Get Wisdom - but what is it?

Thursday, March 27, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

Wisdom, it seems to me, is applied knowledge, skillful living. It is embracing truth as a lifestyle not just intellectually. The problem is in the sorting out of the incredible supply of information we receive in order to get at truth, and in particular, unchanging truth. Many of the “truths” I learned in school seem not to be truths at all. I am not suggesting anyone was dishonest in my education, just that they were wrong about how things work. Primarily that has to do with advances in research but it could be that we just have to admit that we can’t know everything with the degree of certainty we believe we can. There are certain propositions we state as categorical truths today that we find later to be not as clear as we thought at the time. Read the rest of this entry »

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