Age=Wisdom?

[old cat]

1 hour ago, sikkboy said:

200 000 years of evolution and I'm still reading about who hit who with a stick like object.......I think that says something,quote a line from The Cube..... nothing out there but Boundless human stupidity,well known fact, before the age of 18 teens lack reasoning skills ( black and white thinking )

Not trying to be sarcastic although this sounds like it ... but "before the age of 18" and reasoning skills (black and white thinking) are not linked. Maybe more common, maybe.

We can blame evolution for not working (when's the last time the average urbanite/suburbanite chased off even a weasel (animal type, not human).

We have kept that "pick up a stick like object" habit because of our own mentality. Anyone not in our circle of family 'n friends that is even mildly "offensive" whatever the hell it is, is immediately the weasel needed to be dealt with.

[winny257]

On 8/14/2018 at 12:44 PM, sikkboy said:

200 000 years of evolution and I'm still reading about who hit who with a stick like object.......I think that says something,quote a line from The Cube..... nothing out there but Boundless human stupidity,well known fact, before the age of 18 teens lack reasoning skills ( black and white thinking )

the story proves the opposite!
here to name a few who were already kings as children. 

 

Tutanchamun

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[Jazzman]

@winny257

 

The mentioned figures didn't claim a ruling position by their own affords but exclusively due to their heredity rank in the succession of power,

sometimes, as in case of Tutankhamun, as the result of a priestly plot to reestablish the traditional Amun cult by moving a loyal juvenile from

a sideline of the Royal family of Akhnaten into position.

[winny257]

1 hour ago, Jazzman said:

@winny257

 

The mentioned figures didn't claim a ruling position by their own affords but exclusively due to their heredity rank in the succession of power,

sometimes, as in case of Tutankhamum, as the result of a priestly plot to reestablish the traditional Amun cult by moving a loyal juvenile from

a sideline of the Royal family of Akhnaten into position.

yes, I realize that this is done through heredity, but Tutankhamun was even a god-king and that already as a child.
also in the Chinese Empire and among the Mongols, there were children's guides and some were already cruel as a child! 

[Jazzman]

Aye, Tut, the Living Image of Amun, was god-king for all his subjects as the claimed title states already.

Not all power seekers go overboard with their social role, but some do. And that makes 'em dangerous.

That's clearly not what we'd ever expect from a sage...

[FauxFurry]

The basic Shinto concept of Kami is practically built around the idea that the longer that a being lives, the more wisdom that it accrues (or that it requires more and more wisdom to survive for a longer time). Once it hits a critical threshold, it attains a state of enlightenment which grants it vast powers, allowing it to transform and transcend into something akin to a god.

 

I just thought that it would be amusing to share that little tidbit of data as it is appropriate to this thread.