Week 5: Lateral Thinking

Lateral vs Literal Thoughts
So, we all live in a closed society whereby a compliment can turn out to be a sexual harassment.

In a nutshell, this is literal society.

How about, a compliment turns out to be either a sexual harassment or probably a flattery or perhaps, a sign where you have to improvise to either flaunt it or remove it.

This is lateral thinking.


Nothing is good or bad, thinking makes it so as quoted by William Shakespear. But how we pass judgement can change a criticism into a opportunity.

That quote alone is one whole of a phrase but this applies to everything.

Now to lateral thinking.

Morality strikes into a person's ideology. Be it literal or lateral, thoughts comes to either judge or not to. Solving problems arises when we think lateral whilst literal is.....rather a easy way to bug out of the issue and carry on without solving or producing more or less no solution.

So lets be subjective - faiths and religion

What is the difference between the two? Are they really similar or perhaps a two different ideals to describe beliefs.

Examples would be of a Catholic to a  Protestant Christian(as a whole). Each of their doctrine presents different practices but all ends up in the same beliefs.

The approach is different but let us contradict the faithful and the strongly intellectual ones(ironically, I myself is a Christian).

Science states that life before humans were dinosaurs but beliefs(note that I'm not using faith or religious views for the sake of atheist or agnostics) states that God existed before the universe was born. Hence, God could've rode a velociraptor.

As such, how would this untangle such logic?

Well, lets start of with this gestalt theraphy.

What we see here is either a chalice or two faces facing each other. Now, how does this contrast to its purpose?

So it all now lies to how we perceive things and infact, has anyone questioned if we are really living physically or virtually now that we know our brains can trick us into believing? We might be thinking that God could be a a programmer and he is simulating things with a ultramegagigaterra-computer.


So now, what comes in is lateral thinking,

So maybe perhaps science and logic is bound to our dimension. Presently scientist has proven that we are bound by physical,chemical,biological and name other more in the branches of science.

In contradiction, if then the universe is getting old, how did the universe then was born?

On the other hand, human mind is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to small to comprehend such thoughts, let alone the understanding of God. Perhaps God did ride a velociraptor but does that mean we came from the sea and evolved to two legged creatures?

So in conclusion, does it matter?

Lateral thinking does break the boundaries of knowledge and allows us to think outside the box. Therefore, lateral thinking is for the curious.

So now, is which is better: Be wise or be smart? Both? but no one can be both, I'm afraid.