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[Fermentator75]

Information overload will drive you mad. Conformity is designed to keep the herd in check. Too many renegades and rebels running wild will only cause anarchy. Conform and get happy or look around and detest most everything.

I too think too much. I am extremely firm in my opinions and it pains me to see certain things commonplace and stubbornly projected from those certain believers. Example: righteous relijoe's. Faith is exactly that, a personal belief, so keep it to your self. Book smarts: with enough effort any person of average intelligence can do it. I will use my friend Joey as an example. Dean's list every semester. He worked his ass off and couldn't understand how come I was always at the bar and still getting solid grades. Or not. Just O.K. with what I received in certain subjects of lesser importance to me. Heart of gold. Driving in a car with him has many times made me hate him as a person. He borders on retarded. He is happy because he functions at a lower level of intelligence I am certain. He is robot like in his stupidity but he gets his bills paid and does his thing. His thing would drive me bat shit if it was my thing.

My thing is all over the damn place. Yeah, I have been told I am an amazing artist. Wouldn't it be nice to have all the time to make art but guess what. Working to make money kills creativity because you get tired. Then you get tired of working. Then you get shafted and hope your retarded friend can let you crash his couch. Intelligence is finding a way to survive a routine that doesn't suck your soul dry and puts a roof over your head and you better put some money away for the inevitable freak out. Intelligence is marrying rich. Happiness is Lakers games, women, live music and surfing. Don't analyze mainstream society to your death, because no matter how much you hate them, there is an army of amberzombies and bitchz consuming. Intelligence is not drinking milk>the deadly poison. Kill your TV.

[tomato]

[Steelrails]

The things that make a person smart have little to do with what makes someone happy I feel.

Sometimes what one thinks will make them happy does not make them happy.

It has been my experience that those who overpride themselves on intelligence and think that someone should always try to be 'more smarter' are in the same group as those people who always need one more mod on their car or their computer, or one more outfit.

As long as someone lives in a world where they try to present themselves as being better than someone else, they will perpetually be unhappy.

One look at all the posters on these forums who rip on Koreans for being dumb, yet are clearly unhappy, says much. Congratulations, you are better and smarter and all that. Now what?

Perhaps one way to be happy is to think less about what to do, and just do.

Just go play basketball, draw, drink, read, write that novel you always wanted to, fingerpaint, play duck-duck goose, whatever. Sooner or later something will come along.

[AgentM]

[rusty1983]

There are different kinds of intelligence though arent there? Some of the most academically gifted people I know are retarded socially. I remember a guy at university who absolutely ruled in class debates, he was a level above me and I rarely understood what he was saying. Yet get him in the pub and he was a bit of a fool.

Same goes for another guy back in high school. He was miles ahead of the rest of the year in nearly every class but went crazy when the teenage years kicked in. He wouldnt talk to anyone and used to walk around like he was attached to the wall. It was obviously a case of him being too clever for his own good. While everyone else was playing footy and what have you he had some mad mad stuff going through his brain.

Id like to back up what others have said. You wont get through life if you believe you are smarter than others. I used to think I was some sort of genius but you just set yourself up for a fall, time and again. You can be really clever but in my opinion experience counts for more, someone who has been round the block a few times and is a bit streetwise can outsmart you. In fact people who obviously think theyre really intelligent cos theyve got a good degree and read a few books mark themselves out as fools.

My life has gotten much easier since I realised I am not and never will be the most intelligent person alive.

[MissSeoul]

[alphakennyone]

[Cheonmunka]

Another inexplicability: Samuel Clemens, Dostoevsky, et al, were brilliant writers - able to dig into the hidden thoughts that men and women carry. Yet, when it came to their personal finances they got swindled by real people who had those very same hidden motivations.

[tomato]

Rusty1983, Alpha Kenny One, and Cheonmunka all sound like they have known people like me.

[ddeubel]

He who knows the buddha, does not know the buddha...

DD
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[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

He is stupid
but he knows that he is stupid
and that almost makes him smart

[beercanman]

It is true that few people are entirely smart I reckon. Smart as can be in some ways and dumb as a brick in others: a common thing. After all, no one of us be prefect...

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Morning_Star]