wisdom stephen pain spiraling around the sterile fumes of the nitrous oxide as the needle is inserted into the arm and the tingle spreads from my toes curling up and over my flimsy head making the whole world black until the gauze is put into my mouth and I stagger heavily from the chair... 990219 ... a-team the ultimate pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Jishin o motte jinsei tsuyoku ikite ikinasai. Nanchatte. 990220 ... ceorl often heard, seldom heeded 990419 ... megan what you gain in retrospect to events in your life that go wrong. its hard to gain wisdom from others, unless its wisdom of educational knowledge, wisdom about life has to be learned through experience. 991029 ... clundicus Four years ago... No, it was yesterday. Today I... No, that wasn't me. Sometimes I... No, I don't. 991202 ... lotusflower our "buddha-ness" comes from this. 000213 ... Free To know your self is the beginning of wisdom. 000408 ... mungo Kathy tells me that wisdom is not all it is cracked up to be. Kathy is cracked up. Age does not give you wisdom. 000514 ... Morgan Le Fay Wisdom not only comes from others, but from within the depths of our souls. 000917 ... sabbie and she was in the crazy house and she'd laugh and laugh and laugh and she'd scream and cry whenever she felt like it and tear her hair out in great clumps whenever she felt the need she wouldn't wear clothes during the day, running around naked in the sunshine on the lawn, and she refused to eat ever. they labeled her 'crazy' and tied her down but i thought her wisdom incarnate 010315 ... mikey ive been labeled wise been called wise. its such a wonderful compliment it makes me smile in my soul. i wish within myself i could always live up to it. 010315 ... aeiou truly comes with age 010425 ... silentbob you and i are like when fire and the ocean floor collide 010917 ... Torus Is what you get when you burn off accumulated knowledge by direct experience. Wisdom is married to Understanding. In a Flash, you are aware of the nature of a situation. Being wise means moving with the way things actually are, and not superimposing upon them your biases. Wisdom comes with openness, openess can come with age. Socrates was right when he said "true knowledge (wisdom) comes from knowing that you know nothing" Peace out. 010917 ... silentbob all i know is that i dont know all i know is that i dont know nothin 010917 ... Inanna Some people speak from experience, and other people don't speak from experience. 010917 ... -{::EphemeralArcs::}- A fool once told me wisdom is what you know from experience, and intelligence your ability to adapt. Knowing a fool could be wise was wisdom enough for me. 030224 ... jester ....................................... .............888888888888.............. ..........888888..88..888888........... ........8888......88......8888......... .......8888.......88.......8888........ .......8888.....888888.....8888........ .......8888...88..88..898...8888........ ........888888....88.....88888......... ..........88888...88...88888........... .............888888888888.............. ....................................... 030321 ... User24 join the cause for wonky peace, eh jester? 030731 ... ishot50cent How could a fool have wisdom, if he had wisdom he wouldnt be a fool, the only thing a fool would have is wisdom in experience of being a fool, therefore the unexperienced fool is not wise at all which makes you a wise-ass knowing nothing 030914 ... oldephebe loathes shoddily proffered cognitive ill a very nice piece of deconstruction, unraveling a propounded syllogisms frayed thread - *oldephebe doffs oldschool Phillies cap* ... 030914 ... oldephebe it should say oldephebe loathes shoddily proffered cognitive illusions ... *oldephebe sheathes his didactic and by extension soporific (yea reely sleep inducing) asides* 030914 ... crimson I want to cut out the Best Years of My Life and go straight to being wise and experienced, elderly. I would be calm and wrinkled, I would know exactly what I thought and wanted and would have patience. I would know about many many beautiful and painful THINGS. But I suppose all of that is achieved by living so long. You can't just skip to it. 030915 ... oldephebe but sometimes we can attain wisdom without standing in it's searing rain, without waiting until all our potential is exanguinated by years of folly..this knowledge is there for us, it is waiting for us..the true knowledge of ourselves and our origins, our truer natures, and it is just waiting for us to ccome back home to envelope us in its loving embrace..more to come.. ... 030918 ... speculum guy poots 031203 ... phil "Whoever told you that's a dumbshit!" 031204 ... oldephebe "Wisdom is not so much what you say..it's how you re-act or respond or not respond in this hurly burly hoax that is at least MY life.." oldephebe So how much wisdom can i really have if i spend so much time running my mouth? Eh? 031204 ... zanna wisdom can often times be found easier by stooping rather than soaring. 040323 ... oE Amen. 040323 ... lululamyland "We now dwell on the ground of avaivartika, but we cannot comprehend this matter, World Honored One, and so such world systems would be limitless and boundless." 040612 ... dafremen We must choose our idols carefully, in anticipation of our tendency to emulate them. 040612 ... Blink wisdom, already being called nothing. But: wisdom = nothing and nothing = wisdom? I don't think so, am I thinking nothing? Maybe, but still; if we know nothing can exist then we can call that wisdom, we can make distinctions can we? If we can, then wisdom is not nothing, but can be nothing, just like nothing can be wisdom... wisdom = logic? knowing how to act and react = wisdom or can be wisdom? 040618 ... Finger to the Moon... 040618 ... kx21 iLink: Finger_and_Moon 040618 ... lacunas coil I love beauty, does that make me wise? 040618 ... kx21 * Parallel_sayings * Beauty = Star Shit = ? 040618 ... Finger The_Beast_In_Freedom_and_Democracy 040618 ... Moon to the The_Beauty_of_Freedom_and_Democracy... 