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On May 04 2005 15:00 ihatett wrote:
I found a way to pick the smartest posters:
liberals, line up in one corner
conservatives, line up in another
fascists/communists, line up in yet another
those who don't care, line up in the last corner
Those who aren't at a corner win. Oh, and I get a free pass for coming up with it.
hahaha : ), too bad i was in the corners of conservatives beating the shit ouf of them 
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On May 04 2005 15:00 ihatett wrote:
fascists/communists, line up in yet another
ihatett's patented receipe for a no-holds barred brawl
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Whether they are smart or not, people who need 20 seconds to rewrite to you on battle net or icq or irc if they are obvisiously not away are annoying me.
They seem to be quite the opposite of smart.
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On May 04 2005 14:19 MPXMX wrote:baal, you're awesome without a doubt 
<3 i need petting too
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Intellect is a measure of your ability to solve problems, do things. Accomplishment is the measure of how well you put that ability to use. Asking how intelligent people are is like asking a writer how many reams of blank paper does he have. Not one of you is really intelligent here, not one of you have contributed anything significant to human knowledge. You can speculate on the most distinguishing attributes of intelligence outside of accomplishment (like ihatett), or testify to your own overwhelming intelligence (you know who you are), but the more you post here, the less chance you'll actually accomplish anything.
I also believe that intelligence is relative. There are cultures in the world (I can't remember specifics...) whose word closest to our "intelligence" actually refers to their social ability or their understanding of human nature. People who would rank high on this measure of intelligence might be men like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, or Hitler. Goes to show that intelligence can't neccessarily be judged on the criteria most commonly used on this forum (omg i can capitalize better than you can//i can post reams of ignorant shit for longer than you can//i can thesaurus whore better than you can).
p.s. my previous posts on this thread were a joke.
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Oh ya dude, baal, stop flattering yourself.
It's disgusting.
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For the mods (tl mods are smart =D) I pick mensrea, cyric, and naz.
For the regular posters, brood and freak.
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dangerous topic to post in so I'll just say
I think some of you are forgetting Manifesto :-)
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On May 04 2005 15:22 camooT wrote:
Intellect is a measure of your ability to solve problems, do things. Accomplishment is the measure of how well you put that ability to use. Asking how intelligent people are is like asking a writer how many reams of blank paper does he have. Not one of you is really intelligent here, not one of you have contributed anything significant to human knowledge. You can speculate on the most distinguishing attributes of intelligence outside of accomplishment (like ihatett), or testify to your own overwhelming intelligence (you know who you are), but the more you post here, the less chance you'll actually accomplish anything.
Rule #1 about judging people's intelligence: if they overgeneralize, it's a strike against them.
Pray tell, what do the forum posters have to do in order to please you?
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Manifesto has a great handle on language and is funny
Outside of game reports, and jokes here and there I have not read that much of him, but he was a good one
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Norway28695 Posts
mensrea when he was around
badteeth nowadays
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Rule #1 about judging people's intelligence: if they overgeneralize, it's a strike against them.
Irony, bitch. Do you speak it?
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I think hasuwar and brood are my choices for this nomination. They both always write intelligent things and I can usually agree with them easily, as they back it up with some sort of proof. Honorable mentions go to Drone, Arbiter[frolix], Manifesto7 and Cyric. Nazgul seems like a smart guy too that doesen't really show it too much but I'm really not sure, he definitely deserves to be mentioned though.
PS. Forgot Chris307, I love this guy.
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On May 04 2005 15:52 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
dangerous topic to post in so I'll just say
I think some of you are forgetting Manifesto :-)
Of course Mani, although I don't see him post often anymore (which is why I haven't mentioned Mens or any of the "retired" posers)
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Tech)PSylo always stood out as very down to earth
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On May 04 2005 14:11 MPXMX wrote:
But I found that those people do take sides on controversial topics and sound convincing on whatever side they are on, when the topic is open to debate that is (and they don't take a side that is clearly wrong when there is one)
Yeah what you said happened to be nitpicking because I didn't really choose words or put a lot of thought into what you quoted. It's there to somehow support my opinion of the posters, and I think it somehow does (maybe not very well)
whatever :-) They probably take the same side. Based on your list I can see myself debating them on the opposite end. Draeger's comment on your post about unison being a prerequisite to intelligence holds true in that if you don't conform to popular opinion you are often chastised if you stand your ground. A clear cut example is moltke. He often expresses his own opinion and when people lack empathy they demote anything he has to say as oppose to challenge it. Not to say that attitude applies to every poster but it is a noticible trait amongst the posters.
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On May 04 2005 16:53 DV8 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2005 14:11 MPXMX wrote:
But I found that those people do take sides on controversial topics and sound convincing on whatever side they are on, when the topic is open to debate that is (and they don't take a side that is clearly wrong when there is one)
Yeah what you said happened to be nitpicking because I didn't really choose words or put a lot of thought into what you quoted. It's there to somehow support my opinion of the posters, and I think it somehow does (maybe not very well)
whatever :-) They probably take the same side. Based on your list I can see myself debating them on the opposite end. Draeger's comment on your post about unison being a prerequisite to intelligence holds true in that if you don't conform to popular opinion you are often chastised if you stand your ground. A clear cut example is moltke. He often expresses his own opinion and when people lack empathy they demote anything he has to say as oppose to challenge it. Not to say that attitude applies to every poster but it is a noticible trait amongst the posters.
Do we have to start this again? I don't believe that Moltke has anything worth to offer in any serious discussion thread. Of course, I often disagree with him, but my main point of contention is his tendency to work his way around arguments with philosophical or otherwise wholly contrived ideas. More importantly, he is guilty of the same thing you accuse us of. Every post of his is laced, however ambiguously, with anti-chinese sentiment. He doesn't apply rationality to his posts, only to his cool attitude, which seems to win so many people over for him.
Whatever, let's not derail this thread into that crap again.
To add to my previous post, is anyone here familiar with Gardener's multiple Intelligences? It's psychological theory, which means it borders on psuedoscience, but it demonstrates fairly well what I meant by saying that intelligence is relative.
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences
(don't trust everything that article says, note the disputed neutrality warning)
I don't neccessarily agree with him. As the article states, the theory is somewhat ad hoc. Gardener tries to redefine intelligence, which itself suggests a problem with this thread as a whole: how do we judge the intelligence of posters? The criteria here seem to center on social popularity, writing skill, and general knowledge. I think that there isn't enough serious discussion here to really test the latter. That's why I think this thread is pointless. Bye.
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Still looking for my name...!
Pretty hard to judge as mentioned above, the guy with the best language and the most rational things to say probably wins. I'm pretty sure there are several people here who is just above average when it comes to intelligence, but since they are social, have a lot of experience and perhaps a good way to verbalize they "feels" to be hell a lot smarter.
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On May 04 2005 14:17 baal wrote:weee, finally i was loosing hope in this forum  , someone who can finally see through long ass posts and fancy words. Freak you sure love petting yourself dont u  , *pet pet pet* *bad kitty!* anywayz Freak, i want to know who you consider the smartest poster on tl.net, and please dont say some random unknown poster just to pet yourself a little more
oh yea, baal, definitely, the guy who was arguing that when there's a prize behind 1 of 100 doors, after you pick one and reveal 98 of them without the prize, you should change your pick to the other door remaining because that door has a 99/100 probability of being correct.
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