Over-Confidence

And you say you’re a little unclear about it all. well honestly no one knows for certain. it’s all postulation. i personally subscribe to the idea of a cosmic consciousness. That i am just one aperture through which it is living, my ego the product of my current experience and brain chemistry. I’m not saying this is correct, only that i as an individual have come upon this answer through meditation and personal spiritual experiences that hold only meaning to me.

Some people just want to watch the world burn! @geryon89, I see what you mean, but there’s also good to note that saying something and expecting that everyone would agree with you is plain fucking stupid since it’s impossible. That’s why there are discussions to see who agrees and who doesn’t and why not. That’s the journey, to get to know how people think so we get to know how we think and have more confidence about it. The more experience you have with people’s beliefs the more you’re going to be qualified to choose if they should be in your circle. Nothing but logic.

Over-confidence though is something I don’t see on HE, except on rare occasions where people still have a brain in their head for seeing things from a different point of view. People really don’t have all the answers, but if you are even having a debate with them you could be sure that they have the answers that are important for them.

“am i the only one who feels this way?”

How you feel is a completely different topic. :)

I agree, it just doesn’t bother me. What you are complaining about is the same old shit you have faced and will continue to face, no organization that you will ever join has completely over come this. Any bulk of knowledge, no matter how good its intent, serves only to cloud the distinction between righteousness and judgementality. To simply be aware of that often is not enough but one has to realize the disposability of knowledge to achieve impartiality.
People are apparently over confident because they cannot afford not to be, their entire structure of sensibility depends upon their understanding, and to remove any stone threatens “Jenga”. However, any structure that has not stood to the storm is not proven dependable, if a person has the confidence in their belief then they should submit it to scrutiny, and if they are not confident in it then that is all the more reason to submit it to scrutiny.
I think that in most cases you over-estimate their confidence, they are stating their case only to see if anyone can offer something to convince them they are living a lie, the same fear we all have, the more fundamental it is to them the more they accentuate its importance, importance to them. But this is not over confidence it is defensive in nature. But they offer the opinion because if it is wrong they want to know, especially the more fundamental it is to their structure of sensibility.

You speak the truth. I find myself saying the phrase, again and again, that everyone is at a different point on their way to enlightenment, and so to judge others based on their position is to show how far YOU have left to travel.

I can only hope that the tone of HE supports itself through the rising number of users, or that someone can come up with a way of aiding in keeping the nature of everyone’s journey in mind while using the HE.

90% of people in the world walk around with a naggy little (sometimes very loud) whisper in the back of their heads criticising and negatively judging every action they put forward in the day.

The other 10% are super confident, really coool looking and appear most at ease with themselves.
…And those people are on Cocaine.

Daniel Simonsen -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzgTM6ArASI

Like the inquisitive ambivalence of you questioning Ian.
All we can do is make judgements for ourselves, and share them as politely as humanly possible.
We are all on a personal and yet paradoxically collective Journey through life.

Right and wrong, yes and no, yah or nay?
At the moment I’m seeing things through a lens of ‘states of difference’

Hope you enjoy Mr. Simonsen :)