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[ezcol_1half]
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; foolish men talk because they have to say something; Snarp talks because his mouth moves while his vocal chords vibrate as he is expelling air from his lungs thus proving that both wise men and foolish men talk to avoid suffocating which makes wise men feel foolish and foolish men feel wise!”
- Plato
Ok… so maybe I added that last part, but that’s how my mind works, scary I know but that doesn't make me a bad person does it? Weird maybe… ok yes weird, but bad no!
Hmmm… I feel my cranial grey matter swimming around and around in my skull, bumping into things like a pinball bouncing off the bumpers in a pinball machine, and every time it does that something almost profound is about to be written…
“HANG ON TO SOMETHING!!”
The way I see it, the basics are this; wise men could not exist without the existence of foolishness and foolish men could not exist without the existence of wisdom! Just like we measure light with different layers of darkness and darkness with different layers of light, we can also measure wisdom with different layers of foolishness and we can measure foolishness with different layers of wisdom!
Uh-oh… this is getting DEEP!
So, with that in mind, if a man is to consider himself as wise, then doesn't that mean his wisdom is like an anchor? Holding him steady in the stormy, turbulent waters of life? If so then what is the name of his boat? [/ezcol_1half]
My guess would be; “OH FOOLISH ONE”!
Hahaha, where the hell did that come from? Uh-oh, grey matter turbulence is increasing; I hope you’re still hanging on!
It is my hipothum… uh…my hypotim… um… uhh… my statement that is assumed to be true for the sake of argument, that if the roles of wisdom and foolishness were reversed in the above scenario, there would be both wisdom and foolishness in the boat, they would both have oars, and they would both be rowing toward the safety of shore together! Wisdom would be shouting; “ROW… ROW… ROW… YOU FOOL!!”, and foolishness would still be screaming like a little girl!
“How can this be Snarp? Why isn’t foolishness at the bottom of the sea as an anchor like wisdom was?” I’m glad you asked about that, but you may not be!
When the stormy, turbulent waters of life become unsettling, if wisdom was in control, he’d act like and anchor and jump overboard to keep the boat from crashing into the rocks. If foolishness was in control, he’d start rowing and screaming like a little girl so that wisdom would stay in the boat to avoid getting dizzy and would start rowing too! I call this “Wisdofoolessness”!
Just because you find yourself being foolish once in a while doesn't mean you're stupid!
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the Escape key!
~Snarp
www.snarpfarkle.com