@Bluetreefrog to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 2 months agoA fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking.message-square21arrow-up199arrow-down113
arrow-up186arrow-down1message-squareA fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking.@Bluetreefrog to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square21
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•2 months agoYou just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.
minus-squarehornfacelinkfedilink5•2 months agoYou sound like someone I know who insists that the probability of anything happening is always 50/50, because “either it happens or it doesn’t”.
You just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.
You sound like someone I know who insists that the probability of anything happening is always 50/50, because “either it happens or it doesn’t”.