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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: badchad]
#11815820 - 01/12/10 03:21 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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badchad said:
Can you just give me an example of a highly intelligent person working in an occupation considered to be the "lowliest"?
Dude didnt' you see Good Will Hunting?
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Conservationist said: Western society is not set up to nurture intelligent children and adults, the way it dotes over athletes and sports figures, especially the outstanding ones. While we have the odd notable personality such as Albert Einstein, we also have many extremely intelligent people working in occupations that are considered among the lowliest, as may be attested by a review of the membership lists of Mensa (the club for the top two percent on intelligence scales). http://www.scribd.com/doc/8778/Why-Intelligent-People-Tend-To-Be-Unhappy
Smart people make the customers look stupid. That's bad for business. Make people feel bad about being smart, put them in shitty jobs, and intimidate them so they don't breed. Oh, our society's failing? MUST NOT BE A CONNECTION, YO.
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-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: memes]
#11815883 - 01/12/10 03:31 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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meams said:
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badchad said:
Can you just give me an example of a highly intelligent person working in an occupation considered to be the "lowliest"?
Dude didnt' you see Good Will Hunting?
Hollywood movies do not count as reality.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Skizm]
#11815887 - 01/12/10 03:32 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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What about Farenheit 9/11?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Poid]
#11815930 - 01/12/10 03:38 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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Poid said: What about Farenheit 9/11? 
Can you compare those two movies though? One was a film parodying real life events and the other was a fictional story about a genius janitor.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Skizm]
#11815941 - 01/12/10 03:39 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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Yes I can compare them because they are both Hollywood movies.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Poid]
#11815953 - 01/12/10 03:41 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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Poid said: Yes I can compare them because they are both Hollywood movies.
That's like comparing March of the Penguins and Natural Born Killers. Sure, both are Hollywood movies and should be taken with a grain of salt, but they are in completely different categories.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Skizm]
#11815970 - 01/12/10 03:42 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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Dude, you said:
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Skizm said: Hollywood movies do not count as reality.
I'm just telling you that that statement is not necessarily true, since some Hollywood movies are documentaries, and obviously do "count as reality".
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Poid]
#11815996 - 01/12/10 03:45 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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Poid said: Dude, you said:
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Skizm said: Hollywood movies do not count as reality.
I'm just telling you that that statement is not necessarily true, since some Hollywood movies are documentaries, and obviously do "count as reality".
That's true, however we are comparing two different categories of movies. One parodied events that actually happened. One is fictional. Now, whether or not Fahrenheit 9/11 is a truthful movie is another story. However, the fact remains that the events parodied in the movie actually happened.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Skizm]
#11816008 - 01/12/10 03:47 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Society hates smart people [Re: Poid]
#11816558 - 01/12/10 05:08 PM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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some peolpe don't like being pushed... some don't like being pulled. some don't like either and some don't know if either...
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