Can I have some Intelligent answers, please?

Question

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I posted this question and I recieved two answers, neither person used half their brain to answer. So Please, check it out so I can get a few more responses...

Answer 1

Hopefully this answer will please you.

People love to learn, but more importantly, people love to see direct evidence of learning in others due to them. Parents love to teach their children. Teachers love to teach their students (despite this, many believe teachers hate them). Generally, we are all very social; without others interacting with us, we get lonely and sick and sometimes die. But we are most satisfied when we see that we have changed the viewpoint or thinking of someone else. We have made that one person a little less strange, and a little more like us ... like the way we think. The more some one person thinks like we do, the more we feel safe around them, and the more we like them.

This is why cultures tend to homogenize (sp?) as they do. People like to stick with those who understand them (and value them). People tend to stay away from those who do not understand them (because we feel they will not value us). We don't usually feel safe around those who do not think like us. So when one person can change the mind of another, or strongly influence it away from a previous (alien!) point of view, and closer to the "home" point of view, then that is a "victory" to be celebrated. (Trust me, teachers and parents feel extremely rewarded when they see little signs of "improvements" in their children or students.)

Does this help answer your question?

Answer 2

The poem is beautiful, and covers a deep subject: the love of learning, and the delight in learning that what we have learned enhances the world at large.

Yes, I think you are right. Our delight at what we have learned about God is (should be) one reason that we want to "spread the word" about our religion. If where we see it impacting the world produces good fruit, then we really have GOOD NEWS to share. And that beautiful good news we have, is worth more to us than treasure or houses or gold or silver.

What is more beautiful than falling in love? Than looking into the eyes of your beloved, and finding unending love looking back? If you discovered you could share this exstacy with another person, if you could help them find those eyes, wouldn't you want to do so?

I don't know the source of the poem, but it is nice.

Answer 3

well, most people won't receive the notion that the true blessing in life is knowledge. they want someone to give them something. they want a hand out or an easy way out. there is no immediate gratification or outcome to knowledge. it must be comprehended, then integrated and cultivated, then applied. too much trouble!

most people are too lazy. hence, all of the lame responses you got. but at least they got their 2 points. i'd rather give a thoughtful reponse to someone i could help rather than gain 2 empty points.

the bottom line is, knowledge is power. but only to a mind that is willing and able to use it!

Answer 4

i would agree with the statement but like most Buddhist or deeply philosophical questions it really does not say very much with many words.

basically it says that

knowledge is the greatest treasure of all.

but it uses an entire paragraph to say it. this it they type of statement that one can either agree with or disagree with but no real conversation can be had about it because it is simply too simple and it does not raise any question about a person's beliefs.

therefore there is just not much to say about it

Answer 5

You should have posted the question again.
I think the religions seek to understand how to control a flock through specific knowledge, not spreading knowledge in general or understanding of the universe as is referred to in your quote.
True knowledge requires no gods, no priests. Religion was mostly created so that priests and missionaries would go into primitive areas and teach the natives not to eat the salesmen who would follow them.
Simple truths entertain wise men. "The land and the people will go on." -The Good Earth

Answer 6

If you hadn't begged, I wouldn't have answered. I'm sure this short verse resonates you as a beautiful thought. For that reason you should of course embrace its sentiment.

However, it seems relatively shallow to me. And your added comment about learning causing people to want to share their religious views just doesn't hold up: Much of what people clamor to share more closely resembles lack of learning.

Answer 7

No one can take away some ones knowledge and knowledge is like gold "the key that unlocks the door."

Answer 8

Now u have morethan 2 answers

Answer 9

knowledge is something that nobody can take away from you, as you learn and know things more, you feel happy and good about it that you would want to learn more and more to add up to your knowledge, you find some kind of fulfilment from it thus making you embrace it more

Answer 10

Knowledge is Power. It's the gift that you keep giving yourself. It is possible to teach an old dog new tricks.

When I teach others. I'm delighting them with what I'm learning?