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Bill D BS: Things that come naturally to you (67* d) RE: BS: Things that come naturally to you 26 Aug 16


Comments were made up there ^ about logic. I took college courses in logic, but what I got out of them was some overview & comprehension of what I had been doing for years. I discovered I had a penchant/talent for sorting out the processes in thinking and reasoning. It led me to major in Philosophy so I could browse thru the history OF thinking and compare various systems & concepts and integrate my own processes.
   This is subjectively useful, but not always appreciated when I critique others about their thinking.... either in person or in forums like this. I mostly just use whatever ability I have these days to dissect the news and political remarks. No one complains when I 'yell at the TV programs'...(unless I get TOO loud).

Also, when I was in 7th grade, I got a high score in a 'spacial relationships' test, which gave me advanced placement in shop courses.... which I didn't really want back then. It took me years to realize that my natural talent was good for rearranging furniture, packing boxes & moving vans, seeing shapes in odd bits of wood and stacking... and re-stacking... all the extraneous stuff I acquired as I took up woodworking as a retirement hobby.

I'm not much of a musician, but I can hear whether someone else is in tune or has the tune wrong.... ummm... different from what was expected.

I am not sure whether it is a virtue or a flaw, but I am able to avoid internalizing most of the strife & sadness I see in the news. It keeps a line between sympathy & empathy, so that I can control MY reactions in a semi-sane way.

sheesh... didn't mean to sound so stuffy about all this, but I hate to answer that kind of question in a silly, offhand way.


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