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[QUOTE=Lebron23]F*ck you G00K. You're in your late 20's when you graduated in College. You are way past your prime. You will never be a millionaire, and a lawyer like me. Kiss my @$$ Bitchhhhhhhhhhhhh.[/QUOTE]
spoken like a millionaire lawyer :oldlol: :oldlol:
[QUOTE=Nanners]spoken like a millionaire lawyer :oldlol: :oldlol:[/QUOTE]
:cheers:
The guy is a douche bag.
[QUOTE=Nanners]
another thing on depression - the more i learn about the world, the more I ask myself how an educated individual can NOT be depressed. as an environmentalist, i dont see how it is possible for me to not be depressed. the way humans treat each other and the way we treat our giant organic spaceship is just flat out depressing.
we live in a society where we celebrate selfishness and stupidity, how can i not be depressed?[/QUOTE]
IMO you are looking at the glass half empty
there are plenty of us out there that are good spirited and loving...and plenty of people that don't celebrate stupidity.
the Earth may be doomed but IMO that could be seen as the nature and evolution of intelligent life...I bet life is destroying planets all over the universe...the "clean up period" will come for us generations later...MANY generations later
for me personaly, I feel that life is way too short...there is so much I would like to do and not nearly enough time.
[QUOTE=-p.tiddy-]IMO you are looking at the glass half empty
there are plenty of us out there that are good spirited and loving...and plenty of people that don't celebrate stupidity.
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I agree there are plenty of loving and good spirited people in the world, i am lucky enough to be friends/family with many of them.
I was speaking more generally, that as a society we celebrate selfishness and stupidity. an excellent example of this is the reality tv culture. you brought up kim kardashian earlier, the fact that many more people know about kim kardashian or snooki instead of someone like neil degrasse tyson is flat out depressing to me. when you look at common qualities of popular and famous people, stupidity and selfishness are becoming cornerstones.
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the Earth may be doomed but IMO that could be seen as the nature and evolution of intelligent life...I bet life is destroying planets all over the universe...the "clean up period" will come for us generations later...MANY generations later
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glaciers are disappearing, amphibians and fish are going extinct at crazy rates, air and water quality are decreasing day after day, our environment is being filled with new exotic chemicals that have hardly even been tested.... that is flat out depressing.
[QUOTE=Nanners]I agree there are plenty of loving and good spirited people in the world, i am lucky enough to be friends/family with many of them.
I was speaking more generally, that as a society we celebrate selfishness and stupidity. an excellent example of this is the reality tv culture. you brought up kim kardashian earlier, the fact that many more people know about kim kardashian or snooki instead of someone like neil degrasse tyson is flat out depressing to me. when you look at common qualities of popular and famous people, stupidity and selfishness are becoming cornerstones.
glaciers are disappearing, amphibians and fish are going extinct at crazy rates, air and water quality are decreasing day after day, our environment is being filled with new exotic chemicals that have hardly even been tested.... that is flat out depressing.[/QUOTE]
I guess who is famous is kind of depressing but IMO it isn't anything to lose sleep over, I grew up being influenced by gangsta rap which IMO is much worse than anything Kim or Snooki could influence.
When you said you were depressed by society I thought you meant war/rape/murder/torture/etc...not reality TV, we are always going to find dumb shit to entertain us
the Earth going to shit is also very depressing...yes, I agree
I still think we are a very long way away from seeing anything drastic...the sea level has risen how much over the past 100 years?...like a few inches?...the temp gone up a couple degrees maybe?...yeah it's an issue, but more of one for my great-great-great-great-great grandkids than me...and I hope they have a good solution
that nig trey
i are smrt
[QUOTE=magic chiongson]i are smrt[/QUOTE]
I concur.
[QUOTE=magic chiongson]i are smrt[/QUOTE]
Smartest dumb guy on ISH :D
thank you. thank you.
Kblaze is dumb as fk. He just knows a lot of basketball and makes low quality mixes.
[QUOTE=Lebron23]:cheers:
The guy is a douche bag.[/QUOTE]
You can even sense sarcasm, you plagiarize everything and you're an emotional wreck and a compulsive liar.
You are at the bottom of the poll, by far the biggest idiot on this forum.
