Me or Bill Gates?

[Smitty-48]

I've never met anyone on this forum or otherwise who doesn't equate wealth & fame with wisdom. Fame is the most important ingredient but wealth is a close second. Actual tested knowledge & experience count for nothing in most people's minds. That's why I hesitate to debate the position on a platform like FB.

I don't even really know what wisdom is. I'm not so wise.

I just tried to survive, till I found the right woman to settle down with.

[Martin Hash]

I've never met anyone on this forum or otherwise who doesn't equate wealth & fame with wisdom. Fame is the most important ingredient but wealth is a close second. Actual tested knowledge & experience count for nothing in most people's minds. That's why I hesitate to debate the position on a platform like FB.

I don't even really know what wisdom is. I'm not so wise.

I just tried to survive, till I found the right woman to settle down with.

You and everyone else. Hey, you got your dope and your dog. You'll be dead soon enough, as will we all.

[Smitty-48]

I've never met anyone on this forum or otherwise who doesn't equate wealth & fame with wisdom. Fame is the most important ingredient but wealth is a close second. Actual tested knowledge & experience count for nothing in most people's minds. That's why I hesitate to debate the position on a platform like FB.

I don't even really know what wisdom is. I'm not so wise.

I just tried to survive, till I found the right woman to settle down with.

You and everyone else. Hey, you got your dope and your dog. You'll be dead soon enough, as will we all.

Exactly.

The best soldiers I ever trained, the best soldier I ever knew; dead.

Wrong place, wrong time.

GBU-12, direct hit.

Lucktocracy.

[Martin Hash]

In case anyone is curious, I say that wisdom is "knowledge, experience & self-awareness, the more the wiser." There are probably Lurkers on FB who agree with that definition but posters are universally enamored to wisdom = fame + money, or in the religious case, wisdom = fame + morals.

p.s. A "wise" person is someone you'll take advice from.

[Smitty-48]

p.s. A "wise" person is someone you'll take advice from.

I'm willing to listen to any advice, but the content is all that matters.

I won't take anything under advisement which is not cogent.

I find that most people invoke nothing but fallacies, usually glaring.

Ergo, I just have to make the call myself, the Buck Stops Here, I'm the Decider.

[Smitty-48]

It's like my wife has far more wisdom than I do, she's much more mature and considerate.

I'm actually a rather reckless rock n' roller.

Yet in any crisis, my wife looks to me to make the call, because in any crisis, I stand to as the commander.

If there's no stand to? Smoke em' if you got em'

[Martin Hash]

Most people can get a dog & dope on their own without advice; what the hell do they need wise people for?

[Smitty-48]

I don't even recall anybody ever giving me much advice.

And what advice there was, I pretty much did the opposite.

I was a defiant rock n' roller from a young age.

I just put the pedal to the metal to see how fast you can go.

[Martin Hash]

I don't even recall anybody ever giving me much advice.

And what advice there was, I pretty much did the opposite.

You and everyone else, me included; that's why wisdom has no cachet: unless you can get rich or famous from it, who cares? Dog & dope, man.

[Martin Hash]

There was a time when I was young when men stood on the moon; it will never happen again.