To: Neocon who wrote (13581 ) 5/15/2001 9:18:05 AM From: epicure Read Replies (2) | Respond to Why is that shallow? Wisdom, it seems to me, can be acquired in many ways. Some people are simply born "wiser" than other people. Some people are born with such gentle tempers and kind natures they seem very wise with or without study. On the other hand I have met people who have studied for years who seem very stupid to me. Of course all such judgments are bound to be subjective, but I don't see how thinking that originality may lead to wisdom is shallow. It is different from the way you think, perhaps, but shallow? I suppose it could be shallow if believed in by someone who had not contemplated it- but that is true of any ideas. If thought upon deeply, and held by someone of character and intelligence, who had fully meditated upon it, how is that idea of wisdom any more shallow than any other belief?
