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The immediate thought here, as soon as I read this, was that "If the wise man admits he knows nothing, then is there true wisdom that I can impart?". Just a musing there.Vern5 said:
My actual thought is that there are many things that do not matter, yet are fought over viciously. You should determine for yourself what those things are in your life before bludgeoning another over the head.
Exactly what I was going to say, brother XD And it's so true.Vern5 said:
Other than that, "I think, therefore I am" is pretty reassuring.
Plus the whole ending speech from Evangelion is always nice *Spoilers*
Two of my favorites that have treated me well in life.
It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
Also I think this is fitting for the constant Apocalypse criers
Do not waste time questioning when the end will arrive, for when the end arrives there will be no question. (I forgot who said that... could be somewhere in the bible or something...)
It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
Also I think this is fitting for the constant Apocalypse criers
Do not waste time questioning when the end will arrive, for when the end arrives there will be no question. (I forgot who said that... could be somewhere in the bible or something...)
"I walked a mile with pleasure,
she chattered all the way.
I was left none the wiser
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with sorrow,
and ne'er a word said she.
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when sorrow walked with me."
"When a man is called upon to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, Beethoven composed music, and Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say 'Here lived a street sweeper who did his job well.'"
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
she chattered all the way.
I was left none the wiser
for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with sorrow,
and ne'er a word said she.
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when sorrow walked with me."
"When a man is called upon to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, Beethoven composed music, and Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say 'Here lived a street sweeper who did his job well.'"
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
If all knowledge could be quantified, then the oldest and wisest of us would still know, relatively, nothing. Its like how an experienced Biochemist might go to a seminar on linguistic history and know nothing. For everything we learn, there is always more to discover.FalloutJack said:
Centuries ago, everyone knew the world was flat or that the sun revolved around the Earth. We are only fooling ourselves when we think we have found all that there is to discover. Absolute knowledge only exists to either be disproven or eventually broken either by experimentation or invention.
Ah, so then you are aware of that strange separation of the world and how we perceive it. It's funny though, isn't it? Here we have all the accrued knowledge of the world, life, the universe, and everything...and yet no matter what it is we discover...it holds only true for man's perception and no other.Vern5 said:
It was a thought that occurred to me one day during a math class in which Imaginary Numbers came into play. Imaginary Numbers...yet math is suppose to be a precise and logical thing, even though discreet mathematics is wielded more like a philosophy in some way. From there, I had to realize that while all of math and science and discovery appears to make sense and fit a pattern, it is a pattern that we ourselves wove for that purpose, and not because the universe necessarily agreed with us.
The naming of things and the creation of things... Every word and every number ever imagined, written, or spoken... They are only as firm as our grasp of them, a way to categorize existence to find our part in it. But it's an artificial construction in a 'real' world. A volcano is no less threatening if we call it one. It could have no name and still be just as dangerous.
I just always found it funny how it could seem as though we created the universe (or the perception of the universe AS a universe), but nobody TOLD the universe this, so what will happen when we're gone?
i just thought that uo on the spot, just like this sentence im writing here. Now look at yourself, now back at me, now im in the Canadian mountains with only a towel on, but im still warm, now look left, now back at me, im in a Norwegian bathhouse, now lok up, down, and look at yourself now back at me, your now noticing im making an old spice joke, and that im thinking up about it on the spot, to find out look at your wife/girlfried/dog/porn now back at me, yes i am making this oldspice joke, with a brain anything is possible!sgt. soap mctavish said:
im on a boat.
motha fucka.
[/oldspice joke]
[/lonely island joke]
