Sheldon (from Big Bang Theory) is a good example of someone with high intelligence who has trouble relating and interact
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meowBi — 11 years ago(October 05, 2014 07:42 AM)
Sheldon Cooper is typical person with ashperger syndrome, and his high IQ is just one of the side effects together with lack of empathy, social skills and some other stuff. That's why you can't take him as a good example.
Also, only high IQ is not a guarantee of success. Your social skills, education and mental strength are also important. In case of Joe Bauers, he has education too, which is what actually makes him so successful.
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ezzy666 — 11 years ago(June 22, 2014 06:42 PM)
I have never taken an IQ test and don't have a clue of what my score. I stopped being surprised by the dumb things people do a long time ago. I sometimes feel like I'm stuck in idiocracy. I also have a group of friends who are very smart and they help keep me balanced.
I think the saddest thing is when children say "Wow, you are so smart" or "You are the smartest person I know" and they are being truthful.
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DeepConvection — 11 years ago(July 09, 2014 06:03 AM)
While I think IQ is quite a flawed way to measure intelligence, the answer is a resounding YES. I almost cried when I saw this movie because that was the first time I knew someone else actually saw the world the way that I do.
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Darkeoonz — 11 years ago(October 07, 2014 11:45 PM)
I have a brother who has an IQ of 148 and who is a member of Mensa. My Iq is 132. I got it measured in the army. I feel like my brother is way smarter than the 16 point difference between us. I am very social and I have no problem walking up and talking to just about anyone and I like to drink and party, while my brother has never had a drop of alcohol, and fears meeting new people.
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avortac — 11 years ago(August 06, 2014 11:14 AM)
I don't know about the IQ of 150, but for me, this world feels a lot like this movie's world felt to the protagonist of this movie, ever since I was a teenager.
It's like I am on an alien planet, and I experience culture shock every day. Some days are more tolerable than others, but I can't stop being astonished about the things these half-animals consider 'normal' or 'good', or how they consider actually good or healthy things 'bad' or 'boring' or 'things one should not mention or think about'.
No one seems to like to think about things too deeply, and to me, that's the normal, everyday thing to do. Everything that I encounter, makes me think and wonder about the roots of it, how it came to be, why, and how.
I respect life - these entities SAY they respect life, while slicing a bloody, poisonous, fried muscle of some innocent animal and then putting the pieces inside their own body.
I think not only IQ points or even just 'intelligence' (try to define that word, btw..) matters, but also WISDOM.
Wisdom is a very important thing, essential to sentient life, in my opinion - and here, it's completely ignored and mostly missing. Even when there's intelligence, there's no wisdom.
Even here, people just talk about intelligence (just like in the movie), but I also saw a lot of 'dumbness' and not just 'stupidity' in the movie.
Dumbness is the lack of wisdom, whereas stupidity is the lack of intelligence.
There was even a movie about stupidity, and what it is, and how to define it, and pretty much no one got it right; it's nothing substancial in itself, any more than a shadow is. It's just a word for LACK of something, or an abnormally low amount of something - intelligence.
So, it's very easy to define, as I have already done.
People on this planet don't even ponder or know about the very basic things, like 'day', 'night', 'morning', 'evening', and such things.
Everyone reading this probably feels that they know exactly what those words mean. But let me ask some questions.
(even Wikipedia doesn't have a clear and consistent answer)
When does 'day' begin, and end?
When does 'morning' begin and end?
When does 'afternoon' begin and end?
When does 'evening' begin and end?
When does 'night' begin and end?
I tried to find answers to these questions, and I got different answers from different sources, until I started to just apply logic.
Twelve noon (12:00) is midday. I don't think anyone would dispute that.
Midnight occurs at the middle of the night (00:00). Here again, I think we all are on the same page.
Now, the clock seems to be symmetrical, and for these two to be the mid-points, it means that the day and the night must be symmetrical as well.
That means that if noon is twelve, there has to be just as many hours on the left side of an analog clock (though I know it's supposedly not really called 'analog', but that's an easy way to remember and most people realize exactly what I mean, probably) as there are on the right side, for twelve to be the MIDDLE point of a day.
If there's less than six hours on both sides, then night is longer than day. Why would that be? And if that's true, can 00:00 really be the middle point of the night? Also, if that's true, then when would 'morning' begin, or what would decide that, and how, and why?
