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[–] voice_of_shakti ago 

Wise people needn't be full of doubt. The Abrahamic traditions do these days lead to an abundance of doubt, but you can find wisdom without doubt.

I draw wisdom from Shakti and the Rishis. I'll admit they are a bit abstruse for most Westerners. Consequently, I recommend a dose of Confucius (Great Learning) and Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching). They are more easily absorbed. That should be enough to get you through.

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[–] intrepiddemise 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well played.

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[–] the_magic_man 3 points 1 point (+4|-3) ago 

Donald Trump and is a prime example

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[–] 1Sorry_SOB 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wise men have to act or their 'wisdom' is for naught.

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[–] ginganinja 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

My dad and I have a saying, "there are two types of people in the world: those who don't know that they don't know, and those who know that they don't know."

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[–] european 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

there are 10 types of people in the world.

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[–] ginganinja ago 

And what would those 10 types be? (=゚ω゚)

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[–] apoptosis15 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

This is the Dunning-Kruger effect:

a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.

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[–] intrepiddemise 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

In my 35 years on this earth, I have yet to meet a single person that believed themselves to be "average". This was especially true of those few people who actually claimed to be "average." Almost everyone, in my experience, thinks themselves special in some way (if they engage in introspection at all). We all want to be unique, at least in the West.

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[–] Big_Dang 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I mean, there's a lot of other problems as well. AIDS and cancer come to mind. I'll suffer the fools if we can ditch those two diseases

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[–] 4804852? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

For me world hunger, fresh water supplies, aggression between nations (Nationality itself being a problem), bee populations plummeting, our foolish dependence on fossil fuels, our vulnerability to CMEs, and the increasing difficulty in finding non-chemically or biotechnologically altered food come to mind as problems with the world before AIDs. Cancer's just what you get when you try to live for more than half a century under the conditions of constant radiation such as we do. Most Earth-bound lifeforms can't pull that off.

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[–] Hey_Sunshine 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Constant radiation

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[–] jerrykantrell 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

For a second I was all... Who the hell is Russel? Isn't this Bertrand Russel? I am an idiot.

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