[QUOTE=Story Up]I love eating my dog's poop.[/QUOTE]
Be quiet fat boy!!!
[QUOTE=RidonKs]dude you belong in that top seven, as do about three dozen others[/QUOTE]
thanks. i tend to fall in to the 'idiot who's smart' category, or vice-versa. the defining theme for me is probably something along the lines of "he's smart, but psychologically he's a moron. in polite terms. something like that.
part of that evaluation might stem from the fact that women in particular are wired to respond to non-verbal communication, and that tends to put me in shaky territory. women sort of provide the backbone of societal critique towards a person, and if i'm having a good day, for example, women tend to feel very homey towards me, thereby boosting my self esteem. but on bad days, when i'm typically depressed or torn-up over any number of possible issues, stone-faced towards the world, women pick up on my "passivity" and clearly want to be a million miles away from me. that hurts, and that makes me feel smaller.
anyway, point is... i do tend to have an elevated respect for smart people who are 'together'. people who are smart and able to weather society, even if it's just, say, deucewallaces having the bottomless chutzpa to tell everyone else they're an idiot for not agreeing with him, repeat to eternity, which is more or less his specialty.
i.e., i might test right around your same level on IQ tests, but without your level of self-confidence and well-being, i'm simply not going to perform at your level in real life. but again, that's life. a healthy hippocampus and productive neurochemistry mean worlds upon worlds, if you know what i mean. i.e. huge mental edges IME.
anyway, the seven people on my list i judge to be not only the smartest people here by an IQ measure, but also by an effective-living measure. smart people who aren't rattled by much, are self-confident, and who have a level of... let's say, righteousness... imposing their will upon others, even after struggling past the dunning-freddy krueger effect, if you know what i mean. heh.
but seriously, 'smartness' has many components... many brain regions going in to play upon the term. there is also the fact that one can be 'smart' yet be decisively humbled by someone who is 'smart but brilliant.' even if they follow a sport like basketball for some god-inexplicable reason. :D
nice description. i think most behavior for anybody, regardless of how put together they may seem, is reactionary and never solely on their own terms. way you described it 'being able to weather society' is nicely put because it cuts to the gut of the matter... putting up with everybody's shit and just doing your darndest to do you, to whatever degree you can manage. the tip top pinnacle of lifestyle imo begins with understanding that you have your own voice and can express a thought as well as anybody else, and eventually ends with understanding that everybody else has the same thing... and your best opportunity to learn comes through paying attention to what other people have to say. eventually you come to realize you aren't the only important voice in the room; and nor are you merely a voice lost in a sea of other voices; you're an important voice in a sea of important voices. living in that, dare i extend the metaphor a lil further, oceanic flow of experience where you're just a single mind bouncing around thousands of other minds and getting the most out of every critical interpretation you make... that's the benchmark of living that everybody should and totally could strive for.
unfortunately in the midst of that beautiful utopian conception of humanity, there's all that other petty shit with relationships and bitterness and non-reciprocating love and everything else that causes you to forget what's really important.
and that's just another bs rant with nothing to do with intelligent whatsoever... brought to you by ridonks
Cant forget the voices that like to talk just for the sake of hearing themselves talk. I'd place those those under the "less important" category. For the most part I agree with your perspective. Everyone observes the world differently and has a different opinion about it, which stems from our most basic instinct which is survival. Unfortunately some people are in the habit of talking from perspectives they have never experienced or been affected by, in which case they need to keep their opinions in their brains. Naturally media plays a big role in that.
[QUOTE=-p.tiddy-][url]http://www.nicholascreative.com/footballiq/index.php?reset=true[/url]
^^^ a sample of what the NFL uses to calculate intelligence
IMO true intelligence doesn't necessarily translate into how well you come across on a message board, some of the world's most intelligent people would come of as complete weirdos in here.
and some of the people that come of very friendly and down to Earth in here could possibly be awful problem solvers...because they lack the brain power.
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I'm smarter than Eli Manning :pimp:[/QUOTE]
I was hoping others here would take this...
again, this is a sample of what the NFL uses to calculate intelligence...the wonderlic...the highest you can score is 50
problem solving uses brain power, much more than having well contructed posts in here IMO...I don't like the idea that intelligence can be calculated by posts on an NBA message board.
