Are You Rational or Human?

I read somewhere that all rational people are not emotional.

That is like saying that all oranges do not rely on their skin. If you separate the skin from the orange what you have is two separate things. A peal and the pulp. Most people just eat the pulp.

Let us say you are a very objective and rational person. You decide to make a decision. You gather all the facts about whatever you are deciding on. Are you sure you have all the information? Are you sure you need to have all the information? Can you afford to wait for all the information?

At some point you will need to find the confidence to make that decision. And, if you are confident you have enough information you make the decision.

What is that? Did I hear you say you FEEL confident?

No matter how you cut and slice the orange, you will at some point rely on your feelings. Feelings, good or bad, are emotions. And even a rational person cannot escape them.

Rational and emotional are separated in our language but in fact the human being is a whole. We cannot separate Physical, Rational, Emotional and Spiritual. This is simply a construct of the language. A way of talking about something.

There are those who, because the words are spoken as though they are separate things, convince themselves that they are separate.

You can pretend you do not have emotions., but you cannot escape them.

Do You Have Common Sense?

Another related issue is that of common sense. In language we tend to equate this with having native intelligence.  To sense though, is to use our five senses (six if you include our sense of balance).

I also object to the use of the word common. I often hear this used by employers speaking of job applicants. As in, "He didn't have the common sense to be a clerk!" The implication is that without any training, you can hire anyone off the street who will do the job.

If that is the case, let's hire someone off the street who has some of this common sense to replace all company presidents.

Some employers will use any excuse not to train their new hires. Are we to believe then that all company presidents are rational people?

You cannot expect an untrained person to do a job, even with common sense. If you have never been exposed to a particular discipline, no matter how simple or common, you may never understand what you are expected to do.

In what sense do we mean sense? If what we actually mean is to use the senses to arrive at somewhat rational decisions, then I'd like to see the school that teaches common sense. Do we really expect everyone will have gone to that particular school?

Perhaps it can be said that the rational also lack common sense.

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Conversations with Who?

In the vein of Neale Donald Walsh's book, Conversations with God I present here a Conversation with Me? Let me warn that this is an irreverent take on an already irreverent topic. You may choose to believe that I am having a conversation with Me! or with my imagination. Either way, please do not take any of this seriously. I'm not  trying to start any more new cults.

 

Little me:  You may not believe this but  I hear a voice in my head. I think it is God speaking to me. No, wait a minute...it's..it's....Me!

Me: You're  really not that funny. After all you are an accountant.

Little me:  What you're answering me! Who are you? What to you want?

Me: I am here to guide you on your journey.

Little me:  Journey?  I didn't buy any tickets!

Me: Your Life Journey you silly moron!

Little me: Ok! If You are so smart. You tell me when you created the world.

Me: I create it every second. Every moment of your waking life is your first. I create the world and you and everyone else with all their memories intact, with every book, every piece of knowledge every mountain, every river, every blade of grass, every living being each moment you see and hear and feel and taste and smell. And you can spend a million years trying to prove otherwise. You will never disprove this fact.

Little me:  How can you say this? You're only the voice I hear when I write. In fact I was just listening to you a moment ago when I asked the question, "Do I have writers block?"

Me: And what did I tell you? I said I am thinking of writing a course called Conversations with Me. That's because I wake up every morning (I often do that) hearing a voice in my head with a lot of questions.

Little Me: Hey! Were going to confuse the reader aren't we? Shouldn't I be saying that?

Me: Like I was saying, I was wondering how I could write about the Law of Attraction with a new twist.

Little Me: I already did that. Just have a look at what I posted at http://www.themeaningisyou.com.

 And, I was too lazy to write something else so I posted at  http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gilles_Hamann.

Me: Stop interrupting!  You're supposed to just listen. Now where was I? Then I just start to write whatever comes to mind. It flows easily. Are you getting this?

Little me: I can keep up with you any time.

Me: That's what gets put down as quickly as possible with only slight editing. Oh, you can tell, can you? Well, that's me always slightly unedited.

Little me: This question and answer reminds me of an interview. I'm interviewing the great Me! This could turn out to be a great revelation.

Me: Oh stop that! You aren't listening to me. Take a lot of writing, a lot of streaming thoughts, many questions and you  could have an inspired work.

Little me: Why have you been so quiet all these many years? Why is this happening to me only now?

Me: Keep asking those questions and I'll answer them in time. I'll talk, you write. But for now this enough.

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