Reply #30: I've never known a particularly wise religious person [View All]

[GliderGuider]

But I have met a few wise people in my life - Stephen Lewis, Romeo Dallaire, a handful of mere mortals, and perhaps my father.

"Wisdom" as a type of knowledge may be received. Wisdom as a way of thinking can't be received -- it comes from within the individual.

"Objectivity" is a shibboleth of our culture because of the adoption of the scientific method as the supreme arbiter of value. Scientific objectivity is much like journalistic objectivity, though -- it looks very real from afar, but the closer you look the more diaphanous it becomes (and you don't even need to invoke the name of St. Heisenberg the Uncertain to realize that). That's not to say that objectivity in either field isn't important, just that to count on the ultimate reality of either is to present yourself at the entrance to a trap.