Jag känner igen en hel del av det du berättar. När jag var ung så ville jag mestadels att man låtar mig i fred. Tyvärr har många ingen aning vad man ska göra med någon "annorlunda" som de verkligen inte förstår, särskilt när de också är unga.
Jag är inte alls övertygad på att ett annat jobb kommer ge dig en bekvämmare omgivning, men du får kanske lyckas hitta folk som uppskattar dig för dina skillnader. Det hoppas jag på i alla fall.
Peace.
You don't need to study axioms in order to accept them, but once you accept them, then you must accept any soundly derived conclusion from them. Belief doesn't need to be logically consistent, but knowledge does.
As for investing significant time and energy, I would say that that depends on things such as the length of the chain of reasoning or the difficulty/cost of testing a hypothesis or how closely observations match your intuition. Some knowledge is cheap to acquire, such as "the sun rises in the east", because we can observe it directly and we can clearly identify the direction of east and the sun's path in the sky is very stable from day to day.
I have drunk some decades old bottles of wine. I was worried each time that the bottle had become undrinkable, but not that it had become dangerous.
Belief regards opinions, in which people have a free choice to accept or reject the idea. There is no notion of rightness or wrongness.
Knowledge regards conclusions from a set of axioms, in which people who accept the axioms are honor-bound to accept the conclusions. To reject the conclusion while accepting the axioms would be wrong.
In my life, this governs when I can freely choose and when I am obliged to accept a claim based on whether I've accepted previous claims.
I have worked this schedule at a job I disliked. Never more than about 32 hours from time off felt amazing.
Of the ones I tried to read, Atlas Shrugged, and it's not even close.
Never program a computer you can't unplug.
Canadian. Didn't see this option yet. Anyone else?
As a young person with an interest in languages and an eye towards working professionally as a computer programmer, I found this story especially delightful. It was one of the ones that led me to read more Clarke.
And the parenthetical near the end hit me even harder than the last line did.
Chronologically LOST.
It's Mayberry, the most wholesome place on Earth, and he fucked it up.
It influences folks subconsciously, which in legal proceedings with a significant public relations component, is powerful and effective. It's even better to influence people without their conscious awareness that it's happening. And yes, some folks aren't taken in by it, but a surprising number are. It would be tantamount to legal malpractice not to advise your client to try. 🙄