What Makes Us Wise?

To me, wisdom is the ability to discern the world as it is and not as how we want it to be. What do I mean by that? Religious people see the divine hand of God in everything around them while atheists see proof of the lack of divine intervention in the ways of the world. The same world, but two interpretations.
The only way to become wise is to become a skeptic and strip away the myriad belief systems that comprise our world. Belief systems like conservativism or liberalism, being green or even healthy eating inform all of our actions and thoughts or rather misinform them. Oddly, obtaining knowledge of many belief systems is the way to become a skeptic. If you are knowledgeable about many religions, it becomes harder to believe just one, for there is beauty in each.
Seeking to understand all points of view and all ways of life is the best way to discern that there really is not one right way to believe or perceive or be, and then one can become wise.
btw – I have put up a website with how beliefs can wreak havoc in corporate America at http://whomovedmyholyhandgrenade.com Still a work in progress, though.
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