and then gets mentioned on the phone later on." Boyfriend could feel it coming. My eyes lit up and I burst out of my shell and said: "synchronicity!" After that it felt very inviting to be there and there were a few more explorative conversations that followed. ETA: I walk into my old job from time to time and talk to my former co-workers and managers. But new age stuff is invited there. ( at a gas station no less ) When I did work there my assistant manager would talk astrology with me and some clairvoyant stuff. I guess it became my rep. One regular customer would come in and ask me if I wrote any more poems about the Universe. Another regular customer who would buy scratchers was very intuitive and would know if I'm having a good or so so day. And we would get in deeper conversation at times. Then one of the guys who drives the diesel trucks would tell me about the most updated report on Coast to Coast ( which can get way out there ) (I think I've mentioned all this before) A friend I see occasionally talks about energy healing. One of the ladies who does the samples at Costco and a local grocery store I used to work at talks about astrology with me. I think, of all the people I converse with on a daily basis, only my next door neighbor is someone I suppress my more deeper expression with. The deepest thing I have ever said to her is if she saw the sunset.
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Post by elaine on May 3, 2016 10:45:26 GMT
Oh, I thought you were referring this type of philosophy to my lack of explaining where I was coming from with my post. This sounds like if the explanation one has for a theory has a lot of loopholes then it can be more falsified than if it didn't? Yes I am into philosophy. I love exploring being philosophical. I see it like an avenue to explore and expand in wisdom. I wrote a whole thing about why anything beyond the physical cannot be proved on whether it exists or not. I think you are confusing assumptions with loopholes - the two are not the same thing. Loopholes have nothing to do with Occam's razor. Falsifiability is a good thing, not a bad thing. That is how you are able to test whether your explanation for something (the cashier's behavior in your example) has merit or not. So having the fewest assumptions means that the simplest explanations are also falsifiable. You can test/ask questions that can be answered regarding whether the game is ending soon, and whether the ending date influenced the cashier's behavior. (Most parsimonious/simplest explanation) You can't test/ask questions as to whether there was a sense of gratitude your boyfriend was exuding which caused the cashier to suddenly find your boyfriend attractive and therefore giving him a handful of game pieces. Otherwise your explanations of interactions and the world are simply beliefs - I.e., not based on any observable, replicable, and falsifiable information.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 3, 2016 11:57:46 GMT
Couldn't it be that the cashier was just being nice? I mean, it happens without any kind of deeper thing happening. Some people are just that way-nice because that is their personality. No deeper thing going on, they treat everyone that way.
Sometimes you just gotta roll with the universe and take what comes. No real introspection needed.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 12:22:43 GMT
News flash: Most people feel that way to an extent. It's just sort of something you have to do as part of being human.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 13:17:39 GMT
Yeah, I call it small talk and I do it even though it's uncomfortable and boring for me. It's like I can feel like they don't care about it either or something. Boyfriend and I met up with an old co worker of his for lunch. Before we got our table, boyfriend went to use the restroom leaving me alone with his friend. His friend asked me things like if I have ever been here before, if we still live in the area. I know he was just trying to be friendly. But I would give him one word answers. Close - ended too. You probably came across as extremely rude, this is the way that most humans interact in awkward situations. They ask questions that no one is really interested in, I'm British so I fill silence with brilliant observations about the weather. Try having a basic human conversation with someone, you never know where it might lead.
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Post by nurseypants on May 3, 2016 13:41:50 GMT
It seems like you are a bit of a dilettante. You are exploring these ideas, concepts, etc without any real framework. You might find some benefit in taking an introductory philosophy class at a local community college. As others have pointed out, you can't decide what words mean based out how they feel to you.
I would also point out that no matter what metaphysical ideas one might carry around, if they are hindering your employment or relationships, you might have a mental illness that is manifesting itself in this way. It might be worth getting checked out.
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Post by flute4peace on May 3, 2016 16:11:35 GMT
I just had a thought. Might take a bit of explanation so hang with me.
