{"id":3919,"date":"2023-07-06T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2023-06-24T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T12:03:07","slug":"no-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/07\/no-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"No, You Don\u2019t \u201dKnow\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sorry, we (you and me) don&#8217;t &#8220;know&#8221; as often as we like to think.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I ask a person a question and their eyes look up, that means&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hah! Silly notion. I know what this means. I know what that means. I know what the other person is doing and thinking and feeling and what they will do next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hah! Silly notion. It is silly, however, until I take action that brings great harm to others based on my silly notion of &#8220;knowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, I feel uneasy when that person won&#8217;t look me in the eye. My unease is my problem. What am I going to do about my unease? I should not ruin another person&#8217;s life because I don&#8217;t know what to do with my unease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, direct eye contact in some cultures is a justification for killing. If I stare into a person&#8217;s eyes, I am stealing part of their soul. They are justified in killing me to retrieve their soul. These cultures exist in America, today. Didn&#8217;t know that? I didn&#8217;t either until one day&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry, I don&#8217;t &#8220;know&#8221; as often as I like to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sorry, we (you and me) don&#8217;t &#8220;know&#8221; as often as we like to think. When I ask a person a question and their eyes look up, that means&#8230; Hah! Silly notion. I know what this means. I know what that means. I know what the other person is doing and thinking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,106,20,10],"tags":[154,139,220,142,133],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-culture","category-knowledge","category-learning","category-people","tag-communication","tag-culture","tag-knowledge","tag-learning","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}