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RebelliousOne
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Location: Arkansas
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 Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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Dan:
I have experienced the situation where someone's intuitions says that someone is guilty of murder, but the logical sequence of events have shown otherwise; indeed, I have written 'rules violations reports' in which I have use pure logic to incriminate the perpetrator, despite the superficial -- and intutive -- belief that the inmate was innocent. Intuition is fine when playing parlor games, but when it comes to life and eath situations, cold, calculating logic is the only thing that will point to the true criminal.
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Dan
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004
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Location: US
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hi RO,
You are correct when you say that logic rules the roost...i am only saying that sometimes the situation becomes quite ironical. You know deep in your heart that the victim is innocent but the facts point out otherwise.
Howevr i don't think that gut feelings are just superficial and should be ignored. In our daily life they help us take wise decisions. |
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RebelliousOne
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Dan wrote: | | I have experienced that the way you use your logic or intuition depends a lot on the situation at hand. There may be situations like opting for a job or getting married when everything logically seems perfect but somewhere deep down in your heart you feel that something is wrong and you aren't able to pinpoint it. And often when you ignore your instincts, you have to regret it later. |
Dan:
The only times in my life when I ever let my gutfeel take control was during my tours of duty in Vietnam and Korea, and some what when I worked in the prison. Although walking the Vietnamese jungle was different than walking the Korean "DMZ," both were "free-fire zones" and, consequently, one functioned more at the instinctual level, rather than at any intuitive or logical level. As for the prison, I found it best to usually wait before reacting, even if the waiting was just for a nano-second; indeed, it allowed one to assess the situation before making the wrong decision -- considering such a decision in the prison setting could land the officer in prison. Still, under stress, one either learns to deal effectively with the situation, or one ends up in the hospital -- or worse.
Other than those three exceptions, however, it has been my experience that one should never base a decision on intuition; it is too often wrong. Had I followed my intuition and not gotten married just days before my deployment to Vietnam, I very possibly would not have had the three-and-one-half decades of memories I now have of a loving and wonderful wife; indeed, I would be living a miserable existence. Lucky for me, though, I used logic to dispel the demons of doubt and, as a reward for my cool thinking, I've had a great life with a great wife.
Moral of the story: Think before you act, and you act once; think after you act, and you act twice.
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