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Subject: Does age necessarily equal wisdom?

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I find that age and experience are merely correlated with being wise. Neither one is an indication that someone will have any deep perception and understanding of the world. Only those who reflect on whatever time's hand has dealt them can be truly seen as wise.

One could deem an act wise and another deem if folly. Who is to say who is right and who is wrong? Ultimately wisdom is subjective, something that only exists in the eye of the beholder. We all can hope to one day be wizened, reflective, and knowledgeable about life and able to pass on something meaningful to humanity, more specifically the younger generations, but ultimately I think its merely only one's own hubris that spawns wisdom. Your personal opinions, the ones that matter to you about life, define your individual sense of knowledge and therein lies "wisdom."

[Edited on 12.22.2012 4:46 PM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 4:44 PM PDT
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  • 12.22.2012 4:50 PM PDT

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Wisdom is knowledge and experience.
Knowledge and experience are relevant to your lifestyle.

Ultimately it depends on your lifestyle and how long you live for.

  • 12.22.2012 4:52 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.


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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.
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Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.

  • 12.22.2012 6:26 PM PDT

Not in this day and age.

  • 12.22.2012 6:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bungie Sam
Wisdom is knowledge and experience.
Knowledge and experience are relevant to your lifestyle.

Ultimately it depends on your lifestyle and how long you live for.

  • 12.22.2012 6:27 PM PDT

No, not at all. More so, many of those who say wise or insightful things merely repeat what they've heard previously.

The older you get, the more you hear. The more you hear, the more material you have at your disposal.

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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.

While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.

Age equals experience, which can mean wisdom.

  • 12.22.2012 6:45 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: Dr TimothyLeary
No, not at all. More so, many of those who say wise or insightful things merely repeat what they've heard previously.

The older you get, the more you hear. The more you hear, the more material you have at your disposal.
That would explain how my mother occasionally manages to say something intelligent about politics. :P

  • 12.22.2012 7:27 PM PDT


Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
You gain experience from age; so yes, age does equal wisdom.

  • 12.22.2012 7:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: l Supertramp l

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
You gain experience from age; so yes, age does equal wisdom.
You get experience through exposure and with time through age, I think might be a better way to word it. You don't gain experience simply by aging, there are far too many people who act childish in their adult lives still.

  • 12.22.2012 7:30 PM PDT


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Posted by: l Supertramp l

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
You gain experience from age; so yes, age does equal wisdom.
You get experience through exposure and with time through age, I think might be a better way to word it. You don't gain experience simply by aging, there are far too many people who act childish in their adult lives still.
I agree with your point, as you're correct. Never really thought about that.

  • 12.22.2012 7:31 PM PDT
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Honestly:

Plenty of people I've (met), older people, have told me that I have something that other people my age don't have, but they can't put their finger on it.

I'll say that I've had a very strong amount of wisdom, due to my dad, since I was about 12.

I guess that a lot of it has come from being a loner as well, and I usually see the world differently than others. Seriously, I am like a young philosopher for some reason.

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You make it sound like you are seeing these older people as not quite as wise as the younger because of views the older people do not share with you while the younger do.

I'm sure that it is not quite what you think.

Like a teenager thinking they know everything.

That's just what your post makes it seem like.

  • 12.22.2012 7:32 PM PDT

Sometimes I am very wise and mature and other times I act like a little kid.

  • 12.22.2012 7:32 PM PDT
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No.

  • 12.22.2012 7:33 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: l Supertramp l

Posted by: Onca Rapotee
No, experience does.
You gain experience from age; so yes, age does equal wisdom.
Not always. A few older people have led very sheltered lives.

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If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Experience comes with age. Wisdom comes with experience.

  • 12.22.2012 7:39 PM PDT

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There's probably a correlation, but no.

  • 12.22.2012 7:39 PM PDT

"Life is constantly fleeting from your grasp even from the very day it's bestowed upon you, but the shadow of death is always there, waiting for its chance to take you away."

"Even though many may not think so, ignorance and innocence are one and the same. The only difference is that one sounds nicer."

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Hell no. You can be as old as you want and still be stupid as a brick.

  • 12.22.2012 7:42 PM PDT


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Hell no. You can be as old as you want and still be stupid as a brick.


Very true.

  • 12.22.2012 7:46 PM PDT
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He who wishes for peace must first prepare for war.

Wisdom is the ability to determine the right from the wrong.

Age is irrelevant when it comes to this.

Is a man who has been in prison for most of his adult life filled with wisdom?

  • 12.22.2012 7:47 PM PDT
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Up until a certain age.

  • 12.22.2012 7:57 PM PDT

Not at all. Brain power = Wisdom.

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