You can't grasshopper. Just kidding. I see wisdom as having knowledge and knowing how to apply and use it. Its not critical, proud, judgemental. It treats all things and people with the same respect they deserve. It's knowing when to keep you mouth shut and just listen. It's not trying to prove anything to anybody. It's in your actions and it effects others around you by not even saying a word. It puts others, including our world before ourselves. It's something like that.
Originally posted by Philosophicus
I'm nothing special? Go and read the comments on my poems in the poetry&prose forum. Oh, and why would I be a published poet by VoicesNet who chooses only a few hundred poems out of 55000 submissions for publication, if I'm not special???? Why would my Haiku poems in my own language: Afrikaans be critiqued by the acclaimed South African writer, Francois Bloemhof as being unique and very original? Go to Poetry.com and see the reviews on my poems - people there actually think my poems are very good.Anyway, I doubt whether you are something special - you only criticise but never actually make the trouble to come up with your own unique philosophy as I did.
Philosophicus could you explain to me why is it that all your threads always revolve around you? You keep saying that you're a poet and that philosophy is only for those that are wise and you've got this knowledge of everything? I'm just curious as to why this keeps happening. Don't get me wrong. I'm not picking on you but I'm just curious as to why all the pointless attention?
Originally posted by WindDancer
Philosophicus could you explain to me why is it that all your threads always revolve around you? You keep saying that you're a poet and that philosophy is only for those that are wise and you've got this knowledge of everything? I'm just curious as to why this keeps happening. Don't get me wrong. I'm not picking on you but I'm just curious as to why all the pointless attention?
Firstly, I never said I was wise.
Secondly, I never said I've got this knowledge of everything. I merely post my philosophical theories.
Thirdly, philosophy really is only for the highly intelligent - the person of average intelligence is not remotely interested in philosophy because he doesn't think on an intellectual scale, not necesarily for the wise - wisdom is overrated and subjective anyway.
Lastly, you say: "why all the pointless attention?" the latter sentence means: why do I get all the pointless attention - don't ask me why I get attention. Or did you mean: why do I seek all the pointless attention? In the latter case, if you see it as pointless, then how come I attract YOUR attention? 😆
it is true that one can feel the pleasure of what one had achieved, over time... That one truly cherish oneself, and see oneself as a genius. But a genius is not based on that alone, as genius needs to be proven, if one wants to have the title "genius"... you can't go around the world, or even the guinis book of record saying that you are a genius because you felt like one... that would be hilarious!! 😂
Philosophicus originally posted
Firstly, I never said I was wise. Secondly, I never said I've got this knowledge of everything. I merely post my philosophical theories.
No, but you continue to promote yourself as a genius on almost every (if not every) thread in which you participate.
Thirdly, philosophy really is only for the highly intelligent - the person of average intelligence is not remotely interested in philosophy because he doesn't think on an intellectual scale, not necesarily for the wise - wisdom is overrated and subjective anyway.
In University one of my good friends took philosophy with me. He was a good guy, but I would not be insulting him if I were to say that he was nearly as dumb as a wood post (he would be the first to admit to his ridiculously pathetic academic achievements) yet he got an 89 in his first philosophy class. He continued to take philosophy classes and amazed me with his marks. I asked him how he did so well and he responded, " I just take these classes to boost my average, you don't have to be smart, you just have to tell each prof what they want to hear and be complexly vague about it."
Wisdom isn't over rated either, is applying the sum of your knowledge. Actually I think this world could do with a little more wisdom.
Lastly, you say: "why all the pointless attention?" the latter sentence means: why do I get all the pointless attention - don't ask me why I get attention. Or did you mean: why do I seek all the pointless attention? In the latter case, if you see it as pointless, then how come I attract YOUR attention?
You deflected her question there with a quick quip. Why the desire for all the attention (I'll leave out the pointless)? Are you trying to prove something to the world, to yourself or are you even aware that it is happening?
Kharma: "You deflected her question there with a quick quip. Why the desire for all the attention (I'll leave out the pointless)? Are you trying to prove something to the world, to yourself or are you even aware that it is happening?"
I really have no desire for attention, nor do I want to prove anything, but my endeavor to philosophise.