Did you ever think that while we're all sitting here thinking, the people who DON'T think are out there taking action. Thats the great paradox. If don't think before you act, you risk screwing up. If you do take time to think before you act, someone else beats you to it.
Discuss
Josh Friedman on January 31, 2008, 4:25 PM
I would say that am always thinking and acting, except when I’m asleep at which point I’m doing neither
Edward C on January 31, 2008, 8:20 PM
depends on your definition of “think”
a a on February 6, 2008, 11:32 PM
I’ll have to “think” about it ;-)
Norman McDowell on February 17, 2008, 6:59 AM
This was something that just popped into my head one day. So your not supposed to read that much into it. But…
Pretty much what I was trying to say is: While philosophers and great minds do shape the world in time, they don’t really act. The first to act always seem to be the greedy, or the opportunist. America isn’t a superpower because they had the best philosophy, they are economically ahead because they are capitalist. Genghis Khan wasn’t a great thinker (at least in a philosophical stand). Napoleon has no quotes or ideals by which anyone lives by, yet they are the ones who changed the world.
The wise have no place in drastic global changes. It’s the greedy who historically make the biggest mot drastic changes.
I realize that in time absolutely it’s the genius that changes the world. Da Vinci, Aristotle, Newton, great inventors, and movement leaders have shaped humanity to what it has become today. But world changing events, wars, devastating attacks, genocide, even time periods like the inquisition or the McCarthy era, drastic rapid change has more often than not been negative and fueled by an opportunistic mind, not an enlightened one. The greedy man acts, the wise man reacts.
It’s simple, and probably not a very valid argument, but it’s a thought I had. And it made me think that while all these brilliant people on this website are talking to each other and asking questions to each other and debating on the meaning of life and where humanity should go, some power hungary idiot is making greedy decisions that kill thousands of people.
Thats about it.
Josie C on March 10, 2008, 10:37 PM
To be advantageous, it should be a matter of doing both simultaneously.
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