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catsrus
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Unless you can read minds, I believe it’s safe to say that you do **NOT **know my IQ score.
What an egotistical and unwise child you are!
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What an egotistical and unwise child you are!
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wardrandolph
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ok,ill bite.Whats the place in life?The trouble with youth is its wasted on the young.(W.C.Fields)::
knowlege is knowing the fire will burn you,Wisdom is remembering the pain from when you stuck your finger in the fire.(cant remember where I read that).
knowlege is knowing the fire will burn you,Wisdom is remembering the pain from when you stuck your finger in the fire.(cant remember where I read that).
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kellie
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Nevarlander
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Godhead, I’m 20 and have an IQ of ~160.
I’m also young.
Since you think IQ means something, even though you denied it (you did bring it up), I’m also smart.
I also think that a lot of the time it’s older experienced people who give us youth wisdom, and we are lucky and get to piggyback on that without acknowledging that adults gave it to us. Sometimes we even ungratefully say that we came up with it ourselves.
When we do come up with “wisdom”, it’s generally, as Nietzsche said of mystical explanations, “not even shallow”. Read Proverbs or the Analects. Then read the poetry your classmates write on their MySpaces or the stuff in your school’s literary magazine. Which has more wisdom? The stuff grown men wrote, or the stuff that sixteen-year-olds wrote? Which are we still going to have in 100 years, or even ten years for that matter?
Just throwing this out there.
ETA: Well, what is the place in life? Or, could you reformulate that question? It makes no sense. What is the place of what in life?
And as to your opening statement “If you were so wise you would not have let youth slip away”: From what little I’ve seen of the rest of the world, youth always slips away. I think the only way that you can make your youth not slip away is to kill yourself, and really, who wants to do that? There’s so much great stuff out there. And even youth palls after a while. Right now I’m still in formation but I want to be out there “doing stuff”: marrying, having a small horde of children, getting famous enough in a small literary way so that people will namedrop me… and really, I don’t think you can hang on to youth while you’re doing all that. Life gets in the way of youthful absolute statements.
I’m also young.
Since you think IQ means something, even though you denied it (you did bring it up), I’m also smart.
I also think that a lot of the time it’s older experienced people who give us youth wisdom, and we are lucky and get to piggyback on that without acknowledging that adults gave it to us. Sometimes we even ungratefully say that we came up with it ourselves.
When we do come up with “wisdom”, it’s generally, as Nietzsche said of mystical explanations, “not even shallow”. Read Proverbs or the Analects. Then read the poetry your classmates write on their MySpaces or the stuff in your school’s literary magazine. Which has more wisdom? The stuff grown men wrote, or the stuff that sixteen-year-olds wrote? Which are we still going to have in 100 years, or even ten years for that matter?
Just throwing this out there.
ETA: Well, what is the place in life? Or, could you reformulate that question? It makes no sense. What is the place of what in life?
And as to your opening statement “If you were so wise you would not have let youth slip away”: From what little I’ve seen of the rest of the world, youth always slips away. I think the only way that you can make your youth not slip away is to kill yourself, and really, who wants to do that? There’s so much great stuff out there. And even youth palls after a while. Right now I’m still in formation but I want to be out there “doing stuff”: marrying, having a small horde of children, getting famous enough in a small literary way so that people will namedrop me… and really, I don’t think you can hang on to youth while you’re doing all that. Life gets in the way of youthful absolute statements.
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Mirdath
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If you wanna talk, talk. I fear you’re only going to make even more a laughingstock of yourself, though. (edit: that was a perfectly good and proper use of the word ‘***’ before I had to edit
)-Mirdath, who’s already figured out the meaning of life, thanksverymuch (it’s ‘don’t be a jerk’)
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PaulDupre
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136? Is that all? You are just a bit over 2 standard deviations above the mean. You would be considered slow-witted in my family, where the mean IQ is around 174. My sister has been clocked at 188. Out of 5 children my parents had, only one hasn’t earned his doctorate - yet. And it’s not me.
136 - hah!
Besides, native intellect means nothing without learning and mental discipline. There are millions of brilliant derelicts in this world. Most of those homeless guys you see on the street can spout sophomoric philosophy just as well as you can. I know - I feed them at my parish’s Christian Service mission. They sound a lot like you.
Grow up.
Paul
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xmydreamsfadex
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why do so called smart people have to tell people that they are smart? doesn’t sound so smart to me. i must not be that smart. 
