I do not know how to type. Nor can I knit, do accounting or taxes, sing well, speak Russian, or play a piano.
But I DO know how to read. I also know how to do exhaustive research, compare sources, question experts, and watch documentary films with experts interviewing other experts. I double or triple check information before I accept it as fact, and even then, I stay open to further revisions or corrections, as more information becomes available.
If I tell you that something is known to be a fact at the current level of understanding by experts on that subject - you can be pretty sure that I am qualified to tell you that.
I don't mind being proven wrong, because that always shows me a deeper truth, but if I say it's true - it is very likely to be so.
Maybe not everyone has the energy, time, or desire to do this kind of investigative research, but it is one of the things that happens to drive me. I NEED to know the truth and facts of things that are important to me, and I rarely trust what I hear or see, especially if it is something on facebook or yahoo, Fox News, Bing, etc. I will look to a source with no vested interest in the information it presents, capable of being objective and accurate, and then I will find one or two more similar sources to compare.
The entire sum of all recorded human knowledge is readily available to anyone, if only they make some effort to distinguish between shit and Shinola
There is a lot of made-up garbage all over the media and internet, and it's way too easy to be tricked or mislead by something that seems - at a glance - to be true.
Don't believe anything the first time you hear or read it. Don't even believe me. Just look with both eyes, and think a little.
But I DO know how to read. I also know how to do exhaustive research, compare sources, question experts, and watch documentary films with experts interviewing other experts. I double or triple check information before I accept it as fact, and even then, I stay open to further revisions or corrections, as more information becomes available.
If I tell you that something is known to be a fact at the current level of understanding by experts on that subject - you can be pretty sure that I am qualified to tell you that.
I don't mind being proven wrong, because that always shows me a deeper truth, but if I say it's true - it is very likely to be so.
Maybe not everyone has the energy, time, or desire to do this kind of investigative research, but it is one of the things that happens to drive me. I NEED to know the truth and facts of things that are important to me, and I rarely trust what I hear or see, especially if it is something on facebook or yahoo, Fox News, Bing, etc. I will look to a source with no vested interest in the information it presents, capable of being objective and accurate, and then I will find one or two more similar sources to compare.
The entire sum of all recorded human knowledge is readily available to anyone, if only they make some effort to distinguish between shit and Shinola
There is a lot of made-up garbage all over the media and internet, and it's way too easy to be tricked or mislead by something that seems - at a glance - to be true.
Don't believe anything the first time you hear or read it. Don't even believe me. Just look with both eyes, and think a little.
