Wisdom in age

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16 Comments

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 120d

it really is for the best. reject gnosis, embrace uncertainty

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 14 pts · 120d (4 replies)

If anything, I understand less.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d (3 replies)

Having passed our teenage years atop mt. stupid, we're firmly in the valley of despair.

Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 120d (2 replies)

That is not the dunning-kruger effect

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

Next you're going to tell me that the quote in the OP wasn't actually said by the pictured Opossums.

Will the illusions never end?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 120d

C'est ne pas une pipe.

I know what you mean, they never put any graph remotely like that in their paper. But couldn't not do the reference.

flynnguy@programming.dev · 13 pts · 120d

It's weird, I'm the same age as old people but I don't feel old... Except when I try and get up or down, I feel that 😕

Mac@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 120d

Not only do i understand nothing, but at least when i was younger i was ignorant to that.
You could argue i understand even less now.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 119d

Stupid people are confident they know everything, while smart people understand that they know hardly anything.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 119d

Hmm, I am always right but seldom correct?

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 119d

You now understand that they were lying when they said that, to seem smart, and get you to shut up.

Tada!

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

I'm older but all I understand is that things just keep getting worse and that I'm way too stupid to be smarter than this many people.

Hoimo@ani.social · 2 pts · 119d

That's because they refused to explain it. There's no secret knowledge that activates when you hit 13*, someone has to teach it to you.

*) Well... Except for that, of course.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

I'm older and I understand that my optimism for the world, our species, and my assumption that people are basically good were all total bullshit.

Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

"You just think you know it all because you're so young."

No no, I'm still just as cocky of a motherfucker and I'm approaching 40.

Signtist@bookwyr.me · 2 pts · 119d

Congrats, now you understand.