Spiritual & Philosophical wisdom

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  1. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    This one seems arguable. I for one gained wisdom partly by taking notice of the reports of others. Wisdom grows faster by expanding knowledge. Knowledge expands by taking notice of other peoples insights.

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    Behind every stack of books there's a flood of knowledge

    Hardly anyone is wise from the start. People become wise(r) during life through experiences and learning
     
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  2. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    Lol I was thinking of this exact quote!

    Pure wisdom.
     
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  3. guerillabedlam

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    It's also relevant to Computer Coding. Utilizing a pre-existing API or framework which addresses a particular problem or structure in code can save a bunch of time and headache.
     
  4. Astray

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    Exactly. That is how the wise understand by themselves.
     
  5. Deidre

    Deidre Follow thy heart

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    ''There is always some madness in love, but there is also some reason in madness." - Friedrich Neitzsche
     
  6. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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  8. The Imaginary Being

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    Probability of anything happening in the universe, with certainty, depend on the universes infinite capacity

    If space is infinite, everything imaginable is certain

    I don’t believe they’ve proved the same inverse is infinite though lol.
     
  9. Monkey Boy

    Monkey Boy Senior Member

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    "You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside." Wayne Dyer
     
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  10. guerillabedlam

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    Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
    -Ludwig Wittgenstein
     
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    there are no certainties, only independent observability, that some things happen more often then others, and some things happen more often when other things happen first.
    nor does a universe have to be provably infinite for infinite possibilities to exist. nor for anything to have to be known in order to. nor for them to owe anything to what anyone tells anyone.

    certainty is a lets pretend that humans invent to make their egos feel good.
    there are probabilities and improbabilities 'close enough for government work' as the old saying goes,
    but there's that other old saying: 'close is no cigar'

    when you tell someone else what to pretend, you are robbing them of their own imagination, and their own imagination is what makes them human.
    we would be much better off, live in a happier, safer and saner world, if everyone made up their own beliefs, AND never tried to tell anyone else to believe the same things.

    now there ARE other things that are universal, precisely because they do not depend upon belief, but because things work the way they do.
    logic, consideration and honesty, for example, and that while a universal wonder of strangeness appears, and i believe, to exist,
    there is no observable requirement for it to be personified.

    not having to be, never equals can't. converse of anything can, though nothing has to.

    and one more weee bit: if you imagine you are imagining the same thing as everyone or most everyone else,
    well is it even possible for everyone to imagine the same exact things, even if they were trying to?
     
  12. Perhaps the purest and deepest form of love is having someone making du'a for you, without you ever knowing.
     
  13. McFuddy

    McFuddy Visitor

    And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
     
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  14. McFuddy

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    Um. Morbid today eh?
     
  15. Asmodean

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  16. one of my favorites --> Matthew 11:28
     
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  17. guerillabedlam

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