My daughter has synesthesia, which is a melding of the senses. It sounds sort of hokey at first, but is actually fascinating, and so much "her". Hers is mostly color-related, but other people with it have different primary senses. Her mind "interprets" things in more than one sense. Different letters are seen in different colors (kind of like those little alphabet fridge magnets we had when we were kids). Even different words have colors. Songs/music are also colors (example - we were talking about her dance solo & I suggested a specific song that I thought would go with a certain costume - she reacted strongly & said "No, Mom, that song is mauve." When we were shopping for a dress for her to wear to my sister's wedding, I absolutely loved one but she nixed it because my sister's wedding is not that color. People also are colors (I'm yellow). She also has issues with random patterns (such as floor tiles that don't "make sense"). They literally hurt her brain.
Yes I know it sounds crazy, but it's a real, scientifically documented thing. Even when she was little she would say "that lady's orange" and we would just laugh it off as over-active imagination, but when she was in jr hi it was covered in her science textbook and she came home astounded that she had learned it wasn't something everyone did/had. There are several famous people who have it - her favorite is Billy Joel. We had never heard of it before, but once we knew what it was, it made perfect sense. She is sort of an old soul, but is definitely NOT crazy. She's a regular, normal kid; this is just a part of her.
All of that to say, from some of the things the O/P has said in this & other threads, I wonder if there's a similar thing with words/expression/interpretation that could be going on, here. It would make a lot of sense out of what the rest of us aren't able to make sense of.
Does that make sense? (ha - pun intended) Something to at least consider.
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Post by creativegirl on May 3, 2016 17:00:16 GMT
So my daughter has really been into the children's author Sandra Boynton and her music lately. She has a song sung by Meryl Streep called "Nobody Understands Me" and now it's stuck in my head...
Nobody understands me, although I wish they would. Nobody understands me. I hate being misunderstood.
Nobody understands me, no matter how I try. Nobody understands me, and I can’t understand why.
When I think of all the glorble snop I’ve tried so hard to explain! They all look amused, or a little confused. Why can’t they see what I mean? (It’s very snooffly.) Nobody understands me, though memmily blitt each day. Nobody understands me, but I guess zooglobble that way.
How can I make you understand? How can I make you see? Why does my queckery biffle you so? Where will this ezzleboo dornut go?
What do explectionary inuews know? When will you yuddle for me?
Nobody beezifies me. Nobody febbin ud. Kibblezy deen voo nizee! I hate being misunderstood.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 17:15:59 GMT
Why does my queckery biffle you so? The queckery in this thread has certainly biffled me!
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Post by huskergal on May 3, 2016 17:39:13 GMT
I am definitely in agreement that one should smoke a doobie before reading this thread.
McDonalds Monopoly cards Six pages long Bullocks!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 17:41:06 GMT
Why does my queckery biffle you so? The queckery in this thread has certainly biffled me! Febbin ud.
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Post by gar on May 3, 2016 20:57:13 GMT
I am definitely in agreement that one should smoke a doobie before reading this thread. McDonalds Monopoly cards Six pages long Bullocks! Bullocks or bollocks?
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Post by mymindseyedpea on May 3, 2016 22:10:35 GMT
I just had a thought. Might take a bit of explanation so hang with me.
My daughter has synesthesia, which is a melding of the senses. It sounds sort of hokey at first, but is actually fascinating, and so much "her". Hers is mostly color-related, but other people with it have different primary senses. Her mind "interprets" things in more than one sense. Different letters are seen in different colors (kind of like those little alphabet fridge magnets we had when we were kids). Even different words have colors. Songs/music are also colors (example - we were talking about her dance solo & I suggested a specific song that I thought would go with a certain costume - she reacted strongly & said "No, Mom, that song is mauve." When we were shopping for a dress for her to wear to my sister's wedding, I absolutely loved one but she nixed it because my sister's wedding is not that color. People also are colors (I'm yellow). She also has issues with random patterns (such as floor tiles that don't "make sense"). They literally hurt her brain.
Yes I know it sounds crazy, but it's a real, scientifically documented thing. Even when she was little she would say "that lady's orange" and we would just laugh it off as over-active imagination, but when she was in jr hi it was covered in her science textbook and she came home astounded that she had learned it wasn't something everyone did/had. There are several famous people who have it - her favorite is Billy Joel. We had never heard of it before, but once we knew what it was, it made perfect sense. She is sort of an old soul, but is definitely NOT crazy. She's a regular, normal kid; this is just a part of her.
All of that to say, from some of the things the O/P has said in this & other threads, I wonder if there's a similar thing with words/expression/interpretation that could be going on, here. It would make a lot of sense out of what the rest of us aren't able to make sense of.