Intelligence is a tricky thing to evaluate. Problem solving and analytics is within anyone's capacity should they seek that knowledge. In my opinion intelligence should be measured by a persons inquisitiveness and what they choose to fill their brains with. Most morons I come across in my life are usually into mind numbing crap like reality shows, horoscopes, religion, sports, basically any hive mind activity that is easy to follow due to societies constraints. The truly brilliant people I have met are into physics, history, sociology, psychology, and other various sciences. I could be wrong (obviously) but I think all people have the capacity to be intelligent, just not the drive or in most cases resources.
tldr IQ tests are bullshit.
[QUOTE=Hazard]Intelligence is a tricky thing to evaluate. Problem solving and analytics is within anyone's capacity should they seek that knowledge. In my opinion intelligence should be measured by a persons inquisitiveness and what they choose to fill their brains with. Most morons I come across in my life are usually into mind numbing crap like reality shows, horoscopes, religion, sports, basically any hive mind activity that is easy to follow due to societies constraints. The truly brilliant people I have met are into physics, history, sociology, psychology, and other various sciences. I could be wrong (obviously) but I think all people have the capacity to be intelligent, just not the drive or in most cases resources.
tldr IQ tests are bullshit.[/QUOTE]
So you view intelligence as what one chooses to fill his head with or spend his time doing?
what if the one that likes "dumb things" is a much better problem solver, catches on quicker, is a faster learner, plans things out better, etc?
The most important type of intelligence in my opinion is the ability to analyze your method of approaching a problem and be able to adapt your methodology and then apply prior knowledge. I don't have this and very few people actually do. College students may know the honed pedagogically efficient methods taught in textbooks, but lack the insight and intuition of inventors like newton and einstein who were stumbling in the dark.
[QUOTE=shlver]The most important type of intelligence in my opinion is the ability to analyze your method of approaching a problem and be able to adapt your methodology and then apply prior knowledge. I don't have this and very few people actually do. College students may know the honed pedagogically efficient methods taught in textbooks, [B]but lack the insight and intuition of inventors like newton and einstein who were stumbling in the dark.[/B][/QUOTE]
the other thing people tend to forget about those guys is the amount of time they spent working. we have this image that they sat down one night and banged out their respective theories. they wouldn't sleep or eat for large periods of time because they were engrossed in their work. it is motivation and dedication that got them to where they were too.
[QUOTE=The_Yearning]Kblaze is dumb as fk. He just knows a lot of basketball and makes low quality mixes.[/QUOTE]
How can you say KBlaze knows a lot about basketball then call him dumb? What else has he ever talked about on ISH? :oldlol:
[QUOTE=StroShow4]How can you say KBlaze knows a lot about basketball then call him dumb? What else has he ever talked about on ISH? :oldlol:[/QUOTE]
Buying and selling decrepit old houses in South Carolina to poor black people for profit.
[QUOTE=-p.tiddy-]I was hoping others here would take this...
again, this is a sample of what the NFL uses to calculate intelligence...the wonderlic...the highest you can score is 50
problem solving uses brain power, much more than having well contructed posts in here IMO...I don't like the idea that intelligence can be calculated by posts on an NBA message board.[/QUOTE]
I don't believe that you scored a 40 on the first time.
[QUOTE=QUIZZLE]I don't believe that you scored a 40 on the first time.[/QUOTE]
It was my second, first try 36...I'm sure if I tried long enough I could get a 50.
It was not the first time I have taken that though, I was shown that a couple years ago on an NFL site in a thread talking about the wonderlic...don't remember what I scored then.
The real wonderlic is 10 minutes long and I believe they take it three times and take the best score of the 3.
It isn't perfect obviously but it does show something that isn't displayed in writing in here...problem solving doesn't care about how ignorant or stubborn or unfriendly you are...it doesn't care if your vocabulary is high, it is brain power in a form as raw as possible, like a chess game, its your brains ability to out think the situation.
Someone like Bobby Fisher might come in here and post like an ignorant retard (I think he is racist actually) but the reality of the situation is that he is a genius.
crap... i'd gone and forgotten about hazard.
Thanks for those that mentioned me.
I will rep right now.
