Thoughts On...

Pilosophy; the love of wisdom

Litereally the translation of the Greek word of it's origin. Home of the greats like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Who LITERALY without we'd still be living in the bronze age. Air conditioning would be opening a window, heating? throw a log on the fire. 

Later, Philosophy went metaphysical (well always was) in the questions of Who,What,Why, (Where, When, With, Wonder...'W' seems to be Philosophies mistress lol) with the likes of Pascal, Kirkegaard, Kant, Nietzsche in trying to look deep into ones soul, some eyes looked back warmly...others in abysmal coldness. 

Now were ALL philosphers on Twitter, FaceBook, and [insert social media platorm here] with our perfect views (opinions) of reality. Launching catapults of Parroted knowlege at each other in the safety of our own homes. 

So...HAVE I BORED YOU YET?!?!?

That's the funny thing, something so valuable has become so un-cool (yep, showed my age hipsters) so mis-understood. 

So... First question: How many Know what Wisdom is? 

Is wisdom...

A: A tooth?

B: Intellect?

C: A Rapper?

D: Metaphysical understanding of a subject/object/ideal to a spiritual level of Knowlege in one's self leading to an examined life worth living?

E: 42 (if your a Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy fan)

F: None of the Above (If your a Nihilist) 

G: All of the above

And the answer IS: G

But how many of you would have said B if i didn't give you multiple choice (the only reason i graduated...thanking the education system for dumbing down tests) Intellect? How many think wisdom is 'smarts', 'brains', 'reason', 'logic'. well, it IS. but also so very much more. 

In finding a wonderful twitterpatted friend here (yeah you know who you are) i have rediscovered the 'love of wisdom'. Many of my conversations with this person reveal just as much to me as to they. Thats wisdom, always learning for yourself even when teaching others. In our conversation, I pointed out that 'Intelligence is the cold analytical fingers that creates smart phones and self driving cars for our ease and convienece. Wisdom is the understanding that such devices remove the ability to reason in having to have a device tell you when to get a haircut or lose all social, physical interaction. Or lose the sense of direction (yup, many can't even find North anymore). Intelligence is analytics in a cold secular world of easy convienece (they used to put Cocaine in Coke-a-Cola...that how it got it's name...now they've replaced it with raw sugar...just as addicting)

Wisdom is the internal spiritual understanding, learning from mistakes and the ability to understand and get an idea for yourself. 

Some of the greatest people alive or have lived fully understand wisdom that the more you have, the less you know. Lao-Tzu is one the greatest chinese Philosophers ever and he led the simplest of lives, Diogenes lived in a barrel with the dogs, Socrates literaly survived on his freinds charity, Pascal was bed-ridden most his life yet is one of mathamatics greats. All, and many more accepted the humbleness of life that you'll never know everything but enjoy in learning what you can. 

So why the soapbox pontification? 

Wisdom to me is the key to my happiness. and learning from some of the greats then (and here) returns value to my life. In thye words of Shakesphere 'To thyne own self be true' makes sense to me. So i'm also going to follow in the footsteps of writting down my thoughts on subects i feel important in my life. Pascal, Kirkegaard...awww hell ALL of them kept journals in one form or another Even the Great Solomon from the Bible who i view as the first Philosopher. All in an understanding that putting words down to get a better understanding for oneself (and possibly giving others something to think about) was crucial. 

So I'm Going to start keeping 'Thoughts' on subjects here that help identify me to myself. 

To all that read this, I truly wish for serenity and peace in your lives. Freindships galore and many many warm loving hugs. Love