having more intelligence

a utility to what? how does all of your knowledge serve you techie? and im not saying this to start a tcf drama but the fact of the matter is, when all is said and done it's not what or who you know, its how you chose to live your life...

so if that knowledge makes you a happier person, than i say balls to the walls, but don't go thinking you're above the same life lessons as the rest of us...

everyone possesses the knowledge they need to be a "utility" to themselves, and that's what should matter, not who knows more about thermodynamics when it truly doesnt affect your day to day life....

 

I have a good friend who has a Ph.D. in philosophy from a prestigious university. He's studied with some pretty big names over the years, and in several different countries. He's a genuinely brilliant man...and, in his spare time after dinner, he guides my study of philosophy.

And when I've read some philosophical work, I talk it over with him. And when I'm way off, he tells me so and points to where or how I might have thought about it to avoid whatever problem I was walking into. And when I'm way off but still possibly right, he tells me that, too.

So, he sometimes learns something from our talks, just by getting a completely fresh perspective on something that he's studied for years.

If he were a professor of Mathematics, there wouldn't be shit I could teach him. But in philosophy, there are no experts. There are just well-read and not-so-well-read people debating stuff.

So, it doesn't seem to me that philosophy requires much real intelligence besides pure rhetorical ability. Whatever you can defend convincingly is just as right as anything else anyone else might have come up with.

It's like a sport or a mental circle-jerk.

Still, it's fun.

 

the original post was far too long and poorly formatted for me to read without further indication of its worth, and the replies it got on the first page failed to provide me with that evidence.

but i do feel smarter now that i'm aware of the thread's existence.

 

Being able to do things makes me happy, knowledge is power in that it is freedom, and the capacity to quickly acquire knowledge is a strength

you need knowledge to do anything, from baking a cake, to building a small pulse-jet to attach to a bass wood racecar.

Aerospace engineering is what I want to know because I want to design weapons to mitigate collateral damage (imagine instead of dropping a 1000 lb bomb on a building, killing everyone inside, throwing a small "glide bomb" a third the weight at target, and using shaped charges to fire an armor piercing javelin at your target, a single person, no dead innocents)

that's possible with today's technology (easily.) would even work

 

Start on page 13.

 

hence the good luck lol I couldnt get passed the quantum physics if it makes you feel any better.

 

Ah yes--the advancement of civlization.

 

happiness is what matters

arrogance in knowledge is nothing more than a platform to fall off of.

i admire passion and respect a person on a mission, but it is a fine line to walk.

 

that was entertaining for a while, although i really should have read the whole thing since starting in the middle caused me to miss the basic premise of what was being discussed...

at least i have a better idea where the "why do people think i'm sensitive about being a virgin" thread came from...

i'm more of a math person anyway.

 

Are you saying that all humans have exactly the same level of intelligence? Or do you think that only true of this forum?

 

wurd. you could not have said it any better. :cheers2:

but it 'costs' intelignece to know how to pretend to be inteligent!

 

you can't be that smart if you signed up for this place...

 

taken much too literally, we are all skilled in a combination of different areas, some of it is innate, some of it is learned. regardless of how it came to fruition none of us are truly "better" than anyone else if we actually and genuinely believe that we are...

if we were to tally up each individuals points for knowledge in each area, im pretty sure in the end it would come damn close to being equal...there are obviously exceptions, but not many,

 

hahahhahah, you always summarize it so much better than i do:cheers2:

 

Count the basket, and the foul. That's your ESPN Play of the Day, ladies and gentlemen.

 

didnt mean to start something

but hey its entertaining

 

arrogance about a lack of knowledge is even worse.

 

that seems like hippy bullshit.

there are a lot of really smart people who are socially athletically, spatially kinesthetically able


and there are a lot of retarded people who are ataxic socially retarded, etc.

I don't buy this equality shit for a second.

 

you wouldn't, cause then you would have to admit that you're not superior...

 

How's this then Dave... we are all born with equal opportunities to acquire knowledge and skill as we travel through life.

Some choose not to take those opportunities and spurn those as do....