so i want to have a general knowledge of everything or at least as much as i can so i was thinking about reading a whole volume of enyclopedias from A - Z, do you think this is the way to go?
2007-12-25 08:13:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i don't literally want to know everything, but just a lot
2007-12-25 08:19:53 · update #1
In heaven we will have the perfect understanding.
2007-12-25 08:16:40 · answer #1 · answered by BaC Helen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Worked for me. But then you have to explain to people that you don't know what they're talking about because it begins with a "T" and you're not that far along.
Seriously, my siblings and I, as totally dorky teenagers, just sat watching TV at night with volumes of the encyclopedia on our laps. Now we know a bit about everything, and we were able to start ourselves off on the things we really liked.
2007-12-25 16:18:38 · answer #2 · answered by Snow Globe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to know everything, too, but after a while I had to realize that there is just too much to know.
If you read the encyclopedia, you'll know a little about a lot of things, but you won't know anything in very great depth.
2007-12-25 16:18:24 · answer #3 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it will keep you busy for awhile anyway.... nothing wrong with pursuing knowledge, as long as you learn to apply it with wisdom....I guess an encyclopedia will give you a basic knowledge of the world around you to start with........We had a set of World Books growing up, and used them often...
2007-12-25 16:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody can ever know everything.
Start by understanding that, and then take a unique journey, learning one thing after another as one thing leads to a curiosity about something else. It's not linear, it's a web because you don't just learn something without having questions about it and these branch off.
2007-12-25 16:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by Godless AM™ VT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. If you want to get humble, I would say start with a 'Universe", galaxy and then our solar system. We would know how atomic/tiny we are in the great chaos. Start with wikipedia.
2. If wanted to see order in the chaos, read laws of physics.
esp. Newton's, Eintein's, etc
3. If you want to know your existence (miracle that life exists in every cell), read cell theory.
4. If you want to start thinking on your own: Read data algorithms.
Take your time.
2007-12-25 16:27:14 · answer #6 · answered by ananta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One measures a circle beginning anywhere.
Charles Fort.
But I'd say your task was impossible, philosophically.
I'd refer you to to C S Lewis' essay "meditation in a toolshed"
Available as a PDF file, below.
2007-12-25 16:24:44 · answer #7 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can read everything there is to read and you still will not know everything. Believe me I tried. There is only one who knows everything and that is God.
2007-12-25 16:18:32 · answer #8 · answered by zoril 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A wise person is always open to learning. Start by studying something that interests you.
2007-12-25 16:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by David G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-25 16:16:17 · answer #10 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why? Wouldn't it be better to know what God wants you to know? He wants you to know His word, so that you may walk your life according to it, and to do His will, not your own. Afterall, we are only here for a little while, and this earth will perish. Only what's done for God will last. "Wisdom of this world is foolishness to God."
2007-12-25 16:35:37 · answer #11 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