What is your greatest value?

[Elok]

No, but if you can't say definitively whether something is or is not wisdom, or any other quality you care to name, the word becomes nothing more than a vague description given to a not-necessarily-existent idea.
Like "cool," for instance. Are you cool? More importantly, does anyone care whether they're cool or not, seeing as we can't even agree on the exact nature of the trait? If you say, "you're pretty cool!" you're expressing some form of approval somehow, but for all the actual meaning conveyed you might as well have said, "you're pretty floggabooble!"
You see what I'm getting at? For practical purposes, if you cannot give a reasonably exact definition of a concept that concept might as well not exist. Which is why I say cynicism isn't wisdom. That in itself is not a definition of wisdom itself, any more than saying that "hungry" is not a verb is a definition of the word "hungry."

[Az]

*turns off computer, and goes to watch some 'Friends' reruns*

[DanielXY]

Oh, I constantly grow out of cynicsm in being all idealistic and such ... its a 3 or hm actually 4 way cycle.
a) you are idealistic
b) you gain wisdom thrue experience and observation
c) you get cynic
d) you get tired of cynicsm and hope jumps in, reinforcing idealism, although you dont forget ...

cycle repeats...

Ok probably I got just some mental disorder or something, but since Im in status c) atm I dont give a damn (hm actually on the edge to d) I guess since I do a little...) ...

[Odin]

My visual IQ is 160.

[Ecthy]

ock = ok but ausgesprochen as a word not an abkürzung

[Ben Kenobi]

I can think of two. I'm not sure if I can trim this to one:

Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength,

Love your neighbour as yourself.

[Ecthy]

bull**** obiwan, he's asking for YOUR qualities!!!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Elok
Cynicism isn't wisdom. It's an impediment to wisdom, since it causes you to automatically assume that anything you are told is false until it is proven true by ludicrously rigorous testing, and therefore it's almost impossible for a cynic to learn or grow in any way.

Firstly, that's not cynicism, that's skepticism. Secondly, that's not how skepticism works. Thirdly, skepticism is a defense against worthless mumble jumble.

Originally posted by Elok
Wisdom is the realization, acceptance, and ability to deal with and use the truth in a mature fashion, not to grab what little you can and hide with it like a turtle in its shell.

What is "truth?"

[Ted Striker]

ich bin ein grosse Scheissekopf

danke Andz und DanielXYZ von Flyopen

[Zero]

Loyalty

and a single track mind (i guess thats both an adv and disadv)

[Solly]

lonn-donn

[Ted Striker]

what the hell is lonn-donn?

[Elok]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Firstly, that's not cynicism, that's skepticism. Secondly, that's not how skepticism works. Thirdly, skepticism is a defense against worthless mumble jumble.
What is "truth?"

Whoops, I always get the two mixed up. I stand by my comments about the stupidity of blind *skepticism* though. If you have no reason to believe someone is lying to you or mistaken(which most people do not), you're wasting enormous amounts of time and energy.
And truth is the opposite of falsehood and foolishness. If you want a definition of everything it encompasses, well, I don't know it all and I don't think there's enough space on this server.

[Solly]

Ted, Andz will know..

[Ecthy]

better than Lun-dun