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From: Elizabeth Jane Beaumont Bissell <ebeaumnt@flagstaff.princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: Wisdom... 
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On 1 Dec 1994, William Barwell wrote:

> In article <3bjp14$r1t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
> mark gerald ford <mgford@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> >>He who knows not and knows that he knows not is lost. Guide him.
> >
> >I believe this is close to Socrates' definition of the wise man, not the
> >lost man. Would anyone agree with the Socraitic notion that wisdom is 
> >knowing that you'll never know completely, but always striving to know 
> >completely (with the assumption that the knowledge you possess now amounts 
> >to 'nothing')? Isn't this what Socrates' preached and lived?     
> >
> >--Mark F.
> > 
> 
> 
> He who steps on his dick is lost.  Zip up his pants and wipe his nose for 
> him.
>   - some old nobody or the other.

At least he knows that it is still there, or that the other thinks it is.

Phallogocentrism probably feels threatened by the zip-fastener. :)

Liz B. B.
