World created form Wisdom

[GrowingSmaller]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

People are blind. (they do not have to do anything to be blind) .
Why do you ask, btw ?

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

 

[SkyWriting]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

True. If not for the Creator, I'd poke my eye with a stick.

21Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?” 22When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and beggedJesus to touch him. 23So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?”

 

[juvenissun]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

Are you saying that if the world is created from wisdom, then it is wise to blind oneself intentionally?

 

[Nithavela]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

Because you keep bumping into things.

 

[Chesterton]

 

[AV1611VET]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

Because wise acres call themselves wise men.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I was thinking in kaballah that the first of creation was "chokhmah" (wisdom) and also in the proverbs theres 8:22-31 where wisdom was with God at the creation, and before...



https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+8:22-31


Is the Bible cosmology true? I like the idea, it makes the image I have of the stars glitter more brighly.

Looking for a scientific angle, if in general wisdom brings life to the person (its wise to wear glasses crossing the road if you need them), which came first the wisdom or the person?


Maybe they both together, but just as I didnt create my arms legs and eyes, I didnt create wisdom either.

Or is wisdom a social construction like in social science, or like logic and maths maybe some kind of fiction?

 

[jayem]

I see a lot more randomness, unpredictability, and volatility in the world than wisdom. And what wisdom there is exists through great struggle, trial-and-error, and expenditure of energy.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

I see a lot more randomness, unpredictability, and volatility in the world than wisdom. And what wisdom there is exists through great struggle, trial-and-error, and expenditure of energy.

Yes; if we see wisdom as the ability to apply knowledge effectively, there is the struggle to gain knowledge, and the trial-and-error of gaining the experience to apply it effectively; all of which takes considerable expenditure of energy.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I see a lot more randomness, unpredictability, and volatility in the world than wisdom. And what wisdom there is exists through great struggle, trial-and-error, and expenditure of energy.

Is wisdom somthing science can know of?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Its said that theres a zone between order and chaos. I think thats our predicament. We live in a chaotic (only semi predictable) world, trying to meintain the order of life. In a semi predictable way.

 

[jayem]

Is wisdom somthing science can know of?

Science gives us information we need to act wisely. Examples: Because of science we know it's wise not to smoke, and not to overuse antibiotics, and that burning fossil fuels amplifies the greenhouse effect.

 

[JackRT]

If the world you see around you is not created from wisdom, why is it unwise to blind oneself intentionally?

In the book of Proverbs "Wisdom" is personified as female (Wisdom is "Sofia" in Greek). She was there with God in the beginning. Here are her words in one of the biblical creation stories.

Proverbs 8:22 ‘The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,
before his deeds of old;
23 I was formed long ages ago,
at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,
when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was given birth,
26 before he made the world or its fields
or any of the dust of the earth.
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,
when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above
and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea its boundary
so that the waters would not overstep his command,
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
30 Then I was constantly at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day,
rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world
and delighting in the human race.