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Silver Tongues
Have you ever caught someone mouthing off knowledge? Like it's some commodity they've attained through great pain and time spent? They need to show of their shinney new toy. It says nothing of understanding or perception.
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the two aren't necessarily linked. Why do human's prize their intellect so highly? Why is being called an idiot so offensive and derogatory, even if you really are metally lazy, lacking of intelligance or wit? Is it that we would like to be supperior to everything else in the worlds, and in words that tranzlates into being intelligent- since it seems to be the biggest more expressed and recognizable thing going for the human race. Does aqizition of knowledge mean we feel secure in our godhood? Is knowledge a vain attempt at elevation of understanding and eventually being? To be loved for ones scathing almost alianating wit, like Oscar Wilde (my favorite fop) who must have rattled of his little ironic inverted maxims at many a party- Or to be loved for one's knowledge, to relate to a person through Plato, Le Mis, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and know their preferances, but never to know the person's essence? That isn't being loved at all. I can only talk about myself for so long...
I must admit, I hunger for knowledge but only to understand more. I love learning for learning's sake (and it saves me like grace). If i don't truly learn something then i've waisted valuable effort and perhaps brain space. It's not what you read but what you put into it to get out of it.
The late Mr. Wagnon use to say to his lab class "Intelligence you inherit form your parents, knowledge you gain of your own accord, and wisdom, only God gives out, and sometimes age."
Wise guy...he always tried to keep things light and agile.
The Spark's Unintelligance test
last modified Dec 27, 2001 at 1:54
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