Aut disce, aut discede, manet sors tertia caedi

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Well, the time has come for a self-administered beating.

http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/620572.html

Was bad enough. But then I followed it up with this:

http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/624814.html

Now, thanks to this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8295466/WikiLeaks-cables-show-Government-was-playing-false-over-Lockerbie-bomber.html

I have to admit I've got a lot of egg on my face. I'm going to ask htpcl 's possum to lick it off me. Have any of the rest of the folk on here got things that upon reflection, or with subsequent information, wished they hadn't written; or positions they wish they hadn't backed?

Comments

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Please expand - what's your point?

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

If we're to regret having held positions and views in the past then we'd probably quit having an opinion at some point. So I prefer to rather be prepared to do mistakes in my judgment if that's the price to pay for searching and learning new things all the time, and getting my only two brain cells ticking in the process. So I don't regret being constantly wrong. What I'm scared of is to not become intellectually lazy and start taking things for granted without putting them to the test of my own skepticism.

And my possum loves egg!

[anadinboy.livejournal.com]

ive never been wrong because i watch the right films. Soylent Green, Zardoz, south park etc

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Plenty of times. I've been wrong and I've sometimes said the wrong thing or ignorant things (not always the same thing but often the two are).

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself... as some of you may have noticed.