[Grovenet] Google Earth 4 Beta

[David Morelli]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>
> I would never presume to believe I could or should "go into  
> another's mind" but, if I could, I know that I am not likely to  
> find such an alien landscape as one might expect.
>
> One thing I've come to realize over the years is that we Humans are  
> not really very different from each other. Whatever pains,  
> problems, terrors or trials we believe we are individually  
> afflicted with to suffer alone inside our heads are actually shared  
> by most of our neighbors too.
>
> I think that's the genesis of the wise old saying about walking a  
> mile in another man's shoes (or moccasins).
>
> For me, imagining what might drive another person to make the  
> choices they have by picturing myself making the same choices is an  
> important step in reaching out to the person to better understand  
> his motives, his needs and make a human-to-human connection.
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire

Well maybe.  However, I think I agree with the writer earlier this  
week who wrote...

> The only thing I understand for sure is that the name one applies  
> to oneself has nothing to do with the insanity that may live within  
> his head.
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire

Even when they describe their reasoning to me, too often, I have  
absolutely no clue to the motivation behind people's actions.  This  
forum is nice because people take the time to actually try to be  
coherent and understandable, and I still have serious problems with  
the translation to David-speak (which is the language of my mind).   
While I may picture myself making the same choices as someone else,  
too often that still brings me to a wrong understanding of their  
feelings.

On occasion I will see and understand something that no one else puts  
value upon, or I might strive to get some grasp, any grasp on some  
widely shared common opinion.  We humans have much in common with  
each other.  Is it more or less than we have in common with other  
animals?  I know the real answer, but somedays I just don't believe  
it.  I don't mean to sound negative.  I just get frustrated sometimes  
trying to understand my own species.  Since they vastly outnumber me,  
they are the "norm", and that makes me the abnormal.  Is that "the  
insanity within his head"?

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which one?
David