Does it put you on a pavement that ultimately leads you to better and a gratified life, does it help us to asunder right from wrong?
Is it a sword that kills the ghost of ignorance, or is it lightning that kills one who takes refuge under its source?
Do we really require it, if yes what kind of knowledge?
Sufi Poet Hazrat Haq-Baho said;
Ilmon Bas Karein O yaar,
Ilm Na awVey Vich Shumar,
Iko Ilif Tery Darkar
How do you conceive the necessity of “knowledge”, Dushwari or anyone else?
Re: Knowledge
knowledge leads one to realize what one did not know, before.
there are things which one can only see when one can see what one cannot or could not see!
it is both, a sword and a powerful light. the duality of what knowldge can do, once it is apparent, does call for that rallying of universal spirits of colliding and balancing powers, which would strike a chord between benefits of knowing and disadvan tages of not knowing.
it is that depth that is noted, when it surfaces.
these kind of reversals make us see the value of true nature of knowledge as it presents itself to a thinking and reasoning mind and when that happens, an agent such as a human being, and enables one to decipher what one could not logically grasp, before.
the use of knowledge can set the tone, for what its true value or worth is, as a damaging factror or as a real ancillary.
hope this is a good start of a spurred discussion on your query, intelliphant.
Re: Knowledge
Agree woth dushi baji
knowledge leads one to realize what one did not know, before. there are things which one can only see when one can see what one cannot or could not see! it is both, a sword and a powerful light. the duality of what knowldge can do, once it is apparent, does call for that rallying of universal spirits of colliding and balancing powers, which would strike a chord between benefits of knowing and disadvan tages of not knowing. it is that depth that is noted, when it surfaces.
these kind of reversals make us see the value of true nature of knowledge as it presents itself to a thinking and reasoning mind and when that happens, an agent such as a human being, and enables one to decipher what one could not logically grasp, before.
the use of knowledge can set the tone, for what its true value or worth is, as a damaging factror or as a real ancillary.
hope this is a good start of a spurred discussion on your query, intelliphant.
Indeed Dushwari, it is a good start, to make it interesting and to get “the best” out of you, I will contest every statement that you will make, let’s see how shallow I will appear in my rationale when speaking against the necessity of knowledge. However let’s keep the main perspective as “knowledge being a tool for a better life”;
Knowing what we know in comparison to what we didn’t know before, doesn’t, guarantee that what we know is what we should know to improve our lives or life around us generally. On the other hand knowing what we should know to improve life is a call to decision and timing of the decision rather than knowledge.
The process of decision making has more to do with the bias or inclination that we genetically carry with us than the nurture that puts us, normally, on a wrong train, destination of which is dictated by our society, our education system and mentors of all kind whose intellectual insight is marred by their own limited interest that they can afford to put in us to eke out best in us. The dilemma of modestly educated person is that his education drags him/her in one direction and his aptitude pulls in other leaving the subject more confused than an ill informed who does not have luxury of options.
Those who stand at a higher level in knowledge tend to use their information as a sword mostly to chop any and every opportunity for those who don’t enjoy the information, thus making not only their own lives least gratified but miserable for others, and to a surprise all those who were once incapacitated and maimed by the vice of being ignoramus, join the same club if reach at certain level of knowledge. So in essence knowledge is a sword always naked for the ignorant rather than for the ignorance
Re: Knowledge
Intelliphant,
Knowledge should not be a case of competition. Sharing knowledge for the sake of life constructive rules which ideally can make life comfortable and environments, safer ought to be the goal.
Ignorance cannot be personified. The onus is on its user and how that agent exploits it.
All factual Knowledge can be made good use.
Control of knowledge even, for the sake of its ethical applicability to a life situation/s must be guided by fairness and consistency. Behavioral issues that pertain to use of knowledge must coincide with the ethics of equal right of everyone to express what they know and also admit to what they do not know. From there on, the pursuit of life constructive knowledge can become easier.
People may have differences in presentation or having a particular point of view about a fact or an opinion, which is also knowledge.
But, how justified its use is, is reliant on the ethics of the people who make use of this knowledge.
Any thoughts?