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Imagined if you put effort into philosophy instead of bullshit.

Your effort is misplaced.

So they're all different. Then we need to stop using them interchangably.

Wisdom is the love of learning.

How is that different from intelligence or knowledge? I assume there is a difference, that wisdom, knowledge and intelligence are not all the same one thing.

From another thread, "I really upset my one daughter and wife, when I made the observation that since I am retired and no longer taking care of 2 of my grandchildren as often, I like to lay down on the couch in the afternoon and take a rest or a nap. I remember that my father had been outside ...

Arising_uk wrote:

Jaded Sage wrote:It's not a contradiction. It's a paradox, an apparent contradiction.

Depends what you mean by Theism and Deism then? As in the normal meaning you are making a flat-out contradiction.

Yes, but I mean it to be a contradiction that is possible.

I have found that the eternal return provides a paradoxical feeling of freedom. Also, for some reason, when I imagine the world is deterministic, I also feel this freedom. It is the same freedom reported by William James of monks who excercise the virtue of obedience to abbots. The certainty of the ...

What does it mean for wisdom to be the kind of thinking that leads to thriving or flourishing?

You can also define optimism as anyone who enjoys life no matter how bad or good. And a pessimist the opposite. I am sure it is due to brain chemistry. Agreed, and largely agreed. I think it is both brain chemistry and life experience, both nature and nurture. To the extent that nurture can influen...

Jaded Sage: I wondered if a pessimist can enjoy any pleasures like food for instance because as a pessimist he expects the worst case scenario (pessimo in Italian) and that would be that the food is poisoned or will cause some bad disease like a heart attack or cancer or an allergic shock. This was...

I suppose. I'm just interested in clearing up the confusion from earlier.

I kinda meant: how do we make sense of what he said, not do we agree with him. What does he mean, and why would he say that?

For the record there is a difference between lowering your expectations and being a pessimist. Pessimists have bad expectations not low expectations.

That's not exactly what I meant by "what do you think."