the intellect wrote:
I have always ben an extremely intelligent being.
Credibility ... GONE!
the intellect wrote:
I have always ben an extremely intelligent being.
Credibility ... GONE!
All intelligent people know this.
You cannot brag about anything on a message board. That is a no no no no.
It will always be,
I'm tall, dark and handsome.
Everyone....bullsxzu.
I'm short, fat and stupid.
Everyone....yep, nailed it.
Human nature,
Those blessed with intelligence don't come off as pretentious because they don't concern themselves with impressing others. In fact, the truly gifted are often quite funny, charming and engaging. They find areas of mutual interest and develop quick rapport with others.
conversationalist wrote:
Those blessed with intelligence don't come off as pretentious because they don't concern themselves with impressing others. In fact, the truly gifted are often quite funny, charming and engaging. They find areas of mutual interest and develop quick rapport with others.
Ok, then nobody here has an ounce of intelligence.
assessment wrote:
conversationalist wrote:
Those blessed with intelligence don't come off as pretentious because they don't concern themselves with impressing others. In fact, the truly gifted are often quite funny, charming and engaging. They find areas of mutual interest and develop quick rapport with others.
Ok, then nobody here has an ounce of intelligence.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
But the OP pretty well announced his/her trollage right from the start, by using "whence" (which means "from where") rather than "whilst"; and by saying "thou is" rather than "thou art."
It's all just for mild amusement, in other words. I give the OP 4/10--would have been rated a bit lower, but it engendered a little discussion.
You only come off as pretentious when you think you're smarter than everyone else and don't realize that you aren't.
Not bad enough wrote:
Start by looking up the definition of "whence", you mis-used it.
So he's a dual threat. He's ignorant and pretentious.
In other words: OP, if you stick to posting about running, you'll fit right in.
the intellect wrote:
Title provokes it all basically. I have always ben an extremely intelligent being. Recently I have started microdosing serotonergic psychedelics and my intellectual capacity has skyrocketed into another dimension. I try to be patient around stupid people (everyone except me and a select few on this board), but must admit I find myself becoming irritated at times. I do make use of benzodiazepines at times when the irritation becomes too much for me, but I do not enjoy taking them often due to the sedative effects they have on my body. How do other Letsrunners calm themselves in the midst of all the stupidity surrounding themselves in the natural world? I dont want it to happen, but I am aware that one of these days I am going to snap. For now I am suppressing my rage by staying in my room at my parents house and immersing myself in kino, but suppression only works for so long. It is simply a matter of time before a pressure heater with no relief valve explodes when exposed to heat (in this case stupid people). What is your solution Letsrun?
That's a long post for someone supposedly smart
Truly intelligent people don't spend all day thinking about how superior they are. They have better things to do.
Real intelligence is a slave to creation. Intelligence wants to create. It wants to contribute.
It is the beasts who posture and piss on their homes
true brilliance wrote:
I recognized immediately that you are nowhere near as smart as you think you are. People with higher intelligence can easily spot others who are gifted like themselves, and I can say with certainty that your IQ is pitifully average. If you honestly think you're smarter than most people, consider this:
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.
An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.
My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed Letsrun, Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
Hopefully you get the idea. I realize that this may be too difficult for you to grasp but I can't be bothered to slow down so that all of you mental midgets can catch up. Maybe in a few years when I'm running a trillion dollar company I can find you a job in one of my offices.
Nice followup, but you sound even more pretentious than in your original post. Try to keep your username straight.
I couldn't get past the misuse of "whence thou is" in the subject line. I'm glad a couple of other readers picked up on that. I'm by no means an old English scholar, but: "whence" is kind of a like a synonym for "from where" "thou" is second person singular form of "you" -- referring, not to the OP, but directed at some familiar acquaintance of the OP, as the smart one "thou is" combines a second person pronoun with the third person conjugation of "to be" It sounds pretentious to those who don't understand old English. It sounds pretend to those who do.
p.n. wrote:
But the OP pretty well announced his/her trollage right from the start, by using "whence" (which means "from where") rather than "whilst"; and by saying "thou is" rather than "thou art."
It's all just for mild amusement, in other words. I give the OP 4/10--would have been rated a bit lower, but it engendered a little discussion.
Not to mention, combining the indefinite pronoun "one" with "thou" also seems rather awkward -- it could make sense if the OP was asking a friend, "how do you manage to not come off as pretentious, with you being so much smarter than everyone", but then the actual post makes it clear that is not the intended meaning.
Just the same, if the post was meant as a parody, and there is much to appreciate in it.
Not related, but the mis-use of "whence" reminds me Juliet pondering "wherefore art thou Romeo".