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Is age overrated?

Do you think a 25 year old could be wiser than a 35 year old PhD holder?

>> No.11178844

>>11178836
Is this bait?

>> No.11178850

>>11178844
Of course not.

I suppose a 25 year old could be much 'smarter' in the broader sense of the term than a 35 year old PhD holder as well.

>> No.11178868
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>>11178836
It depends really
A PhD is obviously just a bench mark and the 35 year old has more experience in his field, but if the 35 year old is a fucking idiot then yeah the 25 year old can be smarter

>> No.11178873

>>11178868
How much of an idiot could you be if you want a PhD?

>> No.11178879

>>11178836
Aging is very overrated. You think you people can gripe now. Uhg!

Intellect is measured in all sorts of ways, but it is a general rule of thumb that the older are wiser.
Some people hold onto falsehoods till death of course, so just use caution when learning.

t. former christfag/Republicant/depression sufferer

>> No.11178888

>>11178879
Ah no, OP here, I believe in God of course.

I just don't believe that God would want us to unduly respect age unwarranted. After all, many older people are just wrong, or lie for their benefit (Jordan Peterson)..


Anyway, thanks for your input shitfag, I mean tripfag, but no thanks.

>> No.11178893

>>11178873
enough to be just be a kiss ass and do all the things you're told like a machine

>> No.11178949

No

Old people have seen some shit but they're discreet about it unlike young people who think they re hot shit every time they have a new thought

I think louis ck has a bit about this

>> No.11178954

>>11178949
https://youtu.be/nQ80smxlvbw

>> No.11178960

>>11178888
You have much to learn, my child.
I suggest keeping an open mind to the truth.

>> No.11178974

>>11178960
Haaha, I teach others my stupid tripfaggot. By existing.

>> No.11178977

>>11178954
>>11178949
>liking Louis CK
Spotted the fags

>> No.11178985

>>11178949
>who think they re hot shit every time they have a new thought
What did you mean by this boomer?

>> No.11178996

>>11178836
Just ask yourself, was there ever a time in your life when you felt like the former you did something stupid and cringy?

>> No.11179018

>>11178996
No, because I don't live a life where I associate with trends at all.

>> No.11179030

>>11179018
You should screenshot this because in couple of years you will laught as this.

>> No.11179051

>>11179030
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1453vg48mhE

>> No.11179143

>>11178985
Lmao

I turned 26 this year so im starting to hate you cunts

young people experience so much stuff for the first time i guess so they think that their thoughts are revolutionary/interesting. Older people have seen the same shit over and over again and can see how theyre just slight variations of stuff, at best, that has been said or done hundreds of times before. They feel less confident, i suppose

>>11178977
lol ok

>> No.11179200

Some people just naturally live better than others, in a way that is more agreeable with a proper path. Age does not matter in this regard.

You've chosen the word wisdom. Which implies making the correct choice consciously but that isn't the most important thing in the world.

>> No.11179216

To an extent. The utility of age (controlling for intelligence etc) is like a parabola with the vertex being somewhere in your mid 40s. In your 20s you lack context which you get in your 30s, but in your late 50s it falls off very hard because your understanding of the world in its current state is, in most cases, pretty poor. There is the exception if you're involved in serious academia or in the military because you're kind of mentally stunted because you live your life in a bubble. If you went to college in 2008 and got your PhD in 2016 your perception of the great recession would be significantly different from some hopeless bastard who graduated in 2011.

>> No.11179225

>>11179216
such a worthless presumptuous and grasping post, bye /lit/ im going to become a deterritorialized lemur and wander the hallway of my apt

>> No.11179665

>>11178888
>to unduly
David and Saul
Christ and the elders..
>the stories abound

>> No.11179801

>>11179665
Saul ended up being evil and tried to kill David, what on Earth are you smoking, newfriend?

>> No.11179877

>>11178888
Out of everyone who lies for their own benefit why did you single out Jordan Peterson?

Did you want to make this a thread about him?

>> No.11179917

There's no reason to respect someone simply for their age; wisdom and intellect are indifferent and scattered. Often times age means stagnation.Also, a PhD isn't a sign of intelligence.

>> No.11179936

>>11178873
Sam Harris has a PhD.

>> No.11179947

>>11178836
It depends. There’s highly successful 25 year olds that work for the CIA and have been running around in foreign countries the second they got out of college, and there’s deadbeat 35 year olds that can’t even be assed to pick up a Budweiser bottle from their floor.

It largely comes down to the individual, but in a broader sense age tends to infer a better understanding of the world around you through lived experience. Which is why undergraduate students since time immemorial have been a source of annoying political trends totally detached from the actual world, but the vast majority of the population just rolls their eyes at them.

>> No.11179953

>>11178836
>being so young that your example of "aged wisdom" is 35 fucking years old.

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>>11178888
Nice quads

Peterson's very sincere dough

>> No.11179985

Wisdom is a spook
>>11178879
>reee kill all le christcucks its FALSE becuz I SED SO
Please fuck off, liberal bigot. Nobody cares about your optics.
>>11178960
Truth doesn't exist. Why are you liberals always such Platonists?

>> No.11180007

>>11178873
Hegel had a PhD

>> No.11180026

>>11178960
A wise person wouldn't insult another person's religion and political stance ins such a backhanded manner, nor would he narcissistically post under a tripcode.

>> No.11180032

>>11179985
>Truth doesn't exist. Why are you liberals always such Platonists?
>>11178548
>>11178623
>>11178639

>> No.11180080

>>11178873
>heh stupid pseuds wasting their time on a phd instead of shitposting online like a real intellectual

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>>11180026
Shows what you know.
My being anti-theist is like a mother wanting her children to not drink.
And I have many many drunkards in my brood. It breaks my heart to see you led so astray. I still love you though, my child.

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>>11180104
>Believes in Truth
>Atheist

>> No.11180151

>>11180104
Hella frickin epic. I’m an antitheist now, thanks!

>> No.11180162

>>11178836
Depends on your definition of 'wiser'. If you mean 'more experienced', then I'd say 'no', unless the 35 PhD holder lived a pretty uneventful life while getting their PhD and got it before becoming 25 and quickly became comatose for 10+ years. There's different ways to be smart, a common difference being 'book smart' (unpracticed theoretics) vs 'street smart' (first-hand experience with the public and the way society works in its 'natural environment' as it were rather than spending all your time in the protection of your own home at all possible hours when not somewhere fairly removed and isolated from typical day-to-day life like at an institution of learning. Generally such an institution is about learning via means other than hands-on, or if it's hands-on then it's very artificial, like learning to do CPR on a practice dummy which is something I've done before. I have 'book smarts' and 'theoretical knowledge' on providing CPR but not 'street smarts' or 'first-hand experience with the public' on providing CPR.

So I say again, Kermit the frog here, bucko. I mean, 'it depends on your definition of wiser'. Personally, I rather like the whiskey.