FMZ, Hey dude, ah...it looks like ya' got a little sumpin' caught in your tooth.....no, no...the one on the bottom..
Were You Ever A Deep Thinker? ......Are You Now???
by minimus 72 Replies latest jw friends
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Sunnygal41
I have always been a deep thinker. It comes with the whole "depression" territory.
FMZ!!! Dayum!! I was just about ready to launch into an explanation of how after I experienced depression it made me into a deep thinker! LOL! It does, absolutely!! Glad to know I'm not alone!!
Terri
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minimus
For sooooooo many years we were not allowed to think. We were told only to meditate on God's Word (publications). Now I think that we're FORCED to think! That can get scary.
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Sunnygal41
Min, thank you for that point.............sometimes I look back on who I was before I began to be depressed and think to myself "man, what a self-centered, oblivious individual you were". I was 22 when depression first hit me. I look around me at all the young people today who are soooo deep, so well developed as intellectuals, etc. and I guess I wondered deep inside whether I was a real shallow person..........but, I feel differently now. We were not allowed to think when we were in, everything was there in writing for us and we just sucked it down like mindless robots and repeated it verbatim.................
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patio34
Hi Minimus,
It seems to me the question has to be refined. There are multiple types of "deep" thinking: researcher, brooder, philosopher, analyst, etc. And, deep thinker as opposed to what? Shallow thinker? Unintelligent vs. intelligent? I can't really answer the question.
I am, in case you couldn't tell, the researcher and detail type.
Cheers!
Patio
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minimus
either that or just a critic.
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LittleToe
Sorry, I'm back (or should that be - I'm back, sorry?).
I went outside and slapped myself around the head a few times.
I suspect that many of us go through cycles of deep thinking, especially when confronting our cherished beliefs.
As Patio highlights, though, we all process things differently.
Understanding that fact can often help us to appreciate another's point of view, rather than just assuming that everyone else thinks and processes the way we do.If you are asking from the perspective of an addicted question-asker whether or not we incessantly ask questions on every aspect of life including the deep and mysterious, now that's another matter...
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minimus
Little Toe-----Thanks. I appreciate that today.
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Wild_Thing
No ... I'm still as shallow as I ever was.
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AlanF
I've never acquired that bad habit.
AlanF