RE: Life isn't about how smart you are
March 5, 2013 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2013 at 1:39 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 5, 2013 at 4:45 am)Justtristo Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 2:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: Life isn't about how smart you are
Among sane people stupidity is not seen as a virtue and rightly so.
strawman. Like every other enlightened internet atheist, you completely missed the subtly of my point and reached as fast as you could for a strawman.
Of course stupidity is not a virtue.
Do you even know what the word humility means?
(March 5, 2013 at 8:15 am)Esquilax Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 2:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: Life isn't about how smart you are
Kind of depends on what your priorities are, I guess. Mine require that I constantly seek to expand my own sphere of experience and knowledge. Life isn't about how smart you are, but I'd certainly place importance in knowledge and becoming smarter in life.
Why do you think being smart is a bad thing, Jstrodel?
It is not a bad thing, but it is very vain and small to center your life around trying to prove that you are smarter than other people. Many people go through their whole lives essentially trying to prove their intelligence to others. This is a very destructive and egotistical way to learn about the world, and it severely disrupts learning about the world.
To understand what the world around teaches us requires patience and humility and listening and putting aside what one wants to find and letting the world speak for itself. People that are proud do not do this, they focus on what they already believe and close their minds to what the world around would reveal to them.
(March 5, 2013 at 9:43 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Oh strodel. Roll yourself up in pastry and set the oven for 280 degrees centigrade.
LIFE IS about how smart you are you dumb fuck!
How smart are you NOT to get your self used as luch for a predator?
How smart are you to pass on your genetic code to the next generation?
How smart are you to navigate the current economic and social climate and still remain sane??
How smart are YOU strodel?
not very by the look of you
You are an immature person.
(March 5, 2013 at 12:25 pm)Psykhronic Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 2:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: Life isn't about how smart you are
Maybe YOUR life isn't. But you don't get to decide that for the rest of us.
Yes I can. I can tell people that they are doing something that is destructive. Pride is destructive. If you are intentionally proud and haughty, you should stop. It will harm others.
(March 5, 2013 at 12:28 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 2:36 am)jstrodel Wrote: Life isn't about how smart you areLife is about.... what?
I can't imagine any word that follows that sentence that would make it correct.... maybe a huge string of words would give us a decent view of life...
but then you have billions of different life forms... each with their own huge string of qualifiers.
My life is not about the same things that your life is.
I think all people have responsibility to love each other, regardless of what they want. If you don't see yourself as having a responsibility to love others, which implies a responsibility to renounce pride as a center of your life, I consider you to be a bad person.
