Alternate thinking.
If you're someone like me, understanding what people are trying to say may not be difficult. However, saying something so that other people will understand so they can understand may be abit of a problem, especially if you constantly think that an alternate thinker like myself is going to read it.
Intro:
Alternate thinking, in a nutshell, simply means thinking differently from other people. Can be anything. Deciphering what other people mean, doing things differently, seeing different perspectives. For me, this concept is still new and I'm trying to practice more of it and eventually get into higher levels. Meaning open up more things that involve alternate thinking rather than just obtaining different meaning from sentences from logic via the English language.
Alternate thinking in sentences:
Every now and then, you'll realise that everything people say have some flaws in it and the meaning you get may not be the meaning they want to get across.
Here's why I find it hard to express the things I mean.
Example: Chuck Norris can weld titanium when he pees.
What I think the person is trying to say (what the average person interprets the sentence as): Chuck Norris' urine can weld titanium when he takes a piss.
What I get from it:
Chuck Norris can weld titanium when he pees.
He cannot do it once he's done.
It does not neccessarily mean his urine can wield titanium.
He can probably only use a blowtorch when he pisses.
The blowtorch doesn't work when he stops peeing.
He can't weld other metals.
His urine may be the one that's welding the titanium.
His urine only welds titanium when he pisses it out.
His urine cannot weld titanium when he does not piss it out.
etc
etc
you get the drift.
And this is why it is difficult for me to form sentences so that people may understand, because I fear of another alternate thinker that may come along and read what I'm writing and doesn't understand it.
If I want to form a sentence that means the same for everyone, it would be very difficult.
I would want my sentence to mean:
Chuck Norris pees urine.
His urine can weld metals only when he pees it out.
His urine cannot weld metals if he doesn't pee it out.
He cannot weld titanium after he is done.
It is his pee that weld the metals and not him using some blowtorch or external device to weld the metal when he pees.
etc
etc
This shows that you cannot be specific enough with only one sentence. The more the person thinks, the more sentences is required. The more sentences there are, the more the person thinks. Hence, it's a never ending cycle. And it is true. If you practice some alternate thinking yourself, you'll see that the sentences in bold above can be broken down into all the different meanings too.
The fact that we're only specific in certain areas already tell us that we expect people to know what is going to happen and what they mean because of experience and the flow of events that we rationalise. However, experience does not teach us everything and events can change and stop happenning in an instant.
Our intuition can give way and rationalising with the wrong intuition only makes it worse.
Hope this leaves you with some fun. If you're confused or anything, you can ask me or you can just continue thinking. Just make sure it doesn't mess up the way to interpret sentences like I do.
So what's the sentence that I've come up with that has all the bolded meanings listed above inside? I don't know. I'm just glad the vast majority of the people out there aren't alternate thinkers too so I don't have to worry about them not getting what I'm trying to say.
Enough said.
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