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IS WISDOM A GOOD THING?
Mostly a Direct Excerpt from the Book:
I personally believe that wisdom is always a good thing. It is
always good for each of us to know the truth. There are some
cautions in this chapter though, about dealing with others regarding
truth. But, first, a thought from the past on what another said
about having wisdom.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed
man is king.”
– This is credited to Desiderius Erasmus's in
his Adagia, a collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, about the year
1500. There is some thought though that this statement existed in
even earlier writings or conversations by others.
But yes,
the above seems to say that if a person has more wisdom than those
around them, the person is king. But of course, that might be in the
real sense or the sense of personal intelligence and wisdom. It does
not mean that the wisest person will become the ruler. And so, while
wisdom, personally, is always a good thing since it is good to know
the real truth, there should be some cautions given on how we can
share it. Below are some examples of sharing wisdom that come from
the humor joke circuit, and some of these situations were not
written first by me. In most cases, I do not know the original
author:
Wife: “Do I look fat in this dress?”
Husband:
“Am I a good provider?”
Patient to Doctor: “How am I doing
doctor? Will I live a long life?”
Serf in a Kingdom: “Why
should I bow to the King? Has he done something good?”
Boss
to Prospective Employee: “What is your worst problem?”
Interviewee: “I am honest”
Boss: “I do not see honesty as a
problem”
Interviewee: “I just really do not care what you think.”
Hopefully as you can see by the above, while having wisdom
personally is always a good thing, sharing that wisdom can be
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Book Logic, Science, God, and Human Intelligence
In this book I tried to explore how far Human
Intelligence has come, and how far logic can take us beyond
that. And my approach was with an open mind trying to be
free from at least the normal ideologies that surround us
daily. What I found surprised me. Not the answer ... but
that many times we are simply asking the wrong questions. We
know now more than we used to. Science has gone far. We know
a bit about Science and the Universe even though there is
much more to know. Regardless of what we believe and wish to
believe, we should at least get our thinking and our
discussions into the 21st century. Some of the old arguments
on all sides no longer seem to make sense, at least to me,
when we view them with our 21st century logic. Is this book
meant to convince you of anything? No. That would make it
just another ideology. The purpose is to do much the
opposite ... to get the reader to think about things that
perhaps they never thought about before, but armed with at
least human intelligence. And then... the new thinking may
surprise you ... as it also surprised me at times. |
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