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Coping with the Realization that You're Smarter than Your Parents (pg. 2)
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I'm not sure I've ever met anyone smarter than me. Or, for that matter, dumber. We did have different skills, interests, and beliefs though. |
Pretty much this. I know way more about programming and computers in general than my dad, and I'd be a fool to use him as advice on a number of things, but he has numerous other fields of knowledge. I can specifically remember surpassing my dads computer knowledge too.
People have different skill sets, doesn't mean you are any more or less smart over all in a lot of cases. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I'm not sure I've ever met anyone smarter than me. Or, for that matter, dumber. We did have different skills, interests, and beliefs though. |
you’re a homo. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
you’re a homo. |
Why do you reckon there's a rainbow in my avatar?! :p |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Why do you reckon there's a rainbow in my avatar?! :p |
You're an enabler! |
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| Marcus Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
You must hate a ton of people. |
I don't hate anyone. I despise actions. One of which is talking to a pretentious liberal. Debating liberals (What I really mean are people who identify as modern day or sometimes "Post modern" "Progressives" rather than American Liberalism as a whole.) is nearly as impossible and pointless as speaking to a wall. They will shout slogans and buzzwords and claim them as arguments without stating any factual evidence. If their argument is dissected and refuted, they will simply use ad hominem attacks to squelch any further debate.
And before you reply by calling me a conservative, I most certainly am not. |
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| Blake |
Woah. A lot more butthurt than anticipated. :nervous:
Just to show that I meant no pretense; my grandmother only has an 8th grade education, and the last time I visited her in the hospital, I spent my stay trying to explain to her some of the research taking place at the Large Hadron Collider (poor granny :( )
While I was able to get her to get the gist of things, I will neeeever be able to speak about such things with her in the kind of detail that I could with my dad, who's career path required him to study the sciences and higher order mathematics.
Compared with some of my older relatives, I am literally able to consider more things, in more complex ways than they, at any given moment. There's nothing pretentious about it. I imagine it's quite common, from generation to generation, actually. Perhaps "smarter" was a poor word choice, on my part :confused: |
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| Blake |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I'm not sure I've ever met anyone smarter than me. Or, for that matter, dumber. We did have different skills, interests, and beliefs though. |
Gonna have to call you out on this one. You've meet plenty of people you're smarter than; babies.
Funny, everyone here would probably say that they're smarter than a toddler. Their ability to think, at all, is vaaaaastly limited. What I had in mind, in raising this topic, was how disheartening it is that as I grow older, my patches and older relatives seem more and more like children :sadgreen: . As I continue to incorporate new ideas and concepts into my mind, they become more resistant to incorporating anything new, which limits them by default. It eventually comes to the point where they're making statements which you know to have no validity, but you don't even bother to correct them because their understanding of things is set. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake
Gonna have to call you out on this one. You've meet plenty of people you're smarter than; babies. |
Actually, babies are quite impressive if you've ever seen one for an extended period of time (say, six months or more).
I wasn't really much different from what I was six months ago. Read a few more books, did a few more things, and put on a lot of weight incidentally. But I can hardly do anything now that is radically different from what I could do then.
Babies, however, manage to master quite a lot in a few months time. Sure, they can't talk to you about astrophysics, but they'll go from being a somewhat static crying poop machine to a fully mobile crying poop machine quite quickly, and once they figure out how to move their legs and walk, it's just a matter of time until they start running. Then they start making sense of the sounds we make with our mouths and acquire this system in just a few years - a feat most adults aren't able to repeat.
So, no, I don't consider myself "smarter" than babies. We just have somewhat different priorities, as I've had plenty of time to get used to my body by now. Besides, I'm an enabler. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| I'm even smarter than me. |
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| Blake |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Actually, babies are quite impressive if you've ever seen one for an extended period of time (say, six months or more).
I wasn't really much different from what I was six months ago. Read a few more books, did a few more things, and put on a lot of weight incidentally. But I can hardly do anything now that is radically different from what I could do then.
Babies, however, manage to master quite a lot in a few months time. Sure, they can't talk to you about astrophysics, but they'll go from being a somewhat static crying poop machine to a fully mobile crying poop machine quite quickly, and once they figure out how to move their legs and walk, it's just a matter of time until they start running. Then they start making sense of the sounds we make with our mouths and acquire this system in just a few years - a feat most adults aren't able to repeat.
So, no, I don't consider myself "smarter" than babies. We just have somewhat different priorities, as I've had plenty of time to get used to my body by now. Besides, I'm an enabler. |
I'm just gonna let this one slide... :rolleyes: |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake
Perhaps "smarter" was a poor word choice, on my part :confused: |
Yup. Differing opinions and viewpoints doesn't necessarily make you smarter than them. You may feel that you're right and they don't "get it", but bear in mind that they also feel the same way toward you. |
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