Dec 31 2003, 9:14 pm
In response to Flick
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Karasu Kami
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I would have said the same damn thing, but i would have gotten a message form the mod, figures.
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Ohhh, the sarcasim!
Yes, i forgot to mention to everyone when i started posting on these forums. If i don't say i'm being serious, then i'm being sarcastic. Thats probably the main reason everyone hates me! ^^; | |
Chord wrote:
But TRUE buddhist Karma only affects the "next life", or what you will be reincarnated as, and the situations that will arise in those periods of existence. So that's why when an evil badguy is defeated by some hero, but is reincarnated after that hero dies, pretty much anyone can defeat him again! | |
I think it was a joke. =) And cockroaches may be really hard to kill, but they're not hard to injure.
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digitalmouse wrote:
And I still don't know why people think I'm a guru! :p People tend to look at larger more well known members of the community as being gurus, and you have grown to be a rather well known member, therefore people just throw you into the category. | |
My school is just like that, except I don't totally turn down the idea of dating.... Most girls use it as a cover, but turn out really smart. I bet you that a lot of those girls who act like that make high grades and only act stupid for attention. My last girlfriend was really rich and acted ghetto, she was in Latin I though which was strange. One day I got to talking with her and she instantly turned into a more intelligent person, and heck, her GPA was a 3.8 for the first semester, which is rather good in a private school. When I first met her though I instantly turned off any attraction to her since I thought she was actually mentally challenged.
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Yeah, some girls just act that way. I don't know why, I'd rather date an okay-looking smart girl than a dumb, vapid supermodel. =P
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Yeah, but thats a hard thing to do, especially for a guy... You get my drift... Anyway, this is really off topic, oh wait, we're in off topic! What a disturbing coincidence...
And Kusanagi, grades have nothing to do with intelligence. I have a 1.9 GPA, but I am moderately to highly intelligent, just not motivated. Sometimes I actually consider opening the window instead of walking the entire twenty feet to the bathroom... ...but the neighbors have kids, so I always decide to walk... I don't really know if some of the girls who are so vacuuous, are really intelligent, but it is a definite possibility. Hell, I use silence as a mask at school, so why wouldn't stupidity be a good one as well? (Yeah, I don't talk at school, so they put me in a bunch of special programs, which I quickly weasled my way out of (skipped), and then lowered my GPA even more, and now I have to take a fifth year of high school on my own dollar just so I can make up for all the credits I lost because of those special programs... Honestly, I have a college reading level, and they put me in a reading class... (I got out of it, my creative writing teacher actually plead my case, by showing the councilors my portfolio from last year... I got two pieces in the school literary magazine, under anonymous, of course (wouldn't want to look like a literate person, now would I ;P), and got three pieces into the local writers' showcase, but I had to read them in front of a crowd... Not cool at all... I'm amazed the school didn't recognize me for my outstanding writing ability even though external programs managed to.) | |
Sometimes I can't help but go for a vapid supermodel types though, I mean I can say I don't like a girl because she's dumb but 50% of the time I don't mean it. I'v made the mistake in the past with going out with people like that though, and even though I tell myself I'll never do it again, I somehow end up doing it again. I have always been told that its my large library-like knowledge of funny/corny pickup lines that attracts those types.
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Kusanagi wrote:
again, I somehow end up doing it again. I have always been told that its my large library-like knowledge of funny/corny pickup lines that attracts those types. Like this type of corny, Corny pick up line #1: Guy: You know what'd look good in those shorts? Girl: What? Guy: Me! Corny pick up line #2 Guy: Let's do math, subtract the clothes, add the bed, divide the legs, and multiply! | |
Me: Those are nice legs, what time do they open?
Girl: *Insert cute giggle here* (Well this one is 50/50, giggle or slap, whatever.) Me: Hey baby, are you tired? Girl: No, why? Me: Oh, because you have been running through my head all day. Girl: *Insert cute giggle here* | |
This is why I think it's useless to talk about intelligence as a positive, quantifiable ability...
