Comments on: Irrational vs Rational

By: luce

luce — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:36:03 +0000

When the war arrived in my home town, on my 40th birthday first bombs hit ground around my home only the mountains of love, hope and faith got me through.
I left behind everything and fled to town that I untill then I saw as picturepostcard but it was and it still is fortress.
When I was able to visit my ruined home still under occupation with me I took only my family photographs ( some of them 80 years old ). When I returned to the shelter my sister couldn’t believe I left all “necessary” back there, to thieves ( lovely dresses, shoes, cristal, etc …)
I left my books as well, my LP records, my diaries… nobody took them anyway, and by the time war was over, the fashion changed…
Some houses in this village of mine were burnt down… now tell me was it more rational to take photos or coat and boots, for me there were no choice realy.
In the end from my photoes copies are made for whoever asked.

Thank you Paulo for the questions, they make me think deeper then I did for long time !

Luce

By: Carlos Alberto

Carlos Alberto — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:58:38 +0000

As Anthony Robbins says… People take decisions based on emotions and justify them with reason.

.. by the way, my emotions urge me to ask you, why is your blog in english and not in spanish… :(

Thanks

By: Iqra

Iqra — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:07:34 +0000

I totally agree wih Aditya.
I also have made some decisions in my life very irrationally and I also had to bear consiquences. Now i realise what is difference between Irrational and Rational.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:57:56 +0000

Little children are always asking ‘why?’ How wise. I don’t know if it is irrational, rational, perverse, stubborn or simply the open curiosity of innocence that wants the truth of things which allows adults to do the same thing.
‘Why’ is a refusal to accept things at face value and be taken in by them. ‘Why’ stops the footsteps on that well trodden path and begins the process of looking at the issue from other angles. Rational and irrational are 2 sides of 1 coin. We are holding the whole coin. ‘Why’ can lead us to either side of it, it can also take us beyond the coin altogether to the hand that holds it.

By: aditya

aditya — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:40:03 +0000

rationality is limited by the person’s capabilities, the race’s capabilities. what is rational goes on changing as we change with time, while irrationality is limitless. humans are capable of more than the limitations of their human mind, but rationality is within the capabilities of mind, hence what u say paulo, makes sence, we need to be able to use both ratinality and irrationality for a healthy existance !

By: wanbliska

wanbliska — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:30:32 +0000

It is unnecessary to have a mountain o’ things. But now I’d like some things in my life. Because I spent a long long time without asking a thing. Accepting to be poor.
Now I have projects that need money.
The rich person is blessed when he share his things.
We have all that we need in this world. Enough for all to be feed and clothed. And have fun.
People deserve it, as any one of us.

When I worked in a supermarket, I watched the customers with their caddie, waiting for the open. Once the doors were. They entered very promptly. I didn’t know if I had to cry or laugh. They seem to be feared by being short of all that mountain o’things.

I never go shopping. Only once a week, for food.
This could be add in my hell day list: Having to be in a supermarket on a saturday…

By: wanbliska

wanbliska — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:21:57 +0000

Mountains o’ things - Tracy Chapman

The life I’ve always wanted
I guess I’ll never have
I’ll be working for somebody else
Until I’m in my grave
I’ll be dreaming of a live of ease
And mountains
Oh mountains o’ things

To have a big expensive car
Drag my furs on the ground
And have a maid that I can tell
To bring me anything
Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed
I’ll revel in their attention
And mountains
Oh mountains o’ things

Sweet lazy life
Champagne and caviar
I hope you’ll come and find me
Cause you know who we are
Those who deserve the best in life
And know what money’s worth
And those whose sole misfortune
Was having mountains o’ nothing at birth

Oh they tell me
There’s still time to save my soul
They tell me
Renounce all
Renounce all those material things you gained by
Exploiting other human beings

Consume more than you need
This is the dream
Make you pauper
Or make you queen
I won’t die lonely
I’ll have it all prearranged
A grave that’s deep and wide enough
For me and all my mountains o’ things

Mostly I feel lonely
Good good people are
Good people are only
My stepping stones
It’s gonna take all my mountains o’ things
To surround me
Keep all my enemies away
Keep my sadness and loneliness at bay

The life I’ve always wanted
I guess I’ll never have
I’ll be working for somebody else
Until I’m in my grave
I’ll be dreaming of a live of ease
And mountains
Oh mountains o’ things

I’ll be dreaming, dreaming…
Dreaming…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:06:40 +0000

Well, I believe, the worst thing to get caught up in is routine or following others,and that is basically where the words rational and irrational come from. If it is “the norm”, then it is rational thought or action. If it goes against the grain, in every sence of the word, then it is irrational. But, just the opposite is true to me. Part of all the ill’s in the world are due to people conforming to old ways of thinking. If the goal of mankind is to evolve, then irrational, non-comforming thought, is the way to go.

Thank you
Daniel