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Articles: Understanding is Everything |
Posted by
Xel_Pillik on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 09:57 AM PST
When I was a child, at about the age of nine, if my memory serves me well, I made a daring attempt to read The Scarlet Letter, the actual unabridged version. My mother bought it for me proud of her young daughter’s “advanced” reading level. As soon as we got to the car I started reading that book, I read the hell out of it. I took in every word from cover to cover, and understood … none of it.
At the time I felt almost superior to my peers just because I had read a difficult book, never mind that I was young to understand it, I was still proud.
Now that I’m older I realize that, honestly there was no reason for me to feel proud of myself. I didn’t understand anything, and therefore hadn’t gained anything by reading that book. So me reading it was pointless.
I discovered that doing anything with out understanding is pointless. Most of the time it’s the little questions like “Why?” and “How?” that are the most important to ask and answer. the infromation that is aquired from those answers that is needed to better our selves. I have allways felt that the purpose for living is the aqusition of knowledge
With out understanding, life is well… pointless
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Understanding is Everything | Login/Create an account | 11 Comments |
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by Dolorosa (SixOfSwords@IU.zzn.com)
on Mar 09, 2006 - 10:34 PM
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Coulda summed it up a lot quicker.
Life is pointless.
gotta remember the period at the end. it adds "oomph"
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by daria_4 (-)
on Mar 12, 2006 - 05:20 PM
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Though there was a point to the piece, it would have been a little easier to take without the small typo-ish mistakes. Don't get me wrong, I don't think a person isn't smart because those kinds of mistakes sometimes do make it to publication, but you would be served well in the future to check for those kinds of things a little more closely before hitting the submit button. Good, albeit short, article.
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by Domkitten (saradevil@saradevil.net)
on Mar 13, 2006 - 01:50 AM
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I agree pretty strongly with Daria's comments. This, though a short piece, has a lot of potential. Because it is so short the errors distract. We all make errors, and goodness knows I'm a number one offender, but if you are going to put in something this small take care to double check it.
As Dolo pointed out, the period does add oomph.
However, making a distinction between learning because you want to say you have learned, and learning because you have actually understood is self reflective and profound. I hope to see more of your writing.
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by callei on Mar 13, 2006 - 03:53 AM
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so you still would have had such a clear object lesson about the difference between reading and learning had you NOT read "Scarlet"?
While you were reading it, did you wonder abotu what you were missing, why the story went the way it did, or even what a word meant?
Did you not want or need that sense of pride that comes from reaching above ourself?
Did you not have that sensation of knowing you were missing something, but that it probably wasnt important to you now that we all get when we read things that dont matter to us but are well written (lets leave the debate about the story itself for another time ok?)
Did reading it not give you an internal ego prop for years after?
And mostly, didnt reading it teach you something? Eventually I mean.
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by Xel_Pillik (-)
on Mar 13, 2006 - 12:20 PM
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thanks for the comments, and constructive criticism, I appreciate all the help and input i can get.
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by feralucce (feralucce@wayoutonthecorner.com)
on Mar 14, 2006 - 06:19 AM
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undersatnding is reached only through confrontation... confrontation of the environment, others... or ones own inner being.
if you are wanting feedback as a writer...then I waill say taht timing is everything and a restructuring of the piece may be in order... state teh realization, then the example, then the conclusion... UNLESS, the intent was to make you sound like a little pretentious twat at age nine, with a mellowing... but the realisation is missing a reason and catalyst...
other feedback is bast on that as well... there has to be a reason for self realization as humans don't just move out of the rut without motivation... we are,at out core, creatures of habit. sooo... what triggered this realization... even if it is a conflict within... I want to know.
The peice had the earmarks of possible greatness... but there are many potentials that are never reached
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Re: Understanding is Everything
by Psychopixi (psychopixi.at.hotmail.com)
on Mar 17, 2006 - 09:42 AM
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I think you definitely had a good idea for an article, but it seemed like once you'd explained the background you didn't quite know how to explain the rest of it.
Like Dolo said, you could have summed up what you -have- written in maybe a paragraph. If that. I did feel that maybe you had more to say, but you just didn't catch hold of the first bit of detail that would have led to a fuller article.
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