I am interested in disinterested knowledge

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I am interested in disinterested knowledge

Disinterested knowledge is the energy bunny. It generates the energy for exploration and for overcoming some of the inhibitions consciousness places on the unconscious.

Disinterested knowledge is an intrinsic value. Disinterested knowledge is not a means but an end. It is knowledge I seek because I desire to know it. I mean the term 'disinterested knowledge' as similar to 'pure research', as compared to 'applied research'. Pure research seeks to know truth unconnected to any specific application.

Studying disinterested knowledge is like taking off a month every year to visit a strange new land. Curiosity is reinvigorated and new meaning is created.

Knowledge is like a jigsaw puzzle. We have created many puzzles in coping with reality and when we receive a new piece of knowledge that does not fit our present puzzles we forgetaboutit (Italian word for ?'forget about it'). However, if through disinterested knowledge we have created new puzzles within which the new knowledge might fit we might find a whole new meaning in life.

Our mind is constantly working for us and when we do not give it a worthwhile project, i.e. a new puzzle, it will just waste away in boredom or worry.

Instrumental knowledge is interested knowledge. Instrumental knowledge is the life blood of a value system that places the maximizing of production and consumption as "Number One".

Disinterested knowledge is the un-knowledge, it is the non-instrumental knowledge. Disinterested knowledge is an alien and clumsy word in a society that places maximum value on production and consumption. Disinterested knowledge is not a catalyst of production and consumption but it is the catalyst of creativity. Disinterested knowledge is the mixing bowl of creativity.

Creativity is the synthesis of the known into a model of the unknown. The value of the unknown is yet to be determined. Creativity requires a comfort with the unknown.

Disinterested knowledge is a means to defragment your brain.

Have you ever studied disinterested knowledge?

Do you think it is important to love to learn?

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coberst wrote:

forgetaboutit (Italian word for ?'forget about it')

I rather think you mean "forgeddaboutit" - (Imported US English slang word formed from the phrase "forget about it").

No way is "forgetaboutit" a true word in the Italian language, any more than "faire le far niente" is a completely French phrase for "relaxing doing nothing", or "carte blanche" is an English phrase meaning "a free hand".

Just a bit of disinterested knowledge, not that I believe such a thing is really possible.

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I would think it was "forged about it" but I'm not really interested..

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Francis wrote:

I would think it was "forged about it" but I'm not really interested..

Forgeddaboutit -- spelt thus -- is New York/Noo Joisey English slang spoken by people like Tony Soprano etc, who are about as "Italian" as the Queen of England.

Check it out on Google.

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Are people who study "disinterested knowledge" good at Jeopardy?

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contrex wrote:

coberst wrote:
forgetaboutit (Italian word for ?'forget about it')

I rather think you mean "forgeddaboutit" - (Imported US English slang word formed from the phrase "forget about it").

No way is "forgetaboutit" a true word in the Italian language, any more than "faire le far niente" is a completely French phrase for "relaxing doing nothing", or "carte blanche" is an English phrase meaning "a free hand".

Just a bit of disinterested knowledge, not that I believe such a thing is really possible.

You evidently never watch the movies.

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Disinterested knowledge is an intrinsic value. Disinterested knowledge is not a means but an end. It is knowledge I seek because I desire to know it. I mean the term 'disinterested knowledge' as similar to 'pure research', as compared to 'applied research'. Pure research seeks to know truth unconnected to any specific application.

I am very interested in disinterested knowledge if I am understanding this correctly.

I like to just know about things. Something catches my interest and I look into it. I may not have practical application for it. It may just be to know it.

I don't know that there is any knowledge, even acquired just for the sake of knowing, that does not eventually get applied. Even if it is subtly or unconsciously applied.

Am I getting the gist of your point? Or am I way off?

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coberst wrote:

You evidently never watch the movies.

How is "watching the movies" going to prove you right and me wrong?. I must watch 100 films a year. Not Hollywood crap, admittedly, mostly Italian, Spanish, French, Argentinian, and German films.

So how would watching the movies teach me that "forgeddaboutit" is an Italian word, and not American slang? I have seen 10 Italian movies this year, without subtitles, and in none of them was that word used.

It's not a proper Italian word, and that's all there is to say about it.

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contrex wrote:

It's not a proper Italian word, ....

Chiaro, se fosse vero, lo saprei...

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(raises hand)

excuse me?

It's fugedaboudit.

Chai(born in NJ and saw Donny Brasco)Tea

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jake123 wrote:

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Disinterested knowledge is an intrinsic value. Disinterested knowledge is not a means but an end. It is knowledge I seek because I desire to know it. I mean the term 'disinterested knowledge' as similar to 'pure research', as compared to 'applied research'. Pure research seeks to know truth unconnected to any specific application.

I am very interested in disinterested knowledge if I am understanding this correctly.

I like to just know about things. Something catches my interest and I look into it. I may not have practical application for it. It may just be to know it.

I don't know that there is any knowledge, even acquired just for the sake of knowing, that does not eventually get applied. Even if it is subtly or unconsciously applied.

Am I getting the gist of your point? Or am I way off?

Bingo! That is exactly what I mean. Follow your curiosity. To help in this quest I suggest that you acquire a "Friends of the Library" card from a local college. With this card, which will be a fee of about $25 per year, you will have access to all the books you might want when followinf your curiosity.

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Yes the movie with Al Pachino. Al said that word a dozen times in that movie.

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coberst wrote:

Yes the movie with Al Pachino. Al said that word a dozen times in that movie.

Did you mean that well-known "Italian" Al Pacino?

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contrex wrote:

coberst wrote:
Yes the movie with Al Pachino. Al said that word a dozen times in that movie.

Did you mean that well-known "Italian" Al Pacino?

Yes, excuse the typo.

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But Al Pacino is not Italian, and he spoke English in the movie, Coberst, you seem to be an expert at wriggling out of the results of your foolishness. I should call you Oberst, because you are a Colonel of silliness!

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contrex wrote:

But Al Pacino is not Italian, and he spoke English in the movie, Coberst, you seem to be an expert at wriggling out of the results of your foolishness. I should call you Oberst, because you are a Colonel of silliness!

You must be German.

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Yes, I shall call you Oberst too!

you silly Oberst.

here's another good phrase....

whaddayagonnado?

as in....That Contrex is such a mullet head....

response....whaddayagonndo? (along with a shrug)

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coberst wrote:

You must be German.

Why?

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How about "Watzitooya?"

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jake123 wrote:

How about "Watzitooya?"

who want's to know?

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