...then lowered my GPA even more, and now I have to take a fifth year of high school on my own dollar just so I can make up for all the credits I lost because of those special programs... In what way is someone who has the ability to avoid paying for a fifth year of high school but continues an unproductive pattern of behavior which predictably results in that conclusion actually "more intelligent" then someone who simply needs five years of high school to learn everything? If something's not worth your time to begin with, then how intelligent is to do things that prolong it? My mother explained school to me in this way: school is a game. If you are intelligent, then the rules may make very little sense but at the same time are very easy to learn and follow. If you follow them, the game ends quicker. Plus, the practice you get at following rules that you don't agree with is useful when you go out and get a job... surprisingly few "intelligent" people seem to understand that the whole reason you get paid for working is that you're putting aside your interests for X hours a day and acting in someone else's. Many "intelligent" people do very poorly on the aptitude tests given by employers, because the aptitude being tested is mainly the ability to suspend your ordinary intuitive processes of thought and accept whatever lines of thinking are laid out before you. Of course, you can go too far in the opposite direction. The best job I ever had (in terms of monetary compensation vs. actual work required) was a simple grunt work data entry job which I lost in explaining to my manager why it was a waste of money to employ a rational human being to do a job that a computer could just as easily do... shortly after my manager and I came up with a proposal for automating our department, we were both let go because we weren't needed any more. :P Which just proves my point about intelligence being unquantifiable. I was intelligent enough to see the waste but stupid enough to report it, my manager was intelligent enough to see the value of my input but too stupid to see the threat to his job, our employer was intelligent enough to see that it stood to save money by our actions but too stupid to see why it would be valuable to keep us on. | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
My mother explained school to me in this way: school is a game. If you are intelligent, then the rules may make very little sense but at the same time are very easy to learn and follow. If you follow them, the game ends quicker. Very true, I've often thought of school that way. You don't have to be extremely smart; if you know how to play the game you'll get decent grades. At least that's how I think about it. =) | |
Crispy wrote:
Very true, I've often thought of school that way. You don't have to be extremely smart; if you know how to play the game you'll get decent grades. At least that's how I think about it. =) Not me, I'd rather have school be based all on tests rather than just 90% bookwork and only 10% tests. Because, mainly I feel that if you only pass a class because you're, "booksmart (as in bad test grades, high homework/class grades)" then you shouldn't be taking that class. In my opinion, there are no, "bad test takers" it's either you know it or you don't. And that's why I strongly refuse to do homework. It does absolutely nothing for you, if you don't know it at school when a teacher's there to help/guide you, then how are you going to learn how to do it at home with no one but yourself!? | |
But it doesn't matter whether the system makes sense. It only matters if you can follow the rules well enough to do well. That's my whole point. =P
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Yeah, from my experience, I have seen that highschool doesn't prepare you for real life with knowledge, and learning, it preps you by grading you on how much you cooperate with [expletive deleted].
I don't deal too well when I'm not getting paid for doing something I dislike. MY mom said that grades were my paycheck in school, so my argument was void, my response: "What are you [F-ing] stupid? You and I both know you are just bullshitting me so you can guilt trip me into getting better grades!" Even in a metaphorical sense, grades are a pathetic paycheck. How would you like it if instead of paying you, your boss gave you an evaluation of your performance? But still, it doesn't make me dumb to be in 5 years of highschool when I can obviously do something about it, just EXTREMELY lazy. Anyway, I get to stay with the girl I'm with for another year! :P | |
Ter13 wrote:
Yeah, from my experience, I have seen that highschool doesn't prepare you for real life with knowledge, and learning, it preps you by grading you on how much you cooperate with [expletive deleted]. Depends on what you do with your time. Two things from High School impacted my life, one of them especially up to today: - Three semesters of typing were the best educational thing I ever did. Has helped me to no end, almost every moment of every day. - My high school had a low wattage radio station, and I did some programming for them (auto-creating the schedule of PSAs and ID checks throughout the day), and got my first management experience there. On the other hand, I chose to drop out of Math even though I was reasonably far ahead in it. I would do great the first few weeks, but I'd stop studying and fall behind until I got the brilliant idea of dropping out. I kick myself regularly for that, as I'm negatively impacted by it almost every day. | |
Deadron wrote:
On the other hand, I chose to drop out of Math even though I was reasonably far ahead in it. I would do great the first few weeks, but I'd stop studying and fall behind until I got the brilliant idea of dropping out. I kick myself regularly for that, as I'm negatively impacted by it almost every day. Thats like me, except I have always been behind on math, and I can't drop out of it! Oh wait, its not really like me at all. I actually was decent in math but I stopped caring for it and focused more on IPC which caused me to drop greatly in my Math courses, and my school doesn't permit you to just drop Math so I'm stuck with it. I don't see why you kick yourself for dropping Math, I have never noticed much use for it besides the basic concepts you learn in Jr. High, the rest is all common sense. | |