Does that make sense? (ha - pun intended) Something to at least consider. I think I have heard of that before. So let me explore that: I don't taste, smell or hear colors. Because when I think of how red would taste, it instantly brings me to a red food like ketchup, or smell brings me to a red rose, or hearing red brings me to something that's red making sounds like a siren on a police car. I can feel colors. But I think everyone can do that, whether it's consciously or subconsciously. I don't sense sounds either ( other than hearing of course ) but I feel sounds. ( again I think that's an everyone thing ) I can smell words though, if they are about a word that does have a smell to it. Like for instance: someone just mentioned in detail about a jigsaw puzzle. And I took in what she was describing, and now I can literally smell that aroma of wood of a jigsaw puzzle. ( the ones that little kids fit in the shaped holes with the correct pieces.) But I don't think that has to do with association. And even though I know I'm not physically smelling a puzzle because one is not around me to smell, I still enjoy the experience. ( it brings me back to childhood ) And I don't know if this is known as a Synesthesia experience but I remember ever since I was a kid I would often explore associating one thing I was experiencing to another thing I was experiencing. For example: in 3rd grade when we had our science books open to a salamander and our teacher was reading about it to us, I was associating her voice to the picture of the salamander. Or if I was sitting in the car listening to a song and looking at some building, I would associate the song to the building. But these associations can't be explained in words. I guess it's more of a feeling association and a unification of sound and sight. And it's only in the moment. I don't keep the same association with the salamander to my teacher's voice or remember the song I was hearing when I look at that same building. I do stick to the association when I look at something that brings a song up in my head. I think it's been a while since that has been experienced. I sometimes associate people's name to sounds. I think my mom actually does the same thing. There's a certain way she says her cat's name to her cat all the time. And she's not calling her when she does it. I think she's doing it without even being aware she is or that she's not intentionally doing it. When I see letters or numbers I do feel that they resonate a specific color. I don't know if I automatically do it though. When I looked up this Synesthesia, there was a test about number and color association. But it sounded like anyone can do these associations if they focus on it. So maybe the not as common is the automatic association? The test said to put what colors you associate with numbers on day 1, then a week or something later to do it again, and then later do it again to see if they all match up. If they do then you passed the test. If they didn't then you didn't pass with experiencing Synesthesia. On something I read it said the majority of those who experience Synesthesia ( and yes I'm using the word experience all the time for a reason ) see "A" as red. I do too, but that's the first color of the rainbow, so maybe that has something to do with it. I see "B" in orange and "C" in yellow and so on. I see "G" in green ( G starts with Green though ) "H" I see as orange... Maybe I am associating it to fire ( H for hot ) "I" is blue ( Indigo ) J is green ( Jungle green ) K is a cooler color like a purple or blue. ( maybe for King which could be royalty and that's known as purple ) ( the word "Keep" I see as blue ) L is purple ( lavender ) I won't do anymore, I was just checking to see if I could see a pattern. It also said most see "Tuesday" as orange. I do too, and I see "T" as orange ( tangerine ) But maybe most associate Tuesday with being the 2nd day of the week. ( I know it can also be known as the 3rd ) And orange is the 2nd color of the rainbow so maybe that's another pattern. Well those are my thoughts.
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Post by MorningPerson on May 3, 2016 22:23:13 GMT
People. We are SO being punk'd.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 3, 2016 22:30:55 GMT
Is it possible to get "dumber" from reading this thread? Jesus.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on May 3, 2016 22:31:51 GMT
Otherwise your explanations of interactions and the world are simply beliefs - I.e., not based on any observable, replicable, and falsifiable information. Most of what I express are beliefs. I express how I feel and what I think. Not so much about what I learned, found evidence to, or figured out as physical truth. Hopefully when I do express the logical aspect of me it actually makes sense. But I would only know that for myself if I was to observe it. My mom will start out conversations with no foundation. She will lose the person she is talking to from the very start. If I'm there I'm able to observe it and stop my mom from going any further until I set the foundation down. For example: My mom was talking to someone about how she turned out of the parking lot and I told her not to turn out that way. And she wanted to know this person's opinion on if I was right about not going out that way. It was as if my mom thought that this person she was talking to knew what parking lot she was talking about and what exit it was. So I told the person which one it was so she would be on the same page as my mom was. But I was able to be aware of that because I was in observing mode. When I am the one talking to someone, I'm not in observing mode with what I am saying. I call it being in absorbing mode. So I feel I could possibly have done the same thing like my mom did before.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on May 3, 2016 22:33:20 GMT
FFS people do not encourage this.
