Let my opinions speak for themselves. If you get the impression that they don't add up you've got a fairly good take on what I'm about....
If it wasn't for the fact that this is an ongoing process I'd be truly screwed.
Tue 27 Oct, 2009 08:53 am - As I see it, the best way to guard against self-delusion is to constantly challenge your own concepts, and your own understanding of them.
But in a way, all concepts are self-delusion, so perhaps... (view)
Mon 26 Oct, 2009 05:30 pm - I am saying that we are unable to gather wisdom from soley the speech of someone else.
Seems to me there is always a process of experiencing and testing that follows our becoming inspired by the... (view)
Mon 26 Oct, 2009 02:14 pm - An animal keeps away from the highway when traffic is heavey because it's instinctive fear of the unknown, loud and scary compels it to do so.
It is an instinctive reaction, and I do not... (view)
Mon 26 Oct, 2009 09:18 am - Francis. An animal knows it is perilous to cross a highway at rush hour. There is a difference between instinctive reactions and reflections and true wisdom. Both may be useful to us.
Vikorr, I... (view)
Sun 25 Oct, 2009 08:08 pm -
[quote]If this were true,knowledge would be very individual and not shared.
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Knowledge is shared. We all know this.
But if you had said "wisdom would be very individual and... (view)
Sun 25 Oct, 2009 07:18 pm - Yes, when it comes to real wisdom, you cannot learn it -from words.
Thats all I'm saying.
Experience teaches you wisdom.
And when you read "words of wisdom", they ressonate... (view)
Sun 25 Oct, 2009 06:48 pm - contrex
The meaning of words is continously revised and altered by all now living people. Many words mean different things today than they did 50 years ago...
Do you think that you are not... (view)
Sun 25 Oct, 2009 03:58 pm - Btw.... "words of wisdom"... curious phrase..
Can wisdom come in words? Or is it rather that we can see the wisdom behind it if we already have the wisdom in ourselves? (view)
Sun 25 Oct, 2009 03:56 pm - Words of wisdom...
It is my impression that wisdom cannot come in words. Words are limited to conveying knowledge, and if you already possess the wisdom that inspired this knowledge to be written... (view)
