Thinking as a Hobby
Essay by people • December 15, 2011 • Essay • 250 Words (1 Pages) • 2,657 Views
Summary of article, thinking as a hobby. :
Writer classifies thinking into three categories: thinking is feeling; thinking is the detection of contradictions; think is finding truth
The three categories can also be interpreted like this: to feel; to question; to find truth.
Thinking hobby is not just to feel unconsciously, but also to detect contradictions bravely and to find truth finally.
Feeling is hipocratic. People like to claim that they are thinking when are actually not. They don't want to be pointed out that they are superficial. Humans are gregarious animals and enjoys agreement as cows graze all the same way on the edge of the hill. They are warming their hands by the fire of their own prejudice.
People tend to be ruled by feeling instead of thinking. Addiction and content to the feeling stops people from thinking.
In order to justify their feeling, people claim it to be thinking.
They are irresistible to feeling or spring. People always do this unconsciously . people around me don't always claim to be thinking. They look like thinking when they are Iibrary or in a quiet classroom. It seems that only when they are in those places, it could be called thinking. Those people think in classrooms and libraries. They stop thinking out of classrooms and libraries.
The second stage of thinking is questioning. Keep asking questions on what is truth. Questioning could be fun and exciting. People are afraid to be questioned. Some objects are vagile once questioned. .........................
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