>>11839739This very much
Until you feel that resistance in your chest, neck, face, behind the eyes, you're not growing enough. Gotta face uncomfortable ideas to grow
This stoner was talking about ancient monolithic structures and how these ancient civilizations needed technology more advanced than we have today to cut rock that hard. We had previously talked about academic rigidity, so I had to shut up or be a hypocrite. He showed me the proof which was essentially dogmatic videos for 80 iq people. But by not discarding those ideas, and by throwing balls with him like would they have transistors at that time or just mechanical but somehow better tech etc it allowed space for some sort of underlying essence of the ideas to grow in me. That essence was respect for humans way past, their intelligence and life journeys, their cultures, and also that even today what we know will wither and dissolve, and all that remains could be a few rocks with high enough hardness in some thousands of years.
Darwin, Galileo, and others, had ideas that were more abstract in nature rather than connected to the reality lived by the humans at those times. To even play with the idea, ou have to take an emotional hit.
Alfred Wegener made an analogy of continental drift, quite recently relatively speaking, that took 50 years to be accepted.
Give all ideas the benefit of the doubt, I have discovered that for me personally it has ALWAYS paid off to THINK rather than not think, my emotional intuition about whether playing with some ideas are always underestimating the benefit.
