Contradictions

[DelusiveNinja]

How do you contradict yourself? If you don't contradict yourself, how are you different from your MBTI/Socionics discription?

Contradiction 1: I don't like to stand out yet, I sit in isolation in the class room away from groups of people, which draws unwanted attention (from the students and sometimes the teacher).
Contradiction 2: I pursue knowledge and wisdom yet, I'm uncomfortable and sometimes reluctant to practice, experience new things (go outside), and produce practical results.
Contradiction 3: I brainstorm out loud even though I am supposed to be an introverted thinker.
Contradiction 4: I want to be recognized for my hard work but, I don't want to be famous or continuously told I am smart.
Contradiction 5: I don't like to socializing but I enjoy talking to myself.

 

[Foxman49]

I do numbers 3 and 5. Mostly five




Concerning contradictions about people: (just to mess with your mind )

Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also. Thus, he believes that children were indeed the kingdom of heaven, but nevertheless ought to be obedient to the kingdom of earth. He admired youth because it was young and age because it was not. It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.

-G. K. Chesterton

Try and understand that

 

[DelusiveNinja]

The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.

-G. K. Chesterton

So, if the mystic were to allow himself to become mysterious, would "everything" become lucid and vice versa? I don't get it but it's worth probing into.
Is he (G. K. Chesterton) one of your favorite authors?

 

[Foxman49]

So, if the mystic were to allow himself to become mysterious, would "everything" become lucid and vice versa? I don't get it but it's worth probing into.
Is he (G. K. Chesterton) one of your favorite authors?

Actually no. I found out about him the usual way (Wikipedia surfing) and then read some of his page on wiki quote. He does seem really cool though and I'll try to read some of his works in the near future.

 

[Jennywocky]

Interesting side note: Neil Gaiman based the character of Fiddler's Green in "The Sandman" on GK Chesterton.