Faulty Intuition

Corn and Clouds

My intuition —
Got it wrong — but then,
“…I’m sorry…”.
I trust it once again.

Text: Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. Bjorn is hosting with the theme of punctuation in particular em-dashes and ellipses. I tried to use both above.

Photos: “Corn and Clouds”, above, and “Storm Clouds Over Cemetery”, below. Taken near Rensselaer, Indiana, prior to a meeting yesterday of the Prairie Writers Guild.

Storm Clouds Over Cemetery

Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

46 thoughts on “Faulty Intuition”

  2. Intuition… predilection… predisposition… many times I’ve been steered (and stirred) a-wrong. I like the form of your poem, Frank. And, as always, the photos.

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  20. It works. The punctuation adds, rather than subtracts.

    Sometime ago, my ideas about intuition were corrected by a friend. Of course, I was aware that some of our best ideas come to us intuitively. I knew Einstein had intuited his theories before working out the math to support them. But it took my friend to point out a further piece of the puzzle.

    First, we can arrive at ideas by reason alone, but those ideas are usually either trivial, or fantastic. Intuition gets blamed for producing fantastic ideas, and maybe it does now and then, but so does reasoning out things — a fact so often over-looked. But it’s why you get perfectly rational people denying the US put men on the moon.

    So I’ve come to believe the best we do is often to rely on intuition for our ideas, and reason combined with evidence to weed out the good from the bad.

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    1. I agree that intuition is very powerful. We may only use our reasoning ability to try to justify our intuition. The intuition comes first and then we start rationalizing. 🙂

      I’ve also heard that Einstein intuited his general or special relativity theory overnight, but he was thinking about it for many years. Intuition was needed to get the job done.

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  21. All in Life Relative
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      1. Interesting how we can escape some aspects of preconceived
        Notions of
        Classical
        Molasses
        Slow
        Evolution
        With Adaptation
        To Struggle
        And
        The Epigenetic
        Force of Change
        In Humans
        Too that
        And who in
        Unpacking other
        Wise DNA Potential
        Change Warrior
        And Drone
        Bee
        Humans
        Too as
        Loving Be..
        Yes.. A Science
        Revelation
        Too of
        A More
        Gentle
        Race
        Of
        Being Love
        Reborn Phoenix
        oF LoVE RiSinG
        DanCinG SinGinG
        From the
        Ashes
        Of
        Warrior
        Drones
        Empty
        Of LoVE..
        Thanks Frank
        A Gentle Race
        oF LoVE
        LiFE We
        Will
        To Be All
        iN As LoVE We Be..
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        Be Hum Tweet
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        LoVE iS WE..:)

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