Sadly the only thing I think I know a fair bit about in depth would be concrete, yes concrete, the stuff that is usually grey and goes hard, exciting or what. I would add that I do however believe I am aware enough on a multitude of subjects to be able to 'have a bit of a go at' and least have a starting opinion on them.
Trev I am envious of your interest in history especially the military side and even more especially the Napoleonic era. My heroes come from then namely Nelson and also taking into account his monomaniacal streak Napoleon.
How cool a time are you going to have guiding people through the sites of the Penisular wars or what! Got any plans afoot for 2015 I wonder?
I may seem a tad harsh on a couple of subject in here, but what I type is purely down to what i've experienced so far in life. Thankfully, im always happy to put my hands up and say I was perhaps off then. I still love learning and think its one of life's pleasures too. Surely in here everyone's views are based on personal experience as well? I would say i know more about football, early years getting my life education in the Army is still there and as a career geek in the City id hope most IT from desktop to server into comms and security I should know better than most too lol
The rest is a mystery but have fun finding out about the mystery bits daily. Wonder too if im the one all have diametrically opposite views from too lol .. cant be though as two in my recent harsh post agreed .. Can you form views and opinions based on anything other than pure experience of them too? Isn't that the only way to know and also feel the pain and happiness that forms actual views and opinion?
Isn't that the point of forums though, to debate a topic you feel strong enough about to post in? Fiercely patriotic and proud to have my UK passport having served the realm to now believe the Great bit before Britain no longer to be needed or true. I post in absolute belief no matter how harsh, I base my views on personal experience and even if totally diametric from most, willing to post them and try my best to answer the posts from others about them too.
Isnt the point to debate a subject here and air our experience and opinions. Even if only one has the opposite to all too. Why can anyone be offended by someones opinion if based on experience not from google or the Sun.
Knowledge is power, but experience is everything
J
I have no formal knowledge about anything. I let life and my personal experiences give me the knowledge I require. When I want to know something I ask and when I need to know how to do something I find out how to do it.
I have passions about a lot of things in life which drives me to find out more.
But I wouldn't confess to having expert knowledge about anything and I always believe there is something about it you might never know, that you don't know yet that you don't know as you just haven't discovered it yet. If that makes sense.
So always happy to learn and discover more and keep my mind open to gain knowledge in many areas.
I have some formal qualifications and a brain full of what is often useless unless I am in some weird pub-quiz. Like knowing how most sweets are made. What the hell use is that since I don't work in the confectionery industry?
I really do love knowing how things are made and how they work. From engineering to food to languages.
I also love sharing info and often forget that people may not be as interested as I am in a particular subject. So apologies to all those that have had a brain-dump off me.
I guess I'm like Foxy: I know a little bit about lots of things, most of it useless unless you're pub quizzing. I dunno where I've accumulated most of it, I just have one of those memories that soaks things up like a sponge and organises stuff so I can access it later almost unbidden sometimes. I wish I could get rid of some of it, there's a lot of rubbish in my head I'd rather not have in there sometimes.
Stuff I could talk about would be literature, consider myself pretty well read. Lot of the classics, much originating in French, German, and Russian as well as English. Here again though I would struggle to go into too much depth with a lot of it. Languages, or the foundations of language something I'm into too, how English relates to French or Latin for instance. Also the way that we use language to interpret and structure our experience of the internal and external world and define our place in it, how what we imagine to be our innermost self is nothing but a linguistic construct, a story we tell ourselves to be analysed, played with and changed at will. Also history I guess, some military history, some from the more social and economic angle, working class history especially, ties in with an interest in ( especially Marxist ) sociological theories of politics and society also. Important to know how we got where we are today, and why. Without a proper sense of the past we are doomed to repeat it all too often, we don't seem to learn very well as a species sometimes, even when confronted with the obvious.
Overall I believe every member has knowledge in certain things.
That said I think the Site Admin's, Chat Ops and Mods have the knowledge too :thumbup:
Paddy
I don't really regard myself as an expert in anything but the following 3 topics I have studied most. 1) Acoustic Blues Guitar
2) Anatomy of Spiders
3) Greek and Roman Religion
Hmmm...a nice mix!
I never feel knowledgable enough to debate anything really, although my confidence in that area is growing as I age. I always feel that others know more than me. I personally hate references from google.. it is a dangerous place. If I do debate something I try to back it up with peer reviewed research but even then I tend to be over crtitical of methodology etc. I guess that's just due to the area I am in. I know quite a bit about psychology but more the biological basis behind behaviours rather than the social side of it.
Nice to see some replies to this question. I'm surprised how many people feel they aren't knowledgeable just because they don't have a formal qualification in something though.
I think we are all aware that there is always someone who knows a bit more about a subject than ourselves so are reluctant to say we are experts on any subject or even very knowledgeable, I love military history but there is a lot more I don't know about the subject than I do know despite having a passion for it and contantly watching Military channels, Discovery channels and the like.
Watching Mastermind for many years has taught me that even the experts on a subject still have a lot to learn about thier favourite topic.
Wouldn't it be wonderfull to know everything but at the same time wouldn't it be terrible not to be able to learn something new every day.
And certain 'bits' of history. I'd like to be more knowledgeable about lots of things though.
if you read this but thank you as you made me never want to go back to be taught in the institution that we call formal education and to gain the qualifications that I would be judged on.
