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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: patterns]
#14404244 - 05/05/11 08:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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patterns said: Beethoven

  
But even he ain't got shit on Janamil
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: twighead]
#14404268 - 05/05/11 08:57 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I wonder how his thesis thing is going.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: mellowparty]
#14404561 - 05/05/11 10:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Muppet was a true genius. I wonder how his book is coming along.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: MisterMuscaria] 1
#14404639 - 05/05/11 10:40 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i'm surprised Richard Feynman hasnt been mentioned yet.
regarding the simultaneous invention of calculus by both Newton and Leibniz, we spoke about this phenomenon in my sociology class this semester. the notion was that when certain information becomes available, it inevitably follows that the information will be used and implemented to create whatever comes next, in this case it happened to be calculus. its sort of like a right place at the right time effect.
the topic of genius is interesting. what really makes one a genius? its hard to classify. imo to be 'genius' one has to know how to think, rather than simply having an impressive mental capacity.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: nglsnv]
#14404669 - 05/05/11 10:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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If I could identify any shroomery geniuses they would be;
RR - mush cult Workman - mush cult Wiccan - general intellect Seuss - general intellect redgreenvines - spiritually lana - beating the system Speeker - mycologically Ferris - savant like intelligence Alan Rockefeller - mushroom hunting isaacein - savant like intelligence mushroomtrip - psychological intellect
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14404686 - 05/05/11 10:54 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: mellowparty]
#14404692 - 05/05/11 10:56 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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She's condescending, but many people who are really smart are. Plasmid was like that too.
You can be extremely intelligent and have the worst social skills very easily.
My boss is a fucking asshole but like a borderline autistic genius.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14404741 - 05/05/11 11:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
i don't consider myself to have very good social skills because i don't like to talk about what most people around me like to talk about, i just get bored and uninterested and zone out. it seems like a big waste of time for me because nothing is ever said or accomplished. although i've noticed when i'm doing something else i can engage in smalltalk more easily, like juggling a soccer ball or something.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: KingEmblem]
#14404743 - 05/05/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: I think the great minds are the ones who dedicate there lives to bringing nature back to its former glory and building a wholly sustainable future for the countless generations to come. There the ones who's actions will have a impact that will resonate throughout our history and bring us true gains both in wisdom and life. Not some scientist figuring out the exact mathematical equations to the physics of this universe or the life cycles of cosmic process's.
This is one of the most laughable, naive and disgustingly smug idealistic posts I have ever read in my life. WOW.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Delicious Apes]
#14404752 - 05/05/11 11:14 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i'm a socially retarded genius, no doubt about it
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: owls]
#14405001 - 05/05/11 12:14 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd say Jimi Hendrix is probably one of the smartest people to ever walk the Earth. If it wasn't guitar then Jimi would have found something else and became the best at it, he was an evolved being in my eyes.
And it doesn't even have to be exclusive to his musical abilities, listen to him talk in between shows... some of the smartest things I've ever heard.
Hell I'd throw Hicks in there as well, I don't think anybody's come as close to him (maybe Hunter S Thompson) at describing what exactly is wrong with this fucking country.. but Hendrix is definitely the smartest person to walk the Earth in my eyes.
I'd also say Martin Luther King Jr was also a genius, in my eyes at least.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Silversoul]
#14405019 - 05/05/11 12:17 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Silversoul said: Add Leibniz to the list. You know that he and Newton simultaneously invented calculus independently of one another?
Considering the totality of their work, Leibniz doesnt hold a candle to Newton.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: DieCommie]
#14405114 - 05/05/11 12:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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Silversoul said: Add Leibniz to the list. You know that he and Newton simultaneously invented calculus independently of one another?
Considering the totality of their work, Leibniz doesnt hold a candle to Newton.
Few people do, so it's not quite a fair comparison. Leibniz was a polymath of the highest order, and if Newton hadn't been his contemporary, chances are more people would've heard of him. Pretty much the only genius I can think of who can compare to Newton would be Da Vinci.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Silversoul]
#14405127 - 05/05/11 12:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Paul Erdős and Srīnivāsa Rāmānujan were definite mathematical geniuses.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Silversoul]
#14405147 - 05/05/11 12:54 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I seriously don't think anyone has mentioned Leonardo Da Vinci... in my opinion one of the smartest people to have ever existed.
He was an absolute master painter, sculptor, architect, anatomist, cartographer, writer, botanist, geologist, engineer, inventor, musician, optician.. who knows what else.
He's the archetype of a true genius.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: pfxtc]
#14405270 - 05/05/11 01:31 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hitler was a genius too
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: mellowparty]
#14405282 - 05/05/11 01:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Spinoza.
He developed what is, to my mind, the greatest philosophical system in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza#Philosophy
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Spinoza viewed God and Nature as two names for the same reality, namely the single substance (meaning "that which stands beneath" rather than "matter") that is the basis of the universe and of which all lesser "entities" are actually modes or modifications, that all things are determined by Nature to exist and cause effects, and that the complex chain of cause and effect is understood only in part.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Carl Sagan]
#14405725 - 05/05/11 03:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: Dawkins? 
Science is great and all, but I really dont think were at a point in history where the quest for the higs boson, the life cycle of stars, or how to best bash on religion is all that relevant to our situation.
Im sorry I cannot let a statement like that go unaddressed.
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1 "but I really dont think were at a point in history where the quest for the higs boson"
Understanding our world on a sub atomic level, and recreating events like the big bang could possibly change the way we view, and study our physical world. Not to mention bringing us closer to answering the questions that have burdened humanity since the beginning of recorded history.
These questions have not burdened humanity, the only people I ever find to be burdened by these questions are the ones who dedicate themselves to that particular field of science.
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2." how to best bash on religion is all that relevant to our situation"
I cant even believe i am about to go into this one, so ill keep it brief: WAR FOR TEN YEARS by religious fundamentalists on both sides.
And how does bashing on them solve anything? You cannot argue against a religious person and your gonna need a act of god on your side to get them to not believe. Richard Dawkins method of attack on religious people is repulsive.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#14405777 - 05/05/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Richard Dawkins' books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker are two of the most lucid and insightful books on evolution and natural selection that I've read. Regardless of his antagonism towards religion, the guy's quite intelligent.
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Re: Extremely smart people, real geniuses [Re: deCypher]
#14405808 - 05/05/11 03:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't really buy the genuis card. Some people excel at some things, while other people excel at others. My grandma makes an unreproducible pound cake that cannot be reverse engineered. Creativity, autodidacts, bricoleurs, POETS! What about Baudelaire or Rainer Rilke? Because they don't hold framed degrees or fuck with electrical currents I presume they will be under-appreciated and doomed to obscurity in the """humanities."""
On a more serious note, a young woman with an amazing body just walked by me and literally took my breath away. It's the first time that has ever happened. I felt a tingle in my toes afterward, which gradually crept up to my crotch. That ass was genius.
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