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Monday, January 7 - 3:33pm

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Tibor:

Generally, I agree with you on most things with few concerns. Here, I almost totally agree with you...but...there are situations which leave no time 'to think', agreed?

I remember a scene from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK where Sallah (Rhys-Davies) asks "Indy! What are you going to do now?" and Jones replies: "I dunno; I'm playing it by ear." :)

LLAP
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Monday, January 7 - 5:59pm

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I remember a scene from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK where Sallah (Rhys-Davies) asks "Indy! What are you going to do now?" and Jones replies: "I dunno; I'm playing it by ear." :)

But - that's not disregarding thinking - quite the opposite... it's applying thinking to the exigencies of the moment....

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Monday, January 7 - 8:01pm

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Live Free or Die Hard:
"What's your plan?"
"Rescue Lucy and kill them all."
"I meant 'plan' as in how to achieve that."

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Tuesday, January 8 - 3:37pm

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R-Malcom:
~ I never meant that thinking is 'disregarded'; merely that there are times when one has no time-TO-'think'...in a ratiocinatable Data-esque (or Spock-esque) way. --- Indy was chronically jumping out of a frying pan into a hotter one (rarely into 'the fire.') I saw him in his situations as that he always kept his wits about him (and, as Qui-Gon Jinn and Henri Cucard advised: "Stay aware of your surroundings!") and that his wits were due to all previous thinking he'd already done...akin to a martial-artist in the thick of a multiple-opponent do-or-die real fight.
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(Edited by John Dailey on 1/08, 4:02pm)

(Edited by John Dailey on 1/08, 4:19pm)

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Tuesday, January 8 - 6:05pm

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Thinking and deliberating aren't identical. When one makes an instantaneous decision, say on the road driving in difficult traffic, that's thinking--albeit fast, rapid thinking. One can actually train for this! "I'll think of something" does not mean "I'll engage in lengthy deliberation." It means simply that one will apply one's mind!

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Saturday, January 19 - 3:18pm

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Ok, no arg there, really. But, including that meaning within 'think', I then think (?) of Ducard's/Jinn's advice about 'stay aware of your surroundings.'

:)
LLAP
J:D