What is wisdom?

[Cain]

Why do we always have breakdown everything to bullshit. Sure, it may often be true, but it's a boring, depressing, and nonproductive way of handleing things.

Maybe that's why Discordians aren't really known for doing stuff.

Speak for yourself, asshole.  I'm off doing plenty of stuff.

Get your facts straight before running your mouth off.  Again.

I believe you, but can I ask what?

Many people come here, see what's goin' on, and ask "So, what do I do?

Many times forum members will say "figure it out for yourself," but that's also a fantastically sneaky way of saying "I don't know."

Not everyone can (or rather should) make Podcast.

1. What I work as, or what I do O:MFwise?  Former is easy.  I work at a think tank funded by a very well known group of industrialists and ex heads of state, with good links to the FBI and MI5, among the more 'open' policy creation departments, such as State, the UK Home Office (now Security and Policing).  Officially I'm charged with ways of defending the Empire's greatest asset, black gold, from the smudgy people it really belongs to.  However, I am often contracted out for other related work.

The latter though, you can get stuffed.  I ain't breathing a word.  I do lots of other stuff, involving weedkiller to paranoids worried about electricity lines, but thats purely out of work time and for my own amusement.

2. And we tell them what to check out and read.

3. Or it means "figure it out for yourself".  This isn't the Army.  If you want to take orders all day and cause chaos, go work at the Pentagon.  Once I start telling someone, who I don't know and whose circumstances differ from mine what is best for them, then I am no better than a Gray.  I thought you would have at least realized that by now.

4. No-one, bar you, suggested they should, you little creep.

[AFK]

Why do we always have breakdown everything to bullshit. Sure, it may often be true, but it's a boring, depressing, and nonproductive way of handleing things.

Maybe that's why Discordians aren't really known for doing stuff.

Oh my, what an overly-generalized point-of-view you have there.  You would make a great painter with those broad strokes. 

[B_M_W]

Wisdom, in here motherfucker? You're talking to the wrong asshats.

And THIS is why I didn't post it here.

[East Coast Hustle]

meh. I dunno.

he said something racially ignorant, was called out, apologized, and hasn't repeated the behavior. There IS a difference between just being an ignorant jackass who shoots off at the mouth and being a premeditated racist.

On the other hand, he also keeps jamming his dick in the meatgrinder, Horab-style, in an effort to "get" some of us (me, in particular).  Now he's telling us how to be REALLY REAL Discordians.

He's a fucking moron.

Yeah, we're pretty much in agreement on that.

[Darth Cupcake]

meh. I dunno.

he said something racially ignorant, was called out, apologized, and hasn't repeated the behavior. There IS a difference between just being an ignorant jackass who shoots off at the mouth and being a premeditated racist.

On the other hand, he also keeps jamming his dick in the meatgrinder, Horab-style, in an effort to "get" some of us (me, in particular).  Now he's telling us how to be REALLY REAL Discordians.

He's a fucking moron.

Yeah, we're pretty much in agreement on that.

REALLY REAL DISCORDIANS DO NOT AGREE

-DC
actually a cheap knock-off Discordian purchased on Canal Street from someone who can't speak English

[Triple Zero]

No, it isn't bullshit.  What we call "church art", The Machine™ calls "vandalism" and "felony mischief".

yup. i know some guys who do graffiti. they ask me for easily disposable media that fit in digital cameras, cause they still wanna upload their works anonymously to some gfti sites, but if they get caught, their houses get searched and any photo they have of any piece they may or may not have done is considered incriminating evidence.

apparently stickering is most illegal, at least unless it's for something commercial. srsly, you can plaster half the town with posters for some big hardcore techno party, which is still "not allowed" if you do it outside designated places, but at least the police won't come hunting you down with/like dogs the way they'll do if it's "just art".

police and technical research teams spend at least as much time investigating graffiti "criminals" as they do going after rapists.

Quit violating CowAss's right to live vicariously through your antics and then go somewhere else and claim credit for what YOU did.

- "c'mon grampa Cowass, tell us again about the time you were a Real Diskordjun!"
- "well boys, in that time we had a little thing called KYSM..F KJSY .. something like that, i never really understood what it meant, but did i tell you about the time i put LSD in teh water supply?"
- "wow grampa did that really happen?"
- "of course kiddo .. now listen .. it was early morning and i just came out of hassah-al-kabba's caves after a heavy night of orgying and teh drugz .. "

[Jasper]

Hey guys, thanks for discussing the OP and maturely ignoring any obvious trolls.

Fock 'eads.

[LMNO]

What!?  Thread jacks on PD.com?



That UNPOSSIBLE!

[P3nT4gR4m]

What!?  Thread jacks on PD.com?



That UNPOSSIBLE!

Actually it's hyperpossible*

*hyperpossible = 100% guaranteed to happen. The question is how many thousand times before the thread dies.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

this isn't a threadjack!

this is Cow Ass using this thread as a first-hand demonstration of what Wisdom really is!

[P3nT4gR4m]

this isn't a threadjack!

this is Cow Ass using this thread as a first-hand demonstration of what Wisdom really is!

Damn! An I sooooo missed that 

[Payne]

Now you know. CowAss is our saviour.

[Jasper]

What!?  Thread jacks on PD.com?

That UNPOSSIBLE!

I'd be a hypocrite to criticize for the threadjacking thing.  I just don't see why we stand for this shit from trolls.

I guess it's making me lose enthusiasm for the whole ranting/discussing formula.

[P3nT4gR4m]

What!?  Thread jacks on PD.com?

That UNPOSSIBLE!

I'd be a hypocrite to criticize for the threadjacking thing.  I just don't see why we stand for this shit from trolls.

I guess it's making me lose enthusiasm for the whole ranting/discussing formula.

I always figured that's the whole idea of trolls but for every troll threadjack there's loads of really sweet threads where everybody is just riffing off each other. Even if it aint deep and meaningful I usly find it entertaining.

[Jasper]

Buncha crap.

Wisdom is knowing when to punch a fucker, and when to wait for a better time.

That is all.

OP pretty much includes that.

"patience and the exercise of restraint"

"properly prioritizes--knows whats worth doing and whats not, and likewise what cannot or should not be done and what can and should (like realizing people can only change themselves)"

wisdom is that which allows you to save yourself


EDIT: maybe

Covers that too.

"foresight--the ability to anticipate and prevent rather than just reacting"

"nothing to prove--not control freaks, are humble self confident and sincere, as well as genuine"

prolly not even wise to define wisdom

ITT:toolbox

When did I ever claim to be wise?

Wisdom is the State of Being Urination, or of Being Urinated.

also, being "pissed," whether pissed drunk, pissed off or pissed on.

I Will Wiz Anything.

Ha.  Ahahaha.  Heh.  Die.

1) This wasn't about wisdom, this was about the characteristics that are found in wise people.

2) I found it interesting, but knew it wouldn't be appreciated here, which is why I didn't post it. I gave Felix permission to cross post because he took an interest in it as well.

1) My post was querying wisdom, with the crosspost as a supplement.

2)  Thanks for permission.

Just remembered a time I was working at a convenience store.  This cop came in and walked up to the counter with two cases of beer and stood in line.  He then looked at his shirt and said "oh shit I'm in uniform" and put the beer back.  He then asked me if we had banana rolling papers.  After saying no, he laughed and asked for a "bag...I mean pack" of cigarettes.  I was stoned off my ass at the time, mind you....

Off topic?  or wisdom in action?

Meh, it sounds like lack of wisdom in action.

Maybe that's why Discordians aren't really known for doing stuff.

Bullshit.