do you take everything as 'de facto?'

[cacian]

or should you question everything as a matter of fact?

I question everything from the news to the books, to the sciences to the religious texts and beliefs because I cannot allow myself to rely blindly on others just in case they were in the wrong. Such is my nature and what's more I enjoy the challenges of rediscoveries.

[martunia99]

It depends on the subject and I do take some very unrealistic things very seariously but I do question other things. I always need a reason to question something before I do it but usaually at the start I like take it as "De Facto" but then when I try to explain it it turns around and I start questioning it. But I love to belive in things because it brings hope and a little happines into my life. I think I have a split personality about things like that. :)

[RicMisc]

Some of things I just take as they come, because I think I'd go crazy if I would question everything that was thrown at me. In subjects that interest me or I happen to have some knowledge of from endlessly browsing Wikipedia I'm not that easy though. I like knowing stuff and I am not afraid to say that I like to show what I know, which often results in endless discussions with my friends or family. To question certain things I believe is important because only then you can really find out what your opinion is on certain subjects, and this helps form you in the person you are or want to become.

[BienvenuJDC]

I'm naturally a skeptic. If you tell me that the sun is out, I'll double check.

[Delta40]

Well I'm a trusting person so I would give people the benefit of the doubt because I expect them to be truthful. When they are not, I draw my conclusion and make decisions from there and use my experience for future dealings with them. I don't make judgments about guilt or innocence based on media reports because I have served on a jury and would always consider the media as unreliable. I would not spend my life questioning everything because I would not know peace. There are some subjects that I know I won't find answers to in my lifetime such as God so I will wait till I die and find out then! I would feel extremely insecure double checking everything that is said to me.

[Jack of Hearts]

It's good to take it de facto but leave it ambiguous.






J

[cacian]

It's good to take it de facto but leave it ambiguous.






J

Haha....I see do you do that with your writing too?

[tonywalt]

On a completely separate note, I love the latin expression ''de facto''. We use it often in the legal world, and although there are equivalent expressions in English, this was is the tightest and carries better comprehensive currency.

"The legal directors of xyc are so and so, but the de facto controllers are Mr. Roth and Mr. Weinberg"

"The president of the country Bananarama is Mr. Bobo, but the de facto leader is Mr. Mooswahili"

Great Expression, and used almost daily, as things are not always as they appear to be...legally and otherwise.

[cacian]

On a completely separate note, I love the latin expression ''de facto''. We use it often in the legal world, and although there are equivalent expressions in English, this was is the tightest and carries better comprehensive currency.

"The legal directors of xyc are so and so, but the de facto controllers are Mr. Roth and Mr. Weinberg"

"The president of the country Bananarama is Mr. Bobo, but the de facto leader is Mr. Mooswahili"

Great Expression, and used almost daily, as things are not always as they appear to be...legally and otherwise.

I do find interesting and I did look it up again and found this bit most interesting

Another example of a de facto ruler is someone who is not the actual ruler but exerts great or total influence over the true ruler, which is quite common in monarchies.

It does not make sense because one
there is not such a thing a true ruler
and two
Monarachy is as good true sovereign as it gets. It is in the blood whether one likes or not.

which brings me to this question:

what does a true ruler mean?
as far as I know no one is born a ruler/dictator thank god for that.
and Monarchy I do not consider as ruler but the true owners of the land.

[Emil Miller]

This is why it's sometimes unwise to believe what one is told.

There’s a story of a professor of journalism calling a newspaper and telling them he had photographic evidence that Elvis Presley was alive.

A team was immediately despatched to his home and he handed them a photograph of himself, taken in his study.

So how was this ‘photographic evidence’ that The King was not dead?

‘Oh’, said the professor, ‘Mr Presley took the photo...’

[Patrick_Bateman]

My time in the army has made me far too obedient to the authority of the men and women I read, on subjects such as history, science, philosophy, psychology etc

I question things but not as much as I should. I have too much trust, respect and deep-seated subservience to authority.

[Gladys]

Faithful to Martin Luther's memory I always put the best construction on everything, from moment to moment. But in sympathy with Lutheran pastor Soren Kierkegaard, I accept that things are rarely as they seem.

Interestingly, in a training course on management styles I alone gained the tag anarchist and was told nothing useful could be said of me.

[Pensive]

You have hit right on my weakest point! :p
I am skeptical to the point of being a freak!
Back in school I would always have timing issues not because I was slow at solving problems but only because I would spend time even re-checking the calculations!

When it comes to human relationships and people I tend to be the opposite however. Very trusting.