Branching Thread

[Asphodel]

Okay, back on topic. I can't remember where we left off, but I stand by the fact that we're too smart for our own good.

[SunsetG|rl]

And still... Would you rather have us live like stupid people? Like animals maybe? Or what is it you understand by "too smart"?

[Asphodel]

I mean... see there are three branches of the brain:

INFORMATION
KNOWLEDGE
WISDOM

Being smart is good, but if we don't have enough wisdom to balance it out, then we go off killing each other.

[SunsetG|rl]

yes you have a point here...But I still don't know how we are too smart for our own good. I mean if we were smarter I think we would be better. I mean if we were wiser. And more information I guess we could use. But there's no way in hell we can ever know everything

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Well of course! You can't know everything.

For example, what does the colour purple smell like?

[SunsetG|rl]

like liliac...But that was sorted out in some movie...
Anyway there are knowable things that we don't know. Like how big is the galxy, what are protons foremed of. How can we calculte square root in a fast mode.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Very true.. I thought Lavender, possibly....

Errrrrrrm.. yeah, like why on earth do Murphy's Laws exist..

Hmm, shall we contunie with this, it being so ridiculously off topic lol?

[Asphodel]

Well, I think this topic is coming to a close. My conclusion (feel free to debate it) is that if we are too smart without enough wisdom, well we start going after power and money and *BANG* we're dead.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I think it's all up to the person in question and the way they are brought up.

All depends if they have a yearning for said money and power, really.

[Asphodel]

Oh yeah, I forgot religion, that's another big one. See, if we don't yearn money, power, and religion spreading there would be no wars.

[SunsetG|rl]

Well, I think this topic is coming to a close. My conclusion (feel free to debate it) is that if we are too smart without enough wisdom, well we start going after power and money and *BANG* we're dead.

This is more as in "we know to use the atomic bomb but we are not wise enough and we're gonna end up deep fried" ?

As for this topic. Though it's not really on topic I think it's an interesting one. And you could let it for a while.

As for religion. You know they say the next world war will be on the count of religion

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I can split it from where it veered off then.

What do you think it should be called?

[Asphodel]

Something like.... J.K.R's influence...

Oh yeah, the third world war will be fought with fision bombs, and the fourth with sticks and stones. ( I know I said this before, but I really believe in it.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Didn't Albert Einstein say that?

Something like:
"I don't know what the 3rd World War will be fought with, but I know what the 4th will; sticks and stones."

It was something like that, wasn't it?

Good, really. Things like that can make you think.

[Asphodel]

Yeah it was Al. Funny 'cause he made the atom bomb, yet he was a peace-freak (for lack of a better word). Then again, if we hadn't made it, the Nazis would've, and that would be worse.