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=> Good Will Hunting...

Good Will Hunting...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, January 5 2014, 13:52:12 (UTC)
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...everyone who wasn't a teacher must have cheered at the scene where Mat Damon destroys the preppy by pointing out that all his high-faluttin education amounted to was reading, and memorizing, other people's ideas, which he could have done for free at any public library, no need to go to Harvard.....well, that's chess for you.

...our society is enamored of "knowledge"....if you "know a lot" you are considered intelligent...as if memorizing is anywhere close to Thinking. But that's how people "think"....they review what they think are facts and make a decision or take an action based on what they "know"...where they got their facts never enters the equation.

You want to "know" who shot Kennedy? Then read the Warren Commission report for the facts, and then you'll know. Except they were very careful NOT to interview certain people and also not to ask certain questions...if you do that, you can certainly come to the conclusion they did....and people who buy such things believe there is never anything to "think" about...you just go where you're led....easy enough.

That's chess too.

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..almost human pancho - Saturday, January 4 2014, 14:06:56 (UTC)
- I Hate Chess.... pancho - 01/04 14:25
  - Good Will Hunting... pancho - 01/05 13:52
    - Re: Good Will Hunting... Marcello - 01/05 22:25
      - Re: Good Will Hunting... pancho - 01/05 23:37
        Re: Good Will Hunting... Marcello - 01/06 00:15
        Re: Good Will Hunting... pancho - 01/06 01:57

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