Written by Mathew Naismith
The following is an extract from a discussion between me
& another person on the subject of wisdom. The discussion started off querying a supposition
of who you would follow on a path, a person with a map which shows many dangers
along this path or a person who leads you along a much easier path without a
map. The question eventually came, “would
a wise person follow a person with a map showing many dangers ahead or would
they follow the other person along a much easier path without a map?” I chose
the map.
Hfactor
I'm thinking it was
the unharnessed intelligence using science and technology IE lack of wisdom
Wisdom is forged and
proven sound by time...that's kind of how we know it to be wise.
Me
Yes I agree Hfactor,
it's the way we used that wisdom once we found intelligence.
Is this a fault of
this wisdom in not being wise enough to stop this misuse in the first
place?
Wisdom to me stems
from philosophy & mysticism; philosophy gave us intelligence where
mysticism gave us this connection to the inner self/God. What actually went wrong?
Intelligence took over
from philosophy & religion/churches took over from mysticism, how wise is
wisdom?
Wisdom is only as good
as the philosophy & mysticism used, others would say it's only as good as
the knowledge & experiences one obtains, either way wisdom is flawed if we
are not wise enough to realise that wisdom is flawed in the first place by not
being aware of these flaws in the first place.
To me this stems back
to wisdom being at fault.
Yes I know this is
flimsy but plausible to me.
This is only a philosophical view of mine, it’s certainly
not gospel.
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