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almostgone

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Do you think the inability to acknowledge (or admit to having one) ones own faults and strengths is ignorance or arrogance?

Why is it that so many people cannot comprehend the precense of conflicting personality traits and the very basic human ability of being both good and bad?

The immovable notion that people are either good or bad is so strong in some people that they actually stop progressing as human beings - how can yo learn and grow if you think you already know everything?
 
I dont think anyone here thinks they know everything.
 
almostgone said:
Do you think the inability to acknowledge (or admit to having one) ones own faults and strengths is ignorance or arrogance?

Why is it that so many people cannot comprehend the precense of conflicting personality traits and the very basic human ability of being both good and bad?

The immovable notion that people are either good or bad is so strong in some people that they actually stop progressing as human beings - how can yo learn and grow if you think you already know everything?
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It sounds foolish, prejudgmental & shows lack of life experience.

If you have experience, you'll soon realize where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Avoiding acknowledgment of these feats borders with arrogance/ignorance and is plain foolish.

Placing people in extremes of either good or bad is also prejudgmental, considering that every fathomable scenario is subjected to unknown variables - intentional or unintentional.
 
almostgone said:
Do you think the inability to acknowledge (or admit to having one) ones own faults and strengths is ignorance or arrogance?

Why is it that so many people cannot comprehend the precense of conflicting personality traits and the very basic human ability of being both good and bad?

The immovable notion that people are either good or bad is so strong in some people that they actually stop progressing as human beings - how can yo learn and grow if you think you already know everything?
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Someone park in your bay this morning?
 
JK8 said:
I dont think anyone here thinks they know everything.
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I beg to differ. I know of at least 2 fellow forumites who have unwavering faith in their omniscience :p

But seriously, people who think they are without fault or weakness - arrogant or ignorant?
 
I think I know it all and am without fault or wkeaness.

If it helps at all.
 
I personally fee that self awareness is a skill that everyone should develop, I don't believe that it is a trait the comes naturally. Unfortunately for many people they only become self aware after someone else has pointed out a negative/positive aspect.

As for myself I find that I am extremely critical of myself and 9 times out of 10 I will rethink everything I've done/said and try to figure out ways in which I could have reacted/behaved differently. This however leads to not being able to accept compliments readily which I view as a bad trait in itself
 
almostgone said:
I beg to differ. I know of at least 2 fellow forumites who have unwavering faith in their omniscience :p

But seriously, people who think they are without fault or weakness - arrogant or ignorant?
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Maybe both...
 
This is the same as asking:
Is arrogance caused by ignorance?

I think that a strong case can be built around the case that a person who is arrogant (overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors) is only arrogant because the arrogant person measures themselves against their own value systems, and that these value systems are wholly incomplete.

Further increasing an arrogant person's knowledge of what other factors form part of the human value system should cause the arrogant person to be less arrogant. Unless that person fails to fail any of the values within the expanding value system.

i.e. If an arrogant person has a massive and complex and socially accepted value system and is still arrogant, then either the person is fooling themselves (putting on an act), or that person is due their arrogance.

Either way, arrogant people generally get what they want until they decide that it's not what they want.
 
almostgone said:
I beg to differ. I know of at least 2 fellow forumites who have unwavering faith in their omniscience :p

But seriously, people who think they are without fault or weakness - arrogant or ignorant?
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Ignorant of course, they're delusion too hahaha
Don't be mistaken all humans are equally fragile and limited by their senses, take the omniscientist out of
his cushy little control centre and he's as robust and superior as a speck of dust drifting in a ray of sunlight.

Knowledge is an excellent resource and it can make theoretical giants out of even the weakest link, however it is all circumstantial. :eek:
 
What's worse do you think: not seeing fault at all, seeing fault but not doing anything about it or seeing, trying to change and failing? Can the lack of self awareness ever be changed or does the inability to acknowledge falability forever block the path to insight? It's such a frustrating cycle. *sigh* The really infuriating thing is that many a beautiful opportunity is destroyed and discarded because of it. Oh well. Nobody ever said life was fair, right?
 
almostgone said:
What's worse do you think: not seeing fault at all, seeing fault but not doing anything about it or seeing, trying to change and failing? Can the lack of self awareness ever be changed or does the inability to acknowledge falability forever block the path to insight? It's such a frustrating cycle. *sigh* The really infuriating thing is that many a beautiful opportunity is destroyed and discarded because of it. Oh well. Nobody ever said life was fair, right?
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Not seeing fault is conditional and if you don't suspect anything is wrong, why would you change?

Failing is situational and temporary. It's the worst place to be, trying to get out.

Ignoring faults is pure arrogance. It requires outside intervention.

Are we still talking about the rapist?
 
Voicy said:
Not seeing fault is conditional and if you don't suspect anything is wrong, why would you change?

Failing is situational and temporary. It's the worst place to be, trying to get out.

Ignoring faults is pure arrogance. It requires outside intervention.

Are we still talking about the rapist?
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Lol :p For a change no. I'm not the hugest fan of people in general so this is just a general rant. Inspired by a particular person admittedly but, a general commentary none the less.

People suck. Bleh.
 
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