040618 ... Moon to The_Beauty_of_Freedom_and_Democracy... 040618 ... Finger The_Saudi_'puzzle' 040618 ... Moon to the Live_systematic_terrorist_acts_on_Earth 040618 ... kx21 How can one stop Finger(s) "Pointing" to an "evil" Moon? 040618 ... . iLink: The_beheading_of_American 040618 ... Finger kx21_must_die_coalition 040618 ... Moon Ten_Supreme_Hearts_rule_the_World 040618 ... maxell "He attacked me so I went right at his throat." Said one combatant of his legendary opportunistic inversion of his advesaries stratagem in the commercial gladitorial arena. I used my opponents attempts to malign my character and thereby position his company, his reputation in direct polar opposition to the libelous caricature he'd erected of me, I used his stratagems against him and now I have more than just market niche. I 've parlayed the game he's played into amping up my own distinctiveness and garnering market share. The combatants were Peale and Barnum. 040712 ... :) The "M" of Game_Theory... 040712 ... To be Exact The_Golden_Rule 040712 ... Ant The ability to understand people for who they are, and where they come from. 041020 ... Ant The ability to understand people for who they are, and where they come from. 041020 ... fearmilk.org stoney wisdom completed from clutter in the eyes of wisdom only through the years of shit 041223 ... oldephebe is learning that less is more silence is strength i fed my advesaries furnace of petty tyrannies by allowing them to see my pain, the pain that i allowed them to create so i guess i have book knowledge but any bright 14year old can read most of the books i've read i have no wisdom and i still feel that despite all of my expeditions into the christ mindset and the teachings of the great buddha, the discipline and compassion of allah and the timeless wisdom of the torah, i am bankrupt as a man...as a man i am bankrupt...i am as empty and lost and clinging by a tether to a life to a life that is little more than reactionary - a life that is little more than this meandering thinning stream of withering possibilities and potential. When a man reaches a certain age...potential is a word that should not be invoked...potential should be the summit that he has reached not some glorious peak that crests above the clouds. So...In the words of Sean Colbin I still think, no i mean i KNOW that there is a piece in me that God left out. It's just as simple as some neuro-chemical constituent or artifact that manifests a characteristic of some bi-polar or profoundly depressive state. There are, and there have always been so few things, so few people that touch me, that make me feel, FEEL alive. One of them was the feel of cold brass in my hands, warmed and animated by my breath by my soul as I made the inert calligraphy on the page come alive. It was the pursuit of a truth, an ensemble and it's leaders giving birth to our individual and collective truth of a compositon. To sit in a dimly lit bar, or with an orchestra or concert band or jazz combo whether your 17 or 27 (after my late twenties I had to give up my horn because of physical limitations) to stand before a choir or band and shape the very notes as they leave the mouth or horn or bow, it is a wondrous thing, to create, to guide to grow together, to let the composition and your soul and others near virtuoso musicianship be the arbiter of that truth...but I guess the final arbiter is the audience. My life is a mendering stream much like this blathe and most of my self-indulgant contributions to bl a th er There is something in the book Siddhartha that talks about simply sitting by the water and letting that be your teacher, your peace, to let go of all the things that make one suffer and see things as they really are. We are part of a continuum the old man says as he ferrys the travelers back and forth across the river. Whatever god HAS left out, maybe I can find it, maybe I can let HIM BECOME the things that plugs the hole and finishes me, the thing that completes me. I dunno blather Does that sound like wisdom to any of you? It's just rhetorical, not a please pitty me and my not quite so pretty words. Maybe wisdom is just realizing that whatever comes from ME is crap and whatever comes fromt he christ or buddha or rabbinical mind is the manna that will sustain me, even allow me to thrive as i learn to keep silent and listen as the old man on the ferry did. ... 050423 ... RIC er.... don't you mean you're ineffable sense of incompleteness, the thing you're attributing to an omnipotent all knowing and infallible god...is NOT simply the result or manifestation of some neuro-chemical imbalance....? . . . 050423 ... phil Even after I have forgotten about it I still find them fulfilling. 050919 ... Ptolemy DCLVIII Prudence. Discernment. Knowing when to hold on and when to let go. 061115 ... 1 ~ The Magician I try this and I try that to enlarge my mental hat, for, to exist, what a dilemma! So I strive for this diploma, let these studies add dimension, ... all the things I cannot mention ... (Solipsism? Or pretension?) 061227 ... sappho "the only wisdom one truly has is knowing he knows nothing." it is unwise to believe there is fulfillment of knowledge, once we believe we have attained it, we undo what wisdom we once had. 061227 ... H. L. Mencken "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." 081130 ... flowerock A beautiful old woman shared wisdom with us today. She shared energy and healing. She took some of our toxic energy and processed it out through herself. She did this freely and happily. She laughed and Belched(belched out the toxic energy) and smiled. Amazing. Eat_sunshine and vegetable soup. Veggies from the ground. Be grateful. So refreshing. Inspiring. She was vibrant. 141005 ... unhinged its funny how many people bite the hand that feeds them if some action leads to suffering, eliminating the action will stop the suffering 160107 ... . eliminate birth? I think i have to think it out again 160202 what's it to you? who go blather from