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Sep 20, 2014, 02:59 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2002
Location: Mid World
Posts: 18,120
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Originally Posted by venusss
What is the difference between knowing and being plain stubborn?
How does one know that what they do is working for them? How do you know you are living right, especially if you are straying from the social conventions in one way or another?
How does one know that they are on the right side?
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I think it depends, in part, about what you are talking about.
There are somethings that are pretty concrete and have right and wrong. example - boiling water is hot enough to harm me. There is evidence to prove this. I can be stubborn and insist it is not true, but if I stick my hand in a pot of boiling water I'm going to be hurt.
Things like social norms are so different. They are more individual. You mention if something is working for the person. Again, that's so individual. Back in the 60's in the US people like Martin Luther King Jr. acted way outside the social norms. It lead to his death. I presume Mr. King acted as he did because he believed he was right. Society said he was wrong.
I've not fit in with the majority for most of my life. For me the guiding factor has been to do no harm. Does that makes sense?
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