tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post3002744569131192703..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: "Great minds discuss ideas . . . "Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-79004739519564126672014-05-09T06:01:51.782-08:002014-05-09T06:01:51.782-08:00Shouldnt it be great minds put their ideas to acti...Shouldnt it be great minds put their ideas to action ? If one would sit there and talk about ideas all day theyre not doing shit for anybody. So you are alll telling me that Jesus Christ was a small minded person in the eyes of Eleanor Roosevelt ?? She didnt do shit for this world compared to him. And also what abouy Ghandi ???? Actions based solely on his care and devotion for the people. You all seem to put yourself Iin a category immediatley. This is such a biased quote its ridiculous !! Our number one problem as a society now a days is the fact everyone wants to live independently but we are not meant to. Everyone looks out for themselves first... Ghandi and Jesus Christ are perfect examples of great minded people. Dont ever call someone small minded... because their one idea they have, could just be the icing on the cake. Ants dont work alone, they live as a colony. We do also but we fight with each othef, kill each other, steal from each other, all to make sure we personally survive. Not thinking once that our "ideas" could negatively affect the colony as a whole. Its pretty pathetic for us humans to take life lessons from ants. But thats exactly where we have put ourselves. A bunch of needy independent unintelligent disgraces to mankind. Smarten up and lets out our ideas to action for once !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-65580239323319659162014-03-16T11:33:52.243-08:002014-03-16T11:33:52.243-08:00Joseph, I think you clarified a couple of importan...Joseph, I think you clarified a couple of important points here - without prejudice and the idea of learning. If one talks simply about events - say football - or people - how they dress or act - with bias and without learning, then that probably is a lesser mind. But if one talks about the ideas that give events and people meaning then one can both talk about events and people AND ideas. Thanks for the comment. And a belated thanks to Ropi and Tea. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-18349918336209819152014-03-16T07:52:48.024-08:002014-03-16T07:52:48.024-08:00To me,
Great minds discuss ideas = those who stud...To me, <br />Great minds discuss ideas = those who study things without prejudice. They study from whatever source, whether it is negative or positive, without listening to only one side of the story. At the end of the day, after a careful research, he/she will come with balance conclusion. Ideas are like intelligence; the more knowledge he/she has, the more he/she should become humble. One must not be prejudice about any knowledge because knowledge is POWER. When you reach to this stage, you see possibilities. We go library and we google about one particular thing, it can be anything. When you read that one particular thing and found an answer from A, for instance. The A says this and that, and then you found another one who talks almost about the same thing as the A did, then you found another, bla..bla bla. You compiled them together, but you are NOT going to swallow it all. You do research further on, until you found what the OPPOSITE are saying/talking, that would be B. The B says this and that, bla bla bla, entirely contra to those in A. You study A & B, and you do research without being bias. THAT is one of an example of a Great Mind; the willingness to know, to find and to learn, and he/she may apply it or convert into it based on his/her study & research once he/she knows that it is better, has no flaws, fabricated or contradiction. <br /><br />Average Mind discuss Events = are those who talks about it's own surroundings; the ambiance or the current situation. What people do and be, generally about things; from solid to something we cannot touch and see, more like fiction, desires or an issue.<br /><br />Small Mind discuss People = Mainly gossips, not only about people but also listening to the people and take to an account. They look at people and what people do, and from here they define these people and make a conclusion. They study people and believe what the people of their surroundings do is TRUE (or the Truth). These small minds are imbalance; they do not know where they are; they can be lost as they do not have nothing to stand on. They are imbecile and a closed minded. Their vision is what makes them to understand; meaning they don't bother to RESEARCH. These minds is bias, is prejudice and is actually, one who believes that "a wet thread can be straightened". As an example, they believe in something, then they hold on to it since they look around, their ambiance that everyone else is doing it and they believe it is true (or Truth). They can often be called as followers; these minds are not believers, and they will grasp and HOLD to what they believe even though by the fact they have been proven wrong. They can get angry easily too and they would do anything to "straightened a wet thread", because they believe they can do it. Lastly, small minds are not humble; they are stubborn and big headed.<br /><br />Nevertheless, small minds has limits too, when great minds will always find a way to make them THINK again, not only logically but something that makes SENSE. When his/her heart is open to this, he/she know that he/she applies this, it would be better. much better as a matter of fact. They know now they should study and do research more, so that prejudice and being bias will burn inside them. They will believe now that words of mouth from people is not enough. If they listen people from left, they should also listen people from the right; knowing both is better. Yet small minds will understand and learn that they have to be Great Minds, in order to be able to obtain facts from VALID SOURCE. Example, small minds will ask a tourist from Italy about places in China; whereas great minds will ask a Chinese to know about places in China. <br /><br />Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-64145566192852909702011-05-15T10:44:03.366-08:002011-05-15T10:44:03.366-08:00I just wrote something and it got lost in cyberspa...I just wrote something and it got lost in cyberspace! Argh!<br /><br />Attitude/intent is everything and I think this is what Mrs. Roosevelt was suggesting.<br /><br />We could say, "Great athletes play for the love of the game and play to win, whether they win or lose! Mediocre athletes play to win. Small minded athletes play to win at all costs." You would immediately understand that there are great athletes who never lose sight of what matters, no matter how much money/adulation is involved. If someone loses sight for a bit and acts small minded, it doesn’t mean they are always small minded. . . just as someone who is small minded who plays at looking great for a bit doesn’t mean he is really great. It’s the overall performance that matters.<br /><br />You could apply this to politicians. . . “Great politicians are really there for the people and what is best for everyone (including the disenfranchised.) Average politicians do it only for the votes. Typical politicians do it to get re-elected.” (I am really turned off on politics, so I am a bad person to come up with this one. You could do better, I am sure!)<br /><br />You cannot discuss ideas and plans without data which tends to include people, but is the data simply data, or is it juicy gossip? Someone like Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Sanger would see teen pregnancies as a tragedy and in need of serious brain grease to deal with, in the same light as the daughter of a prominent politician getting knocked up as a tragedy, but proof that it can happen to EVERYONE. To many others with whom ER rubbed elbows, teenaged pregnancies were a problem for the little people and the daughter of a prominent politician getting pregnant was a source for smirks and a trip to a distant relative’s house for six months. It is possible to change the size of one's mind-- one can change. <br /><br />I think that attitude/intent is what is behind the thoughts and determines the size of the mind.Tea N. Crumpethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399889311375477109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-55570281025005638222011-05-15T05:46:50.382-08:002011-05-15T05:46:50.382-08:00I tend to discuss both ideas and events. I don'...I tend to discuss both ideas and events. I don't like gossiing about people or saying that XY is stupid (although I may think so), because I shall be wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com