So, it's easier and simpler to come back to the realization; day lasts 12 hours, night lasts 12 hours, and it's perfectly symmetrical and makes sense.
This is probably the only true thing we can say about this matter, because the other definitions are not so easy.
Now, when does 'morning' begin?
We could say that it begins at 06:00 am, and ends, for example, at 09:00 am. But then, people would still say "ten in the morning" or "five in the morning", so that's no good.
Maybe morning could be the first half of the day? From 06:00 am to 12:00 midday? No, people would still say "four thirty in the morning".
I don't have a perfect answer to this, but my point is, that neither does anyone else seem to have - it's like most people use these terms without knowing what they even mean!
I'd be satisfied by 'morning' being 03:00 am -> 09:00 am, and everything after 09:00 am being 'day' until 15:00 pm, when 'evening' could begin. 'Afternoon' could be from noon to 18:00 pm, but even that seems a bit arbitrary.
And as we can see, these terms overlap; it can be simultaneously 'morning' and 'night', because 'morning' is the last part of the night and the first part of the day according to this definition.
But there doesn't seem to be an 'official definition' to this on this planet, like one would expect (or at least I did), so it's all rather confusing.
I could go on, but I think I have made my point about this. Just how confident do you, dear reader, feel now, about knowing what the terms 'morning', 'day', 'evening' and 'night' mean?
I think almost any explanation about these things can always be countered by a counter-explanation, that's just as valid, or even more valid. If we say that 'evening', for exa -
paul_tachian — 11 years ago(August 31, 2014 05:21 PM)
You devote deep thought to such trivial matters? REALLY? lol
When does 'day' begin, and end?
Begins at sunrise. Ends at sunset. This is variable depends on time of year.
When does 'morning' begin and end?
Begins 00:00 or 12am, ends at 12pm.
When does 'afternoon' begin and end?
Begins 12pm, ends when the sun has set and is not visible on the horizon.
When does 'evening' begin and end?
Begins after sunset and IMO ends after twilight. Again, this depends on season, so in summer it may start at 8pm, in winter 5pm.
When does 'night' begin and end?
After twilight. That is, wherever YOU are positioned on the Earth, if there is no visible light reaching your eyes from the sun, you can assume it's night time.
I believe the reason there's no universally accepted definitions of day/night phases is because of the variability at Northern and Southernmost regions. For example, I know daylight is present for something like 18 hours or more in countries like Sweden at certain times of the year.
You mention people eating the flesh of animals. You eat fruit and vegetables?
Okay, think about this.
You wrote:
I respect life
Plants and trees are living things too. In those cases, we're mostly eating the
testicles and sperm
(seed) of living beings! Okay, as far as we know they're not sentient beings, but living just the same.
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Shadowrun79 — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 02:33 AM)
My IQ is way above you heathenish reprobates! Your obtuse and vapid minds can never measure up to the gargantuan size of my IQ! You sanctimonious piles of excrement can never measure up to my superior intellect! BEHOLD MY POWERFUL IQ SCORE!
1,678,534.03 Pickles is my IQ score, now bow before your new god!!!!
"Hear me now! This place is cursed, damned, and yes your master is the devil!" -
rokhaund — 11 years ago(August 10, 2014 05:47 PM)
I don't think a person with a high IQ would see the world as an idiocracy. Most of the world's problems aren't caused by stupidity, but our selfish and greedy objectives. A stupid person can be a saint and a very smart person the opposite. It's our goals in life that make the world what it is. Not who we are.
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oscar_ray2_jimenez — 10 years ago(April 24, 2015 12:48 AM)
Thank you sir/lady/human being for making the most reasonable, reasoned and useful remark in this whole thread without ever referencing your own hypotethically high IQ.
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mcharis-1 — 11 years ago(November 28, 2014 08:16 PM)
yes, this is exactly how I see people todaythis movie will help me why I feel sometimes isolated and lonely. And I also decided it is time for me to have kids.
my brain hurts when I hear music today, sometimes when I see movies, and when I see movies from the 90s or 80s or even shows I see much higher intelligence than today.
most people don't like old movies or old super hero movies because of the bad effects compared to today, but the story lines and acting is out of this world.
And this is also why I don't like porn..I truly hope I will find this rare man who is not into porn but erotic movies. We need to populate!