Your friend Dean. How do you know, mathematically, how many things he knew? How do you know, mathematically how many things Einstein knew? You can't. Not even they could give you the number.

Let me ask this. When you pull up to an intersection, and you see that the light is red, what have you learned? You have learned that the light is red.

Your friend Dean learns many somethings too

He shared with me this statement, " you could fill a textbook with what I do not know".

But, Charles still will tell you, "you could fill a textbook with things I do not know".

It qualifies me to be almost, an ignoramus.

We begin learning the day we are born. We learn something every day. Doesn't matter what we learn, that is not the point. The point is, we are , if we are consiously aware, learning continuously. So, if we are learning something, beginning on the day of our birth, "again, doesn't matter what," then we accumulate a library of knowledge . Let me again stress, it is not the quality of what we learn, just the quantity.

So, Nameless. I'll assume, that you are a relatively young man.

I know, that I am a relatively old man.

Keeping in mind that we are not discussing quality, but simply quantity, who knows more?

Now, Charles is older than I. Mathematically speaking, it is impossible for me to know more than Charles.

But remember, Charles stated that you could fill a book with what he does not know.

He therefore implied a great amount of ignorance residing in himself.

I therefore must imply a greater amount of ignorance in myself than is in Charles.

That is why I use the word dummy. So, Mr. Nameless. If you are younger than I, mathematically speaking, now remember, this is quantity and not quality, what does that say about you?

What do you have to say for yourself. LOL.:whistling:

You reminded me of a person I knew years ago.She was so smart. Younger than me too.She was light years ahead of me in intelligence . I often thought, this lady must be a thousand years old. Thank you for reminding me of her. She so often, put me in my place. We all have a certain degree of knowledge. We all also, have a certain degree of ignorance. But you know, thinking of her, as i am now, I could not possibly apply the word ignorance to her. Again, thank you for reminding me of her.

I..fortunately we all have mixed blessings but no one should claim superiority over the other.

Perhaps Elmud, but what if I am Brawny and you are the generic brand?

You know, reading over this thread I'm reminded of another form of "I know more than you" that seems to be quite popular these days. [INDENT] It's the condescending type that says, "You too will come around", "One day you'll understand", and "You might not understand now, but you will". This is, of course, crap; and filled with assumptions and self-glorification.
[/INDENT]If there's one thing I've learned - that I feel pretty solid about - its that everyone's head operates vastly differently. I think I understand this to a point in that I've seen a ton of people who seem to get smacked with life's lessons over and over by things that *appear* obvious. In this case, what seems 'obvious' may have nothing to do with what's going on in that person's mind.

To, again, arrogantly profess that, "You, such the poor lamb you are -have patience and you, too, will come to the light-filled place I am!" is just gut-wretchingly dripping with sanctimonious self-love and may not have anything to do with what the perceiver thinks is going on.

And yep, I've been guilty of this too; perhaps its that realization that fuels my distaste for this kind of behavior.

Thanks

You know, reading over this thread I'm reminded of another form of "I know more than you" that seems to be quite popular these days. [INDENT] It's the condescending type that says, "You too will come around", "One day you'll understand", and "You might not understand now, but you will". This is, of course, crap; and filled with assumptions and self-glorification.
[/INDENT]If there's one thing I've learned - that I feel pretty solid about - its that everyone's head operates vastly differently. I think I understand this to a point in that I've seen a ton of people who seem to get smacked with life's lessons over and over by things that *appear* obvious. In this case, what seems 'obvious' may have nothing to do with what's going on in that person's mind.

To, again, arrogantly profess that, "You, such the poor lamb you are -have patience and you, too, will come to the light-filled place I am!" is just gut-wretchingly dripping with sanctimonious self-love and may not have anything to do with what the perceiver thinks is going on.

And yep, I've been guilty of this too; perhaps its that realization that fuels my distaste for this kind of behavior.

Thanks