Common Sense

[Balstrome]

It seems to me that the concept of "Common Sense" that the religious employ works well until they come across a subject that exists outside their common understandings. Once that happens, it disturbs them to a degree, and because they generally do not have the skill to go outside what they know, they reject the new data or information and go into a type of bunker mode.

The only way I can see for this type of behaviour ending is for each of them personally to expand the area their common sense covers, but as we know this can not be done from within the bunker. It's almost as if they have an addiction to stupidity. The idea behind the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal suggests this way of thinking. If I believe in something then it is true because I believe in it.what a load of waffle

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

Common sense is useless when it comes too deeper/more complex issues. So there isn't any actual importance in gaining "more common sense". What really matters is to be more open to new ideas and try to be as rational and logical as possible. That's a virtue these days.



Damn first time I try the youtube option. How do we even use this?

Edit: Hooray! I succeeded!

 

[lrkun]

If I believe in something then it is true because I believe in it

The basis of the christian faith. Well said. To be honest, I don't understand how guys, who are smart in other fields, like science/engeneering for example, believe in this bull.

 

[Balstrome]

Damn first time I try the youtube option. How do we even use this?

Edit: Hooray! I succeeded!

maybe, but I clicked on it and it disappeared. Probably a miscommunication

 

[lrkun]

Common sense means paying attention to the obvious. This is not as easy as it sounds. We all have vivid imaginations, and we tend to get lost in our fantasies.

When fantasy replaces common sense, life becomes farcical and even tragic. Life is a series of ordinary events that follow the laws of logic and probability. These ordinary events are indifferent to our fantasies and require the careful, accurate navigation of common sense.

I learned the lesson of common sense as a third-year medical student. I was doing an internal medicine rotation at a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital and working with interns, residents, and attending physicians.

One day, on morning rounds, we examined a patient with a black tongue. The intern assigned to that patient had researched all the causes of a black tongue and was eager to demonstrate his new knowledge. As the intern started to lecture us, the attending physician interrupted him and asked the patient if he uses black cough drops. The patient smiled, opened the drawer of his night table, and took out a package of Smith Brothers black cough drops.

The intern's face turned red, and we all laughed. The intern was so focused on being a doctor, that he forgot to ask his patient an obvious question. It's been forty years since I was a third-year medical student, but I still have a vivid memory of that day and that lesson: use common sense and pay attention to the obvious.

My thirty-five years of medical practice have taught me the lesson of common sense again and again. Eventually, I realized that society in general, and modern medicine in particular, lack common sense. This is why societal and medical problems are rarely solved. Let's apply common sense to healthcare.

Here, common sense is demonstrated to be useful. Therefore, common sense, in the absence of other means, isn't all that bad.

http://www.organicmd.org/commonsense.html

 

[BrainBlow]

"common sense" many places dictates that drinking urine when you have nothing else is a good idea.

 

[televator]

I really try to avoid relying on the concept of "common sense" because the "common" demographic of people changes depending on your surroundings. While very basic and broad principals can be held in common regardless of your surroundings, things like the belief in gods are commonly asserted as "common sense" and can be inconsistent depending on location.

 

[doodpersoon]

This is a quote from the book 1984 by George Orwelll.

In Part three it contains a quote which deals with common sense

(I am sorry for any mistakes in this posts, I was intoxicated while typing )

for the people not familiar witth the book, the main person is in a cell where he is being reprogrammed to believe whatever the party (goverment )tels himis true

Anything could be true, the so called law of nature where nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. If I wished" O'brian had said "I could float of this floor like a soap-bubble " Winston worked it out. If he thinks he floats of the air and I simultaneously thinks think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

suddenly like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind "It doesn't really happen. It is al a hallucination .

 

[lrkun]

This is a quote from the book 1984 by George Orwelll.

In Part three it contains a quote which deals with common sense

(I am sorry for any mistakes in this posts, I was intoxicated while typing )

for the people not familiar witth the book, the main person is in a cell where he is being reprogrammed to believe whatever the party (goverment )tels himis true

Anything could be true, the so called law of nature where nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. If I wished" O'brian had said "I could float of this floor like a soap-bubble " Winston worked it out. If he thinks he floats of the air and I simultaneously thinks think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

suddenly like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind "It doesn't really happen. It is al a hallucination .

I don't see, in the quote, that which refers to common sense. If it's okay, could you explain?

 

[Albern]

Hello fellow there, The use of the Common sense is very uncommon in this fast moving age now.... If you have any article on the common sense than frequently share with us and let every one know about the common sense theory..........