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PaulDupre
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Godhead still hasn’t answered the question:
What is the place in life?
What is the place in life?
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Keikiolu
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While it is wise to “converse” with seven-day-olds, the quality of their wisdom is that of seven-day-olds.
What does their wisdom say to you, and what do you do with that wisdom?
What do you mean by the apparently nonsensical english phrase “the place in life”…?
So, you would KILL my “old intellect”?
Why is that necessary, and what is gained by your killing something that is not yours to “abuse”…?
If you seek to correct, or illuminate, that would be better, but to kill my intellect?
What is your “answer”?
What is the question that you propose to answer?
Why is your answer “the best”, and by what measure?
You want questions? I got questions. You got answers?
Let’s hear 'em.
Mahalo ke Akua…!
E pili mau na pomaika
i ia oe. Aloha nui.
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Keikiolu
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So making self-negating statements like the bolded above is a sign of wisdom?
If your IQ means nothing, then why does it make you smart?
That’s not a “smart” statement, dude.
Wow. No ego here…!
Go for it, buckeroo…!
What is “the place in life”…?
(( …anticipating endless and non sequitur babble. ))
Mahalo ke Akua…!
E pili mau na pomaika
i ia oe. Aloha nui.
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xmydreamsfadex
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i waned to post this on another thread that godhead was speaking on but it closed.
anyway, godhead, i imagine you eating alphebet soup, spewing the letters on the walls and writing down sentences you make from the letters on all of your posts.
26? i don’t think so…
anyway, godhead, i imagine you eating alphebet soup, spewing the letters on the walls and writing down sentences you make from the letters on all of your posts.
26? i don’t think so…
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cestusdei
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IQ of 142 here. They test us before seminary. I remember being 16. I was so much smarter then lol.
I would ask godhead the question, but given what I have seen so far I am not that interested. If he was truly wise he would be more interested in asking questions then in pretending to know the all answers.
I would ask godhead the question, but given what I have seen so far I am not that interested. If he was truly wise he would be more interested in asking questions then in pretending to know the all answers.
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xmydreamsfadex
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i always heard that the truely wise man has more questions than answers but i’m not a 16 year old philosopher so…
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Keikiolu
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You TOO…!!?
How true! You tend to say more of value when you ask questions, than you ask for when you make statements.
Er,… yeah,… or,… something like that… :ehh:
Mahalo ke Akua…!
E pili mau na pomaika
i ia oe. Aloha nui.
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Mirdath
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Since it looks like we’re stuck waiting for Godot here, my IQ is soooooo high they had to measure it on a stock exchange scale (and the Dow still hasn’t passed ME)!
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Keikiolu
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Well,… well,… MINE’S so high that,… that,… it’s got an EXPONENT in it…!!
Mahalo ke Akua…!
E pili mau na pomaika
i ia oe. Aloha nui.
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itsjustdave1988
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I asked my even younger cousin. He says you are not wise at all and I should stick with his counsel instead, as he is even younger than 16, with an even higher IQ.
My younger cousin gave the the following aphorism to ponder: “Not everything clever is true.” However, I’m stuck. I don’t know if his aphorism is to be taken as being true.
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Mirdath
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It’s… very cleverMy younger cousin gave the the following aphorism to ponder: “Not everything clever is true.” However, I’m stuck. I don’t know if his aphorism is to be taken as being true.
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Keikiolu
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Whatever JustDave says is false, and he’s the first to say that that’s correct!I asked my even younger cousin. He says you are not wise at all and I should stick with his counsel instead, as he is even younger than 16, with an even higher IQ.
My younger cousin gave the the following aphorism to ponder: “Not everything clever is true.” However, I’m stuck. I don’t know if his aphorism is to be taken as being true.
But wait,… If he say’s he’s always false, then he’s never ever true, which means he’s always…? HELP…!!
(( Spock,… take care of those Gyndroids…! ))
Mahalo ke Akua…!
E pili mau na pomaika
i ia oe. Aloha nui.
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Larry1700
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You know, maybe “Godhead” is right…in a way.
Though I don’t appreciate someone using “Godhead” as their username, in this particular case perhaps it should be a reminder that we should all seek wisdom through the trueGodhead.
Though I don’t appreciate someone using “Godhead” as their username, in this particular case perhaps it should be a reminder that we should all seek wisdom through the trueGodhead.
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