>Earth is doomed
But it's not. Even if Humanity was to disappear, Earth would still be here. Plus Earth is doomed anyways cos the sun gonna eat it.
you guys are funny.
:oldlol:
Attractiveness is obviously a subjective thing to measure, but so is intelligence. Measuring IQ is an effort to do this and asking people to rate someone's looks is similarly an effort to measure attractiveness.
As for the stereotypes, first of all, I bet Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt would look a lot worse if they also suffered from ALS and were at Hawking's age and vice versa, Hawking would look a lot more attractive if he was healthy and had trained professionals deal with his appearance all the time.
Second, being a cheerleader doesn't automatically qualify you as a bimbo (though I don't consider it the smartest choice to participate in one the riskiest athletic activities around), neither does not being a cheerleader qualify you as non-attractive - I know for a fact there are tons of attractive girls who would never want to become cheerleaders.
Honestly, the "ugly but smart" stereotype is one I never quite understood. Even judging from IQ, when you see people with very high scores, rarely do you find any who would score low in the attractiveness department. Similarly, people with very low scores usually give out a bad visual image, as well - go to asylums, mental hospitals, you aren't finding lots of attractive people. Want less extreme examples? Take hard labor jobs, manual jobs and most jobs that don't require any decent intelligence. You're not likely to find lots of people to be physically attracted to. Go to prisons, the vast majority of prisoners are physically plain ugly, and though there are some highly smart criminals (and even they are usually not the unattractive ones), the average prisoner is definitely a below average intelligence person.
All the afore-mentioned are stereotypes as well, but they are more substantiated than the "smart & ugly" and "beautiful and dumb" ones.
Oh, and for the title of the smartest poster in the board, at least among the ones I've known a little bit, Tharegul8r is my choice - his experience helps as well, but still I've not met many people with his experience with a similar level of intelligence.
Its funny that im probably the smartest person here. but peoople won't admit it. But will in due time.
Everything hidden will always come to the light.
[QUOTE=Bladers]Its funny that im probably the smartest person here. but peoople won't admit it. But will in due time.
Everything hidden will always come to the light.[/QUOTE]
Of course you think you're the smartest man here, it goes on the list of most deluded, insane and down right annoying.
[QUOTE=step_back]Of course you think you're the smartest man here, it goes on the list of most deluded, insane and down right annoying.[/QUOTE]
how much do you make?
[url]http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271045[/url]
now stfu you bum!
I am most likely in the 94th percentile
[QUOTE=-p.tiddy-]I was hoping others here would take this...
again, this is a sample of what the NFL uses to calculate intelligence...the wonderlic...the highest you can score is 50
problem solving uses brain power, much more than having well contructed posts in here IMO...I don't like the idea that intelligence can be calculated by posts on an NBA message board.[/QUOTE]
Took it and got a 43. I got them all right, but I entered one in incorrectly and didn't finish 15.
[IMG]http://www.nicholascreative.com/footballiq/index.php?action=timeout[/IMG]
Well we can safely eliminate the OP. "Absolute smartest":biggums:
[QUOTE=Bladers]Its funny that im probably the smartest person here. but peoople won't admit it. But will in due time.
Everything hidden will always come to the light.[/QUOTE]
:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:
I don't post much in the OTC, so I don't even know half the posters you listed, but if I had to pick a guy from the main forums it would be KnoeItawl. In fact he seems like your typical overly-intelligent asshole. You can tell the guy is a genius but he also comes off as bat shit crazy. :lol
j$ is up there. ridonks as well. deucewallaces withholds alot of his intelligence and instead uses his wit to sh!t on people, but he's a smart buttercup.
[QUOTE=Bladers]Its funny that im probably the smartest person here. but peoople won't admit it. But will in due time.[/QUOTE]
funny?? i'm sure peoople consider it downright hilarious!
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bonus question: what happens when a person burdened by a god complex looks up the definition of "god complex?"
do they see themselves mirrored back? i would assume not, so the real question is- what type of rationalization do they usually fall in to in order to hold off the forces of self-consciousness?
less godly minds want to know.
[QUOTE=Bladers]how much do you make?
[url]http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271045[/url]
now stfu you bum![/QUOTE]
Everyone on ISH makes that kind of money. We're all 6'4 Bodybuilding CEO Rock Stars too.