03-27-2011, 12:00 AM
Yesterday a theme came up. Its just a brief story but illustrates a point. A friend I travel with by taxi has this habit, he wants to only take 'legit' taxis. Those who are registered and licensed, rather then make shift ones who have no meter and just stick the taxi sign on top of their car until they pick up a passenger then they take it down so cops don't see. My friend contends that such people are cons and will over charge etc, especially a westerner.
Well, yesterday I was hailing a taxi, waited a few minutes, I was alone but was headed to pick up this friend. I saw a make shift taxi coming along and he honked at me indicating he was free for hire. I knew my friend was against this kind of vehicle but figured I could explain to him later why I chose this one. I sensed a good energy from him and since my friend was not with me, I decided to lean into the window to discuss price based on where I was goign. I have been that distance many times before so I know the fair cost, and he quoted me the fair cost (sometimes even they don't know but this driver knew). I also mentioned to him we had to pick up the friend...it was not far off our path and again from prior experience the detour does not raise the cost, so when he agreed to pick the friend up at no extra charge, I knew this guy was decent and honest.
We swung by to get friend and at first he didn't recognize it was me, he just smiled and waved pretending to know who was motioning to him, lol. He expected me to be in a regular taxi plus the windows were tinted. Anyway, I got a good laugh over how he 'socially complied' with a smile and wave at whom he didn't recognize then strolled away a bit. I rolled the window down and said, "hey its me". So he got in and I explained to him the cost was going to be the same and I didn't want to wait for a legit cab, so I took this one. He understood my reasoning.
But it really wasn't reasoning, it was a choice, based on instinct feeling then knowing the fair cost of trip. A very minor choice mind you, but it illustrated that we can operate on spontaneous guidance rather then carry around rules to follow which in my friend's case he would have not spoken to the illegit taxi to begin with. Choices. Freewill rather then preprogramming.
Now a made up tale along the same lines...Say we are walking alone at night along a darkly lit deserted street and on one side of the street is a lady and on the other side is a big muscular black man, so we 'reason' the side with the lady is safer...the man could be a mugger or worse...but that's just rationale...in fact he turns out to be an Army Marine on leave, and the woman is a serial killer who preys on women alone at night, lol.If we don't operate from instincts (and also stalk power), we are forced to use only rational which is not as reliable as it seems, it may have a ratio of predictability but that's just a ratio (percentage..statistic), not a guarantee.
Well, yesterday I was hailing a taxi, waited a few minutes, I was alone but was headed to pick up this friend. I saw a make shift taxi coming along and he honked at me indicating he was free for hire. I knew my friend was against this kind of vehicle but figured I could explain to him later why I chose this one. I sensed a good energy from him and since my friend was not with me, I decided to lean into the window to discuss price based on where I was goign. I have been that distance many times before so I know the fair cost, and he quoted me the fair cost (sometimes even they don't know but this driver knew). I also mentioned to him we had to pick up the friend...it was not far off our path and again from prior experience the detour does not raise the cost, so when he agreed to pick the friend up at no extra charge, I knew this guy was decent and honest.
We swung by to get friend and at first he didn't recognize it was me, he just smiled and waved pretending to know who was motioning to him, lol. He expected me to be in a regular taxi plus the windows were tinted. Anyway, I got a good laugh over how he 'socially complied' with a smile and wave at whom he didn't recognize then strolled away a bit. I rolled the window down and said, "hey its me". So he got in and I explained to him the cost was going to be the same and I didn't want to wait for a legit cab, so I took this one. He understood my reasoning.
But it really wasn't reasoning, it was a choice, based on instinct feeling then knowing the fair cost of trip. A very minor choice mind you, but it illustrated that we can operate on spontaneous guidance rather then carry around rules to follow which in my friend's case he would have not spoken to the illegit taxi to begin with. Choices. Freewill rather then preprogramming.
Now a made up tale along the same lines...Say we are walking alone at night along a darkly lit deserted street and on one side of the street is a lady and on the other side is a big muscular black man, so we 'reason' the side with the lady is safer...the man could be a mugger or worse...but that's just rationale...in fact he turns out to be an Army Marine on leave, and the woman is a serial killer who preys on women alone at night, lol.If we don't operate from instincts (and also stalk power), we are forced to use only rational which is not as reliable as it seems, it may have a ratio of predictability but that's just a ratio (percentage..statistic), not a guarantee.