97. 18 April 2019
Afternoon. You had lunch with Fritz and you just stopped by for a Honeybaked Ham for Easter Eve at Kim and Paul's. -- A bit later, after the ham delivered home you are back to Heritage Park by the shelter. Carol is taking her walk - Amorella
1508 hours. I wonder, what makes a person wise? People say it comes with age, but I don't see that much has to do with it. I used to think wisdom comes with mental maturity but I don't know about that either. Ben Franklin was thought to have been wise. I supposed the founding fathers were thought to have been wise too. But today we have no more factions than were around at the time or near the time of the Revolutionary War. If I remember right, one-third of the country wanted independence, one-third supported the king, and one-third were nonpolitical. So, here we are. Is wisdom an ethical question?
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wisdom - noun - the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.
• the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment: some questioned the wisdom of building the dam so close to an active volcano.
• the body of knowledge and principles that develops within a specified society or period: the traditional farming wisdom of India.
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1527 hours. Having good judgment sounds like the best criteria to define wisdom to me. Of course, as noted in the definition good judgment is based on a background of relevant experience and relevant knowledge. Relevant in context to me means this is mostly coming from the mind not coming from the heart. Yet, the basics of ethics comes from from following one's heart. Miss Havisham, how does the soul view the use of ethics or is it the judgment of heartanmind in terms of one's personal court. For instance in a personal determination of justifying one's action one could say, I believe my personal actions were justified through my heart rather than my mind. Which one is inherently stronger? It seems to me the heart is always stronger than the mind in terms of ethics.
Earlier, in another note, you said you felt that the spiritual heart was inherently closer to the soul than the spiritual mind. I do not deny this is true.
1551 hours. For me then, in a leap of logic, my argument that I am a romantic personality instead of a neoclassic one is correct.
One testicle naturally hangs lower than the other but that does not mean that one is inherently unequal with the other. In fact, only one is needed. mh
1557 hours. So, are you saying, that to be consider human only the heart is needed?
I am suggesting that the mind is built in for survival of the physical in almost all instinctive and conscious creatures. The spiritual heart is the addition that makes Homo sapiens human. mh
1604 hours. I find this quite difficult to accept at face value because it is our rational thinking, our intellect, that raises us up from those creatures of lower consciousness.
It is the spiritual heart that raises the intellect not the other way around, and it is the spiritual heart that raises consciousness also. mh
1650 hours. It may be but it is not the way I think. Passions of the heart are whirlwinds; it is the rational mind that gives the taming focus to build and invent.
Building and inventing create new whirlwinds. The heart is at the core of all human endeavors. Above all other spiritual matters, the soul favors the human heart first. mh
1658 hours. How then do we ever escape these whirlwinds in our private and public lives?
Post. - Amorella
1701 hours. The question rose up from the depths.
In here, boy, in this blog, one does not escape the personal existential-like spiritual whirlwinds through physical death. - Amorella
1706 hours. I don't believe you, Amorella.
One cannot escape what one is; one can only change what one is as spiritual matter. - Amorella
1709 hours. Only through one's consciousness I suppose.
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