Does Age equal Wisdom?

[TruthSeeker1020]

I want get some opinions on this topics, so here is the simple question. Does being older mean that you are wiser?

[Frankenstein]

Age brings with it experience. However, it's what one does with those experiences whether it blossoms into wisdom. Do you think a thief could have more experience than a wise man?

[Typist]

Age doesn't equal wisdom, but age can be an aid towards wisdom. You know, you have more data to work with.

[phyllo]

Do you think a thief could have more experience than a wise man?

A thief may be wiser than a wise man when it comes to questions of thievery. A successful thief is probably wiser than an unsuccessful thief.

A wise person is not wise in all things. A wise person knows what he/she does not know.

[MagsJ]

Not always... some youngsters are wiser than their elders who seem to have no common sense whatsoever, but that's today's London youths for you.. wise beyond their years.

[phyllo]

When I was sixteen, my father was the most ignorant man in the world. By the time I reached 21, I was surprised at how much he had learned in five years. Mark Twain

[Moreno]

I want get some opinions on this topics, so here is the simple question. Does being older mean that you are wiser?

It depends if you are actually learning as you age or hunkering down for fitting in, giving up your desires and nestling nicely in a coffin or, I mean, an unpstanding or cool role in society.

[Selah7+]

Age doesn't equal wisdom, but age can be an aid towards wisdom. You know, you have more data to work with.

Agree. If we don't learn from our mistakes, then we haven't learned anything, therefore, we have not grown into wisdom.

[Moreno]

Do you think a thief could have more experience than a wise man?

Well, sure, he could be older, he could have done a wider variety of stuff?

[tentative]

I want get some opinions on this topics, so here is the simple question. Does being older mean that you are wiser?

It depends if you are actually learning as you age or hunkering down for fitting in, giving up your desires and nestling nicely in a coffin or, I mean, an unpstanding or cool role in society.

The minute you give up your curiosity and cease to learn, you're already dead. There are way too many who refuse to stop taking up space, breathing our air, and wasting our time. The problem with gaining all that experiential 'wisdom' is that it slowly becomes a mulch pile. Vital wisdom is letting all that knowing go and being open to new experience. That's why so many of us remain stupid.

[felix dakat]

I want get some opinions on this topics, so here is the simple question. Does being older mean that you are wiser?

Yes. I'm still a fool, but I'm wise enough to recognize it now.

[Frankenstein]

Do you think a thief could have more experience than a wise man?

Well, sure, he could be older, he could have done a wider variety of stuff?

I was curious if anyone would differentiate the difference between experience and wisdom. You were the first to bite! Care to elaborate on this difference though?

[Moreno]

Do you think a thief could have more experience than a wise man?

Well, sure, he could be older, he could have done a wider variety of stuff?

I was curious if anyone would differentiate the difference between experience and wisdom. You were the first to bite! Care to elaborate on this difference though?

Experience comes with being alive. Staring at TV snow is experience.
Knowledge may or may not come from specific experiences. Probably some minimal learning takes place when one is drunk and staring at TV snow. But it would be less than other experiences, most likely.
Knowledge: information, facts and skills about the world.
Wisdom: meta-knowledge, often primarily about oneself.

Experience: I found myself drunk watching TV snow.
Knowledge: This was boring. TV snow is a bit like snow, but not really. I wished I was elsewhere.
Wisdom: Some urges I have can lead to experiences I find less than satisfying. I actually remember just as I was reaching for the second shot, a nagging fear that I was going to regret getting drunk, but I pushing this fear aside. I think in the future I will not push this fear aside and see if this leads to more positive experiences.

Next door another guy just stares at TV snow. Feels bad, but learns nothing. Does the same thing the next night.

[Typist]

If I am the oldest person on the forum, then age equals wisdom.

Otherwise, never mind.

Age 60.

Can you top that?

[tentative]

If I am the oldest person on the forum, then age equals wisdom.

Otherwise, never mind.

Age 60.

Can you top that?

You're just a child. Try 68

[Typist]

Damn!

Ok, ok, here's a photo of me inside my philosophical blankee, looking quite thoughtful, mostly about an end to thought.

[Xunzian]

Not necessarily but we ought treat it as such.

[Trevor]

Not necessarily but we ought treat it as such.

Age brings with it experience, experience being essential to wisdom as far as I'm concerned, but if an individual lacks the ability, or will to reflect on their experience then they will more than likely lack wisdom.

Now, Xunxian thinks otherwise, and he has an Asian dude as an avatar, so I'm going to let rip on a tangent. A lot of old dudes are ignorant arseholes, and after having lived in a culture which bestows respect upon them regardless of them being either ignorant or aware they think they're entitled to unquestioned respect. Which is what wisdom deserves; not age. So, fuck the old ignorant pricks and let them die alone!

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[Gobbo]

I am always told I am an 'old soul.'

I'm not sure how that works.

[Smears]

Yes. All old people are wise.

[ScavengingVulture]

We are born children and in old age we are children once again before we die.

[Kriswest]

The wisest people I have met are the ones that have the least contact with the influence of humanity.