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Does Wisdom Equal Intelligence?
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No...
Oppenheimer and his crew of scientists where very intelligent. They developed the atomic bomb...
But no man with an ounce of wisdom would have ever had taken part in such an endevour...
Sometimes you get people with High IQ that have Wisdom.. But only sometimes..
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I have no thoughts right now but that doesn't mean I'm not intelligent. I could be pretending to be wise.
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You could be pretending, but intelligent people would recognize your pretending. Because they are wise.
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On the contrary, I think wise people would recognize my pretending because they are intelligent.
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I go by the tried and tested Dungeons & Dragons illustration: your intelligence would tell you that precipitating from the sky is called 'rain'. Your wisdom would tell you to get to shelter.
That has served me well for the best part of 32 years.
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As is repeated frequently in the bible.
'The fear(awe) of the Lord is the begining of Wisedom.'
How many highly intelligent scientists actual have any respect lot alone awe or fear of God.
They have intelligence but very little wisedom.
'The fear(awe) of the Lord is the begining of Wisedom.'
How many highly intelligent scientists actual have any respect lot alone awe or fear of God.
They have intelligence but very little wisedom.
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Just in your own life, can you think of any people with sub-par intelligence that yet have common sense, or conversely geniuses who are complete fools.
I guess I can.Wisdom is all about making good choices, and it doesn't take a genius to do that, but just common sense, and an understanding of right and wrong.
From popular culture there is the Big Bang Theory, where the smartest people in the world haven't got an ounce of common sense.
And it is funny because it is true.
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So, as for science, it worships wisdom in a way, that way being problem solving?
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No.
Intelligence is the ability to obtain and maintain information.
Wisdom is the application of that information in a beneficial way.
According to science which, as usual, has things backwards, wisdom comes before intelligence, since we are born wise (thus "Homo sapiens").
To get around this mistake, scientists ... or at least the New Age ones ... say that we are born with all of the information of the universe stored in our heads, and the job of teachers is to unlock and bring out that information.
Thus the word "educate," which means "to bring out" or "train."
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How do we call the ''blending'' of maintaining and application of information? Is there a term for it at all?
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