Missileer
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It sure came in handy for our founding fathers.Ted said:And finally on last note on the age-wisdom issue. Age and wisdom usually do go hand in hand.
No, there is always an exception to any rule.Ted said:But age does not guarantee wisdom.
You forgot to add a caveat "as they see it."Ted said:Secondly wisdom is picked up along the way but only by people who keep their eyes open, use their brains and able to disscern the facts in many events.
Ted said:Knowledge gives the person a broader basis and ability to place the facts in a frame-work.
The Intelligencia of early America and most of Europe thought witches were the cause of most problems that befell them. Knowledge has to be qualified as proven by imperical data, not by theoretical presented as fact.
Ted said:Knowledge does not make one wise, but it sure helps a bit. The way I interpreted Chief remark was that my words were "rambling" so that I must be a kid. It made me a bit itchy, just like your remark that wisdom comes from "life in the real world". Are you suggesting that because we have a different view I live in fairy-land?
A little knowledge doesn't hurt anyone as long as it is tempered by the fire of intelligence. As for living life in the real world and living in a fairy land, I mean approach life by using common sense. You may read in a book that fire is hot but until you have felt it yourself, you can't begin to imagine what is meant by hot. I'm not suggesting that you have a Pollyanna view of life, just that you need to realize that you will be experiencing something new every day of your life, some good, some bad, but all should be a learn by experience situation.
Ted said:My world, however different from yours, is my real world. Wisdom to me is also the capability to accept a differtent view.
That's great but make darn sure that you don't accept every point of view as being right simply because it is different. I mean cannibalism and other taboos are simply another point of view.
Ted said:I take the time to understand other people's view and when I don't understand them I try harder. I rarely qualify them as "things that need unrambling". I don't know if I am wise, but I know I try!
Let me make a suggestion you can dismiss or take to heart. If you're listening to a fascist preaching that the total annhialation of a certain race of people simply because they don't live by certain rules or are of a different tribe, you can always say "how very interesting" and keep what you really think about what is being discussed to yourself. That is being wise. You don't have to try very hard to realize right from wrong.