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coberst · 03-23-2008, 02:21 PM

Looking for knowledge in all the wrong places

“Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places” is the name of a movie that came out long ago. It was the story of a woman who thought she could find love in the bars and night clubs of the city. It turned out to be a disaster for her.

Looking for knowledge in all the wrong places is equally problematic.

Internet discussion forums are great places to encounter new ideas that can arouse our curiosity and caring. These forums can raise our consciousness and from that consciousness we can be motivated to discover knowledge and perhaps understanding.

Internet discussion forums are the wrong places for acquiring knowledge. The best approach for acquiring knowledge is from books or perhaps from Google when our search is more superficial. When we wish to acquire knowledge we need to search for the best thinkers available to us; these best thinkers fill the shelves of our libraries and we can access them at little or no monetary cost. Our only investment need be time, energy, curiosity, and caring.

I have a “Friends of the Library” card from a local college library. For a yearly fee of $25 I have access to a great lending library.

Social osmosis will provide us little beyond infotainment.

Acquiring knowledge and understanding is like constructing a papier-mâché statue. It is an incremental process of slowly adding and subtracting small bits to a structure that takes form slowly as we piece together what is truth for us.

When we were in school our teacher guided our every move but when our schooling is over we must seek out the great minds of history as our guide.

Are you looking for knowledge in all the wrong places? What are some other places where we are deluded into thinking that we can find meaningful knowledge?

03-23-2008, 02:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
coberst Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 174	Looking for knowledge in all the wrong places Looking for knowledge in all the wrong places “Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places” is the name of a movie that came out long ago. It was the story of a woman who thought she could find love in the bars and night clubs of the city. It turned out to be a disaster for her. Looking for knowledge in all the wrong places is equally problematic. Internet discussion forums are great places to encounter new ideas that can arouse our curiosity and caring. These forums can raise our consciousness and from that consciousness we can be motivated to discover knowledge and perhaps understanding. Internet discussion forums are the wrong places for acquiring knowledge. The best approach for acquiring knowledge is from books or perhaps from Google when our search is more superficial. When we wish to acquire knowledge we need to search for the best thinkers available to us; these best thinkers fill the shelves of our libraries and we can access them at little or no monetary cost. Our only investment need be time, energy, curiosity, and caring. I have a “Friends of the Library” card from a local college library. For a yearly fee of $25 I have access to a great lending library. Social osmosis will provide us little beyond infotainment. Acquiring knowledge and understanding is like constructing a papier-mâché statue. It is an incremental process of slowly adding and subtracting small bits to a structure that takes form slowly as we piece together what is truth for us. When we were in school our teacher guided our every move but when our schooling is over we must seek out the great minds of history as our guide. Are you looking for knowledge in all the wrong places? What are some other places where we are deluded into thinking that we can find meaningful knowledge?