Quote from: debianlinux on January 04, 2013, 04:12:58 PM

With this post I cross into the new permissions of a Jr. Member. However, noob is a state of mind. I came onto this forum not knowing what I did not know which is a noob state of mind. In this state I resented the restrictions placed upon my account. As I have read post after post I have begun to know that which I still do not know. I am aware, to some degree of my ignorance. This is is still a noob state of mind but is one that presents less danger to myself and to others. Should I ever reach a point where I think I know all there is to know I will have come full circle for I will then not know that which I do not know. I will still be a noob but a dangerous one at that. So long as I remain secure in the knowledge that I do not know I can practice noobility with safety.

Well said ex-resentful sir.

I might add to this wonderful exposition, that there may also lie a danger in the opposite direction -- in not "knowing" (with confidence) that which you do know.