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Post by M~ on May 3, 2016 22:34:18 GMT
The duality of opinion
All opinion is partial. It always treats as the whole true an aspect that seems true. But other aspects are always possible. A particular opinion is prone to wander away from its seeming-true to reveal another face of reality. Opinion harbors a residue — a marker, usually some nagging feeling like doubt or hesitancy — of what has been abstracted away in order to make opinion seem true. For belief there is focal confidence and excluded, affective doubt. In thinking, both confidence and doubt are included and made focal. In any case, opinion is a dual phenomenon — it is always only ambiguously true. This duality is often masked from the one who holds the opinion. It takes a special effort to “see” what is outside its frame.
Socrates often refers to those moments in experience where the repressed other of opinion becomes unveiled and duality revealed. The paradoxes of optical illusions provide good examples. But even our everyday experiences harbor dualities. In one passage in Republic, Book VII (523c-e), Socrates turns to an experiment that I like to call the “three-finger exercise.” Look at three fingers of your hand: specifically the pinky, ring-finger and middle-finger. Compared to the other fingers the pinky is small and the middle-finger large. This seems so-far unambiguous. But now look at the ring-finger. Is it small or large? It is either small and large, depending on which of the other fingers serves as the ground of comparison. “Large” and “small” are definite features of appearance, and yet they depend on their context, on what is proximate to them. Another favorite example of Plato’s is the one and the two: each of a pair is a one, but within the pair it is a half. Each one only brings oneness to the table, yet when combined with another one, there are emergent properties of two-ness and half-ness.
These examples may seem uninteresting, but they are special cases manifesting the ambiguity present in all opining. Usually, what appears true *seems* to be a property of the focal thing, but the property shifts when the thing is placed in different contexts. These thought experiments of Socrates demonstrate that something else is going on, that seeming depends on context. The examples Socrates gives are trivial, no doubt. However, if we turn our attention to debatable (and debated) social goods like justice and goodness, isn’t it likely that something similar is going on — that what *seems just* from our perspective, may *seem unjust* to another and vice-versa? And isn’t it also clear that the criterion of “seeming-just” is not sufficient to adjudicate between these competing visions? Could it be that we are just adroit at repressing aspects that disturb our comfortable self-assessment?
Socrates calls moments of paradoxical appearance (as in the three-finger exercise), parakletikai, “provocatives”, in that they provoke thought to one’s aid:
The experiences that do not provoke thought are those that do not at the same time issue in a contradictory perception. Those that do have that effect I set down as provocatives (parakletikai), when the perception no more manifests one thing than its contrary, alike whether its impact comes from nearby or afar. (Rep. 523b-c)
Our usual dealings with the world hide duality behind a veil of taken for granted belief. Aporia and paradox are useful for bringing thinking to bear on an issue:
“Yes, indeed,” he said, “these communications to the soul are strange and invite reconsideration.” “Naturally, then,” said I, “it is in such cases as these that the soul first summons (parakalousa) to its aid the calculating reason and tries to consider whether each of the things reported to it is one or two.” (Rep. 524b)
Thinking is the attempted adjudication between competing visions of the true. Thinking begins by summoning into focal presence the otherwise tacit aspects of opinion. The duality that haunts opinion and is avoided in belief (pistis) becomes thematic in thinking (dianoia). Perhaps Socrates has so much interest in sophists because they are expert in exploring this duality and relativity present in all opinion. (The Euthydemus is a particularly good dialogue to take as an example.) Skilled sophists are able to manipulate the seeming-true of opinion by creating the contextual conditions for their preferred seeming-true to gain force. Manufacturing opinion is particularly easy when the job is simply to reinforce the seeming-true of the vulgar, since only a patient exercise of difficult thinking is sufficient to dislodge it. The mob doesn’t think. If it did, it wouldn’t be a mob.
