Know nothing .

[Dexter Sinister]

I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, and I see no reason to keep quiet about any of it. It's true that people who know nothing often say a lot, just look around any Internet message board a bit, but it's not true that when you know something there's nothing to say, that's nonsense. The backbone of any successful human culture comes from people who know things passing them on. How can you learn anything if the people who know about it have nothing to say? A lot of the things I know I learned from listening to people who knew something. There is value in sharing what you know, and much of my reputation here is based on the fact that I do it freely and some people seem to find it interesting and useful. What would you have me do China, shut up and go away? Or stop writing about the things I know? I suppose I could do that, just do drive-by postings in threads on subjects I know nothing about and become just another annoying troll.

I went to university for years to listen to people who knew things saying something about them. There were people there who knew a lot and I wanted to know it too. All those years would have been a colossal waste of my time and money if the people who knew something had had nothing to say about it.

Pseudo-profound BS irritates me.

 

[china]

What would you have me do China, shut up and go away? Or stop writing about the things I know?

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No Dexter , I love you ,The forum would not be the same without Your wisdom.
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Pseudo-profound BS irritates me.

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Me too Dexter,specially the wording.

 

[china]

Thanks for all the responses ,China

 

[hermanntrude]

[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times][FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]When you know nothing, you say a lot. But when you know something, there is nothing to say.[/FONT][/FONT]

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[china]

Praxius

when you know something, why is there nothing to say?

Perhaps knowing something is the only time one realizes that there allot that he doesn't know.

 

[Tonington]

Perhaps knowing something is the only time one realizes that there allot that he doesn't know.

I don't know about the only time, but I know the more I learn, the more it opens me up to things I don't know. It's like opening a door only to realize you've entered a room with far more doors than the previous room.

 

[darkbeaver]

I think ignorance in a sense is the product of real knowedge in that what we discover in every answer is twenty-five more questions, so in that sense we can never come to the end of ignorance, certainly I am an ignorant fool but that is perhaps a wise thing to realize.

 

[MikeyDB]

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[hermanntrude]

I don't know about the only time, but I know the more I learn, the more it opens me up to things I don't know. It's like opening a door only to realize you've entered a room with far more doors than the previous room.

ive got past that now. the more i learn now, the smaller the holes are. Soon i really will know everything

 

[MikeyDB]

Hey Herm ya big spliff toking gadabout... Long time no talkee.....

Good to see you're still around.

All wisdom and all knowledge are present in the space time of our existence. There's simply no capacity within the organic framework of consciousness for these constructs to exist simultaneously. All the individual can have is a piece thereof....

 

[darkbeaver]

Walter, baby, where have the fish gone?:lol: