Thursday, October 1, 2009

The world and it's outskits

Thinking about the outskirts… made me ask myself too many questions about the universe and some of the things that surround me, so while I was sitting and wondering what to write about the “outskirts” meaning something remote… I came up with this question... “How can I question something I don’t understand or not even know?” Ignorance can be a gift or a curse because I can’t even imagine something unbelievable, because everything I see or think is something real or at least possible because I know it! Everything else that may be or may exist is something I ignore that’s why it’s called an outskirt.

When we saw the picture of the levels of the world, the teacher told us that we should think of beyond our world, society, etc. Because when we get to think that big, we’ll be like amazing for just considering it, but… well I think that we should take a series of steps because now there’s people that do not even think of themselves, neither their society and so on, and.. How can we get to consider the outskirts if we don’t have a solid base? In my opinion, when I am conscious of myself, who I am and what I’m actually living, then I can go further, until actually wondering about the outskirts can be easier and even more logical.
This book tries to “slap me in the face” when Savater says that I’ve been living in my small world and that we should think beyond, of course I know I’m a little bit wrong for being so egocentric most of the time and I liked that he mentioned this because he made me thought of what a mess of world I’ve been living…I see the news, I’ve read history and many other discoveries and he made me realize that what do we actually know of ourselves?? Why do we try to explain so much and at the end get to know really nothing? Why do we attack our intellect this way?

Wondering about the outskirts made me feel very dumb for realizing that I can’t come up with something “that great” for actually consider it an outskirt… Now I know how Socrates felt when he said “I only know I know nothing”.


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  1. BernardoOctober 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM

    I think that as Gaby said, we need to be fully conscious of who we are, what we are, and how we are to even starting considering other things. I also think human atrocities have been done because of people not thinking outside their world or comfort zone, and just thinking about what is best for themselves.

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  2. miguel quinteroOctober 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM

    well compared to a world that you are part of all what you know looks like a dot in the sky but when it comes to your personal world you know the rules, the feelings and everything important for living in it. comparing the world and its outskirts literally makes us look smaller than ever and i like more knowing more than know less, maybe thats the judgement everybody does and get scared of knowing nothing about the universe.

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