“Partiality” is when we privilege one aspect of this duality to the exclusion of the other. For instance, in giving reasons for a favored political policy, a partisan concentrates on the benefits of the policy to the exclusion of the costs. (Just listen to any partisan debate: one side will speak only of benefit, the other only of cost.) In evaluating our own virtue, our seeming-virtuous will be quite favorable if we contrast ourselves with the morally challenged. This is partiality. We tend to pay excessive attention to villainy, attention mirrored by the scandalizing obsessions of the press, in order to seem good to ourselves and others. Albert Camus wrote that “Each of us, in order to justify himself, relies on the other’s crimes.” There is also a bias called a “halo effect” in which a single fact or characteristic of a person or circumstance colors one’s opinion about the matter as a whole. Politicians who “look the part” have a leg up on the the one who doesn’t, even if the latter has superior political acumen. (We might also call this the Warren G. Harding effect.) Clearly, there are enormous political and moral implications at work here.
We can easily see the biases of others; we are much more blind to our own. This asymmetry creates the common-sense illusion that seeming-true is sufficient evidence for being-true. Thinking requires that we confront this bias, not just in others, but most importantly in ourselves. In order to have any possibility of overcoming the deficiencies of the seeming-true, we must account for our own self-deceptive tendencies. Transcendence of one’s opinion in favor of knowledge requires knowledge of our own biases. There is no knowledge of moral or political matters that can free itself from this demand for self-knowledge. What Plato claims we need is a “conversion” (metastrophe) away from accepting seeming-true as true and begin the slow process of liberating ourselves from our bondage to mere seeming. As Bernard Lonergan puts it, “Objectivity is the fruit of an authentic subjectivity” — i.e. a subjectivity that takes ownership of its own bias. We have to understand the chains that hold us fast before we can ever escape the prison of partiality.
FYI — One book that I have found useful for understanding the various forms of bias that plague our thinking is Rolf Dobelli’s The Art of Thinking Clearly. Most of the biases have their roots in the partiality of opinion as I have articulated above.
P.S.-not from me, from a philosophy blog.
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 3, 2016 22:58:43 GMT
Do you cut words out of a magazine, throw them up in the air and then type them here in the order in which they fall? Like a ransom note, right? Give me $20M or your dog (cat/elephant/husband/boyfriend/budgie) dies.
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Post by gar on May 3, 2016 23:00:13 GMT
People. We are SO being punk'd. I am tending to agree this point. Surely that's the only logical answer?
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 23:19:32 GMT
People. We are SO being punk'd. But we're clearly digging it, as this has gone on for 6 pages now.
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Post by J u l e e on May 3, 2016 23:30:42 GMT
People. We are SO being punk'd. I am tending to agree this point. Surely that's the only logical answer? You mean logical vibe.
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Post by elaine on May 3, 2016 23:32:32 GMT
I am tending to agree this point. Surely that's the only logical answer? You mean logical vibe. You both mean intulogical assumptive-loophole.
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Post by J u l e e on May 3, 2016 23:33:08 GMT
I just had a thought. Might take a bit of explanation so hang with me.
My daughter has synesthesia, which is a melding of the senses. It sounds sort of hokey at first, but is actually fascinating, and so much "her". Hers is mostly color-related, but other people with it have different primary senses. Her mind "interprets" things in more than one sense. Different letters are seen in different colors (kind of like those little alphabet fridge magnets we had when we were kids). Even different words have colors. Songs/music are also colors (example - we were talking about her dance solo & I suggested a specific song that I thought would go with a certain costume - she reacted strongly & said "No, Mom, that song is mauve." When we were shopping for a dress for her to wear to my sister's wedding, I absolutely loved one but she nixed it because my sister's wedding is not that color. People also are colors (I'm yellow). She also has issues with random patterns (such as floor tiles that don't "make sense"). They literally hurt her brain.
Yes I know it sounds crazy, but it's a real, scientifically documented thing. Even when she was little she would say "that lady's orange" and we would just laugh it off as over-active imagination, but when she was in jr hi it was covered in her science textbook and she came home astounded that she had learned it wasn't something everyone did/had. There are several famous people who have it - her favorite is Billy Joel. We had never heard of it before, but once we knew what it was, it made perfect sense. She is sort of an old soul, but is definitely NOT crazy. She's a regular, normal kid; this is just a part of her.
All of that to say, from some of the things the O/P has said in this & other threads, I wonder if there's a similar thing with words/expression/interpretation that could be going on, here. It would make a lot of sense out of what the rest of us aren't able to make sense of.
Does that make sense? (ha - pun intended) Something to at least consider. How old is your daughter? Has she read "A Mango Shaped Space?" by Wendy Mass?
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