Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2018

But how do you live if you haven’t already learned how?

Quite frankly, I think he had it correct….Live and learn? Seriously, living and THEN learning doesn’t make a lot of sense. How can you learn if you’re not living?

I’ve lived but I’m not sure I have learned. After all I still make comments here.

Well, he has plenty of time to learn now. He has eternity.

He lived long enough to only have old people at his funeral.

Just as an aside, that’s a really shallow grave…. I have officiated many funerals and stand right up to the edge of them, so I get to look down in them a lot. Never actually fell into one before, but one of my colleagues did – the soft ground gave way just enough for him to slide under the casket into the grave.

How about “Live TO Learn”?

In a slightly wordier form: if you have tried something new and lived, you have learned. If you failed and lived you have learned. If you failed and expired, c’est la vie.

A favorite quote: Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

Corollary: Maturity is the result of our eventual acknowledgment of our own ignorance in earlier years and the realization of our incredible good fortune in being able to look back and be improved by the experience. -sandpiper75 (2013) in a moment of reflection on the results of 77 years of living and learning

As Howland Owl said to Pogo: “Don’t take life so serious, son. It ain’t nohow permanent.”

The more you learn the more you know you don’t know———yet.

Open the door to knowledge and find more doors on the other side in need of opening. A never ending increase in Human knowledge. Unless we destroy our civilization as see seem to be doing. AGW will do it or severely retard our society then.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. – Donald Rumsfeld

Apparently, doing it his way failed miserably…

In the more active, tool-handling period of my life, we sometimes had a “Learning Experience”. Those often involved a noisy, smelly, or otherwise nasty and sudden event, with associated tissue damage. ‘Lots of associations, from Nietzsche’s being made stronger, to RTFM…

Perhaps he worked on the bomb squad. Learn and Live indeed.

When I was younger and using tools, we sometimes had a “learning experience” that was life-threatening. Every scar was a lesson.

Live to learn, and learn to live.

Congratulations Go Comics, you’ve doubled your clicks by use of the annoying “Overview”. You sure fooled you advertisers.

Live and let die.

They ran out of room, They left out Longer.