Comments on: No, I didn't watch http://johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/ I just blather on and on about stuff that interests me, mostly politics and sex and sometimes movies and art. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: redcupper http://johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-223 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:33:26 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-223 lol

]]> By: dzaster http://johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-222 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:04:12 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-222 “Late 50s”, muffinhead.

]]> By: laocoon http://johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-221 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:46:07 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-221 I’m in my mid 50s and still hate that I’m-older-than-you crap. I’m with you on that one.

I don’t know why some people have knowledge and bitter experience and can’t quite seem to put it together into wisdom. I can see a fallible human missing some wisdom some of the time, but some people never seem to get 2+2 to quite equal 4. Perhaps your formulation that they only apply their bitter experience to their neurosis is pretty close. Myself, I mostly just call ‘em Republicans, but that’s another blog.

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]]> By: westika http://johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-220 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:15:11 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/2007/01/24/no-i-didnt-watch/#comment-220 It’s funny that all us bloggers blogged about not watching the State of the Union. And I did get on the wisdom discussion on 3:40. I like what you said about bitter experience. I think as long as you’re commited to learning from experience, not just resenting it, you can gain wisdom. But there are lots of people with lots of experience that use it as a rub-it-in-the-young-peoples’-face argument than a true I’ve-learned-something-from-this argument. I mean, I know people who say, “Well, I’m older than you, therefore I understand [insert situation] better,” when i fact, they’ve applied their supposed experiences only to their neuroses rather than any real wisdom or personal growth. Does that make any sense?

(I probably should have posted this on mcarp’s blog, but I just thought of it.)

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