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Subject: Does age necessarily equal wisdom?

Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun

I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.

I'm not going to point any fingers, but some of the most insightful people I know are a good five years younger than me, and some of the most incredibly short-sighted people I've ever had the displeasure of meeting have been several years my senior. And yet, the overall perception in society is that age equals wisdom. Why?

Okay, so the older you get, the more life experience you have. (Usually.) I know I probably know more about life, relationships and a few other things than I did at age seventeen. But when it comes to what you might call the big questions - meaning of life, answers to the world's problems, etc. - I have heard some older ladies and gents spout some very questionable views, to put it kindly, whereas a lot of people my age seem to be a lot more clued-in when it comes to world issues and the like. Apparently, getting older doesn't necessarily make you wise where it counts. You can have a lot of experiences but not necessarily learn a thing from them, I guess.

Do you think age brings wisdom?

  • 12.22.2012 4:03 PM PDT

No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 4:03 PM PDT

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Nope, otherwise we'd all trust politicians.

  • 12.22.2012 4:03 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Ask me when I'm older.

  • 12.22.2012 4:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 4:04 PM PDT
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No, for example I am wiser than a 60 year old suffering from Down Syndrome.

  • 12.22.2012 4:04 PM PDT

Call me Stu


Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 4:04 PM PDT

No, life experience and education.

  • 12.22.2012 4:04 PM PDT
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Somewhat. The older you get, the more lessons you learn. With that knowledge, you can pass wisdom to those in similar predicaments you were in.

  • 12.22.2012 4:04 PM PDT

That said, experience can also bring ignorance.
Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 4:05 PM PDT


Posted by: Onca Rapotee
That said, experience can also bring ignorance.
Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
Elaborate?

  • 12.22.2012 4:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun

I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.


Posted by: Dead FallingCP
Somewhat. The older you get, the more lessons you learn.
Do you, though?

I mean, we all have that elderly relative who learned everything they know about society in the fifties and refuses to accept that things have changed. Questionable views about civil rights, outdated dating advice, a refusal to learn how to use a mobile phone or even the most basic computing functions...I mean, these people have lived long enough to learn plenty, but for some reason, they seem resistant to doing so. So have they really learned more lessons than their younger descendants?

  • 12.22.2012 4:06 PM PDT

Slave times.
Posted by: TURTLER9

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
That said, experience can also bring ignorance.
Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
Elaborate?

  • 12.22.2012 4:07 PM PDT

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
Slave times.
Posted by: TURTLER9

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
That said, experience can also bring ignorance.
Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
Elaborate?
Huh?
The only thing that comes to mind is the Antebellum period

[Edited on 12.22.2012 4:09 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 4:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 4:09 PM PDT

Shakes Magic 8 Ball

Age matures your body, experience matures your mind. As far as figuring out the meaning to life, it seems pretty simple to me.

  • 12.22.2012 4:12 PM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

lolno

  • 12.22.2012 4:13 PM PDT
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Absolutely not.

  • 12.22.2012 4:13 PM PDT

Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun

I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.


Posted by: NorbergK6
Age matures your body, experience matures your mind. As far as figuring out the meaning to life, it seems pretty simple to me.
Oh lawd.

Enlighten us, please.

  • 12.22.2012 4:20 PM PDT

Does anyone have lotion?
*Raises hand*
Is mayonnaise a lotion?

lolno

  • 12.22.2012 4:21 PM PDT

Awful experience = Possibility of ignorance.

Like stereotypes and things...Of the sort.
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Posted by: Onca Rapotee
Slave times.
Posted by: TURTLER9

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
That said, experience can also bring ignorance.
Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
Elaborate?
Huh?
The only thing that comes to mind is the Antebellum period

  • 12.22.2012 4:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: NorbergK6
Age matures your body, experience matures your mind. As far as figuring out the meaning to life, it seems pretty simple to me.


420 brah

  • 12.22.2012 4:25 PM PDT

Remember those times when we all had something better to be doing, but didn't do it? Those were good times. Gooood times

No.

  • 12.22.2012 4:27 PM PDT
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

-Gandalf

It really depends on the person.

  • 12.22.2012 4:28 PM PDT

Shakes Magic 8 Ball


Posted by: Harlow

Posted by: NorbergK6
Age matures your body, experience matures your mind. As far as figuring out the meaning to life, it seems pretty simple to me.


420 brah
Dewd, totally. Cuz you know, the ganj got your back no mattah what happens. Life would be so much better if everybody just listened to the same music and chilled with each other smoking the peace pipe, ya know what I'm sayin'? People just need to chill and quit bein' so angry all the time.

Unfortunately, you won't get to understand my sense of humor. As I'm referencing one of my favorite teachers' sense of sarcasm.

As far as getting your answer to the meaning of life, it's goes something like this. I can't tell you what it is, because that's your meaning to your life. Nobody is in control of your life except for you, you can't simply explain to somebody the meaning of life and expect them to understand where you're coming from.

  • 12.22.2012 4:37 PM PDT

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