Things I Already Know?

[Silverhaze]

So... as many of you know I have recently started my college career.

My first semester and I'm picking up some summer courses: Psychology and Political Science....

The odd part is... pretty much mostly all the things that we are learning in my class... well these things have already crossed my mind many times before. It feels more like remembering than learning especially with Psych.

I mean yes I didn't know the terminology but I already knew most of the theories and the ideas and other things...

Has anyone else felt this way before? Like they weren't really learning... just remembering things they already know?

[green]

I don't know if this is what you're describing, but whenever I'm learning something, it all just seems to fall into place in my head. Or whenever I'm faced with a functional object, I just seem to know how it works without having to dissect it.

Except history classes...they somehow fight with my brain. I sometimes hear a voice in my head shouting "That's not how it was! It was totally different!"

[JoeyM]

Yeah, I have had that. Come to think of it, when I was in class sometimes I would also get this thing where I'd look at the teacher and it almost seemed like I was hearing what he/she would say like a split second before it was happening in my head...as they were talking. If that makes sense?

Also, I liked your empath/sex thread, I didn't have anything to add but I really like how validating it is to be on this site. Peace..

[Hearsekid]

Silverhaze looks like a little roman goddess witha perfect nose...just had to add that even tho it has nothing to do with anything im sooo random

[Silverhaze]

lol thanks Hearsekid

and I think what you are describing green is what I'm talking about kind of... and history was weird for me too... I always got mad because they focus mostly on the wars and there is sooo much else that happened and ... I dunno... it just doesn't agree with me that much
the past is past right

Joeym I think it is awesome that we can be open like that on this site... it doesn't seem to take long either....

[green]

I was so mad that so much was glossed over in the history classes. Take American history. Not a scrap about American Indians (call the people what you will, I love them all the same), and if there was it was stuff like "And a smooth defeat in Florida for Zachary Taylor..." and "Custer was a war hero..." Wait, what? But--the Seminole! The Sioux? Nothing about the Iroquois Convention, nothing about small pox blankets...but always filled with snide bits about casinos and alcoholism.

Ugh. Sorry for the rant.

But with this, do you find you "learn easily"? For me, for a lot of things, it's just touch and go.

[h0bby1]

yes i felt that all my life lol but that still the same thing than with shamanism where ppl can just guess the reality way of working just by thinking or whatever about it all the knowlegde leads to same path and is just a way to conceptualize the reality, so i guess you might have this guessing ability to guess what you are taught at school =)

i guess that's why lots of us are having trouble with catching with school.

something i always felt is that with lots of school , this knowlegde is somewhat mixed with a certain simple point of view of life which bothered me still much.it was like some important part of the reality they explain were omitted.

now that i'm older and know more about the society, i always try to discern the 'reality path' school are spreading, and well there would be a lot to say on that.

a friend of me told it was like 'you are doing shaman transe all the time'

[Silverhaze]

I was so mad that so much was glossed over in the history classes. Take American history. Not a scrap about American Indians (call the people what you will, I love them all the same), and if there was it was stuff like "And a smooth defeat in Florida for Zachary Taylor..." and "Custer was a war hero..." Wait, what? But--the Seminole! The Sioux? Nothing about the Iroquois Convention, nothing about small pox blankets...but always filled with snide bits about casinos and alcoholism.

Ugh. Sorry for the rant.

But with this, do you find you "learn easily"? For me, for a lot of things, it's just touch and go.

yes I agree.. and if you go to school down south all they talk about is slavery and how horrible white people are for having slaves... I'm like hello that was over a century ago. It wasn't me!!!

but yes I do learn very easily in most things

[green]

Yeah...I'm from Southern stock. There are people in my convoluted family tree that owned slaves, but I'm not related to them (a piece of paper doesn't do it for me). On the side of my family where I am carrying the genes, though, I'm 3rd or 4th generation. How could a German immigrant own slaves in Pennsylvania? They couldn't. So don't look at me like I did anything. We just got here!

The South is such a crazy place.

[Silverhaze]

I think that the important part of history to hold on to is culture however even holding on to culture too much can breed hate and contempt
people worry to much about what happened between others in the past. If we hold on to that to much then we can never escape it and grow to be better, but if we totally forget it then too we might make the same mistakes again.
I think there is a balance to how much of history we should deem of importance.

[h0bby1]

its a matter of matching past things correctly to present ones

[h0bby1]

the real bad thing is faking history to control the future

"who control the past conquer the future" kane c&c

[Soulsearcher29]

I took psychology too, I felt the same way, I knew it already but it was good to see it in print. That was my favorite subject, I think the further you get into it, the more your going to like it

[h0bby1]

history is memory and is always good =)

[Silverhaze]

I took psychology too, I felt the same way, I knew it already but it was good to see it in print. That was my favorite subject, I think the further you get into it, the more your going to like it

Actually I only have a week left. I do love it though! Can't wait to get to some higher level classes.

[Satisfiction]

Yes! I'm very much like that with some topics... I feel like I'm being reminded, not taught for the first time. I love it... it's like having massive confirmations that you're on the right track.

[bluewaterdance]

Something that's important about higher education is not just new learning (as some is old) but the way of approaching the pursuit of knowledge. A good liberal arts education alters the way you think through problems and utilize information in the process. This is the ideal.

[Amur]

Well, anyone can reach into a state of All-knowingness where practically all the knowledge is made available for you to look at or even experience. But if you look at how the world functions and what is going to happen next I'm willing to bet my horses that you will be bored in approximately 1 minute of doing so as even your own moves are seen lol. I tend to get so bored in that state that I want to die and cease to exist alltogether hehe. Though can always create new interesting things