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[beercanman]

"...the only non-wanker here is the OP.."

aw. thx

You don't really know me tho. I can be as pretentious as everyone else.

Can't take it seriously anyway.

[AgentM]

[MollyBloom]

O son of Darius the Great:

I didn't edit anything or look over it carefully. My grammar is not always 100%. Maybe a lot of people type the same way they speak? With that said, I don't think typing style shows any intelligence or lack thereof.

[The Gipkik]

I wouldn't get too hung up on how people write here. Often it means didley. It all depends what forum you're on. Some forums get contributors who think flaming or sarcasm is the highest form of intelligence. Or they feel forum writers should write the same way they speak, and if they talk using a sardonic wit with laconic prison slang, then they be gladiators, yeah? You know, so you betta dummy up and stop sellin wolf tickets or I'll turn you out fasta than my latest and greatest fifi, you moist punk! Oh, yeah! Now I'm teachin, feelin like a yagg, but I'm no gun, you see, pard? Damn!

End of the day, most people, including yours truly OVERestimate their intelligence even as they be putting it down, you see?

[McGenghis]

Probably one of the more crushing periods in a young man's life is when he begins to realize that he is not the undiscovered jewel he had hitherto thought he was.

Then he begins to get old, and sag a little in the midsection, and then his hair falls out. And there isn't even a god around to curse anymore, so he ends up yelling at people who cut him off in the middle of one of his piddling diatribes and his only victories are when he beats a traffic light or some clerk gives him an extra dollar in change.

And just before the great Cataract of Death clouds over his vision, he probably thinks of how his second dog died on Christmas morning, right before the family opened their presents. The dog was named Corky or some such wacky thing.

[tomato]

McGenghis, have you been hacking my computer?

[meteor]

Too smart isn't an issue...particulalry when it depends on what you consider smart. Too dumb..now that's a problem.

[the boy next door]

i've been discriminated against all my life for being too smart, too good looking and too witty!

please, i'm beggin' please, somebody tell me what to do!

[Xerxes]

[Cheonmunka]

Intelligence, if it's measured during school testing, is all about how much you repeat what the teachers told you. Unfortunately, all my life I've been re-inventing the wheel without knowing it. I remained a B-C student because although I was an excellent speller and although my ideas were sometimes carefully explained often thoughts were sporadic and untried and were mere whims of the moment - even during an examination itself I'd try out a new idea. Hence, I didn't repeat what teachers wanted.
Does that make me less intelligent?
Well, try this: I have been earning more than a public NZ school principal earns for several years now.
I calculated that even though I spent ten years! in silly jobs, including bumming around on the dole for two and a half years playing guitar in a band then several years as a very happy uni. student, I still came out as though I had earned a decent average wage all that time.
But, money is not everything. Intelligent people are, often as not, morally responsible, hence they don't necessarily have a lot of monetary wealth. Although in the late middle years of one's life an intelligent person should not, saving calamity or dislike of insurance companies, be destitute IMHO.

[AgentM]

[MollyBloom]

[AgentM]

[shapeshifter]

[.38 Special]

When I was a kid, I thought that my mind was fully developed, that I could figure anything out, and that I would someday be the greatest writer of the twenty-first century.

Over time, I realized that I had a big problem: The reason why I thought that I was the most intelligent person was because I couldn't understand the intelligence of other people. I had a tough time comprehending the concept that other people had thoughts, saw the world totally different, and thought differently than I did -- sometimes substantially. This sounds like common sense, sure, but its a big concept for a young narcissist to wrap his noodle around.

It kind of really strikes home the line from theBhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Every consciousness has its own variation of the world within it, and death can literally wipe out a universe.

Realizing your limitations and your potential both is a big part of growing up.