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On January 20 2008 13:31 Funchucks wrote:Show nested quote +On January 20 2008 13:26 Mindcrime wrote:On January 20 2008 13:20 Funchucks wrote:On January 20 2008 12:51 Jibba wrote:
[I agree that many forms of Buddhism are better classified as belief systems rather than religions, but they are still an atheist religion. The original point about it was that people mistakenly equate atheism to disbelief in religion, when it is really just disbelief in god(s). "Religion" is a fuzzy term which often equates to "theism". Some claim science is a religion. Some claim Buddhism is not a religion. This is a pointless semantic quibble. Words have to be interpreted in context, and my meaning was unambiguous. Just because "religion" is sometimes used to refer to non-theistic belief systems doesn't mean it's incorrect to use "religion" to denote "theism". (And no, the dictionary definition won't help. People look at the way words are used and then write dictionaries, they don't read dictionaries and then build languages. A dictionary entry is just a summary of some scholar's considered opinion.) If you wanted to talk about theism rather than religion then that is what you should have done. The word exists for a reason. And if you wanted to have a pointless semantic argument based on your faulty understanding of how language works, rather than a meaningful discussion in which people try to understand each others' intended meanings, you should have gone to a random internet forum rather than come to this bastion of enlightened discourse. Oh, wait... Nevermind.
I have a faulty understanding of how language works? That's grand.
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Didn't we have a thread on this douche a while ago? I'm pretty sure the consensus there was the same as here: he's kind of an idiot.
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On January 20 2008 03:32 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
how the fuck did he make the hardest iq test in the world
arent iq tests supposed to be objective.. so a guy with an iq of 120 would score 100 on this hard test? lol
annoying guy.. if iq is the apm in SC he's the heaven[30dom]
lol I bet almost no one got this ,but you're right on.
Heaven aka the former progamer 400+ apm terran who lost a cc to one tank against Elky because he never noticed it was under attack and never bothered to lift his cc.
All that apm/iq and jack shit to show for it.
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He might not be the worlds smartest man, but he is probably the smartest representer of ID.
Fact: If you surround yourself with idiots everything you do seems smart.
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Theory: people who use the term "semantic" or "semantics" are idiots. Confirm?
Also, the 'smartest man' in this thread is just the 'highest scoring man at IQ tests'. I'm not going to give him any credibility beyond simply being great at IQ tests: he's not smart until he proves so in another way.
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Is it just me... or he talk like he wants to take over the world?
he talk about having that few genius high scoring IQ ppl run the system and filtering out the bad genes. WHen ask who would faciliate such thing he answer he could do it and smartly say "it could even be you" which make him not seem so cocky but he is.
The guy is the next HITLER!!
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So he claims he never met someone more intelligent than him and that he has all the qualifications of a genius yet he has no achievements and he works in a bar.
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Which just goes to show you it takes more than intelligence to get somewhere in life... maybe it's that thing called "hard work" my parents used to talk about.
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On January 21 2008 02:34 Prodigy[x] wrote:
Which just goes to show you it takes more than intelligence to get somewhere in life... maybe it's that thing called "hard work" my parents used to talk about.
And hard work comes from ambition.
Without ambition all the intelligence in the world would do nothing. Its like buying a 3k $ comp and then just using it for word and browsing the internet.
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On January 20 2008 21:04 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:Show nested quote +On January 20 2008 03:32 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
how the fuck did he make the hardest iq test in the world
arent iq tests supposed to be objective.. so a guy with an iq of 120 would score 100 on this hard test? lol
annoying guy.. if iq is the apm in SC he's the heaven[30dom] lol I bet almost no one got this ,but you're right on. Heaven aka the former progamer 400+ apm terran who lost a cc to one tank against Elky because he never noticed it was under attack and never bothered to lift his cc. All that apm/iq and jack shit to show for it.
i bet a lot of people got it. Good analogy, but the guy isnt a loser because hes a bouncer either. Hes happy with his life.
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I think some people in this thread are upset that their IQ isn't quite that high 
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man all this philosiphical "talks" makes me falla sleep -_-
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I think this is very interesting. Listening to other people's thoughts on reality makes me wonder about it too. I believe we really are the same; to make this world a better place, we must treat everyone else the way we would want to be treated.
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On January 19 2008 15:56 Tadzio00 wrote:
Its a shame that guy was abused as a child. Its seems clear how that's shaped his ideology especially in regards to authority. All that intellect and his biggest dream for himself and mankind is to create a rigid caste system where the intelligent (meaning, himself) control the fate of the "dunces" even more than they already do, and in fact institute a compulsory breeding program to remove the "dunces" from the genepool. He doesn't want to challenge or displace the authority that made his youth a hell, he wants to expand its scope and claim control over it. He even holds the belief that freedom should not be a right, but an earned privilege. No wonder he's a bouncer.
His ideas on how the world should be run are not new, and in many respects it's how the world is currently run. There is a popular belief among western intelligentsia and policy planners that the average man is an idiot who, once given proper democratic control over his own life, would destroy himself and his society as well.
"...the common interests very largely elude public opinion [...] and can be managed only by a specialized class" --Walter Lippmann, 1921.
This view, I think, is ridiculous and is merely a rationalization of power protecting itself. While it is true that your average man won't be tinkering around with unification theory, its also true that the vast majority of the world's most dangerous problems can be solved without any special technical thought.
What are the current threats to the species?
Were that the US had a functioning democracy, the "dunce" filled masses would've voted to be part of the Kyoto Protocol, which would help to mitigate global warming.
They'd also have voted to dismantle much of the Pentagon system, as well as most of the US' massive nuclear arsenal, which would reduce the threat of global nuclear war significantly, and would make blatant militarism much less common-- while we may've still invaded Iraq, we'd also have left after the Iraqis had elected their new government. The US masses would overwhelmingly believe we should work within the confines of international law, which would further limit US militarism and would probably have prevented the invasion of Iraq altogether. Etc etc.
To whatever extent pollution is a third threat to the species, by and large the most threatening pollution is created through industrial waste. Given the opportunity to vote on environmental regulations, the common man would, without a doubt, severely hamper industry's ability to pollute without consequence. If not banning the pollution outright, they would ask industry to shoulder the responsibility (and cost) for cleanup in the very least, which would have much the same effect as an outright ban.
The average person won't perform a research project to discover that the ozone layer is failing or pursue the causes, that's true, but once told the causes and the potential fallout, they will gladly work to correct the problem, if given the opportunity. Democracy can handle the problem, we just need more of it.
I don't agree with this at all. Its a very limited perspective on democracy and democratic government. Democracy as we have it in the western world is a highly specific cultural aritifact that dependson civic virtues and values which are decidely not universal. It is not a system that translates directly across different cultures.
Also, while its not true that the average person is an idiot, its quite true that the average person has little to no idea about the proper governance or actions of a nation-state conglomerate of millions of people, which again is a cultural artifact that no human being has innate evolved intelligence to deal with, unlike small-scale kin interactions.
100 years ago the "average person" would quite possibly have voted to make Christianity the official religion of the US. That doesnt seem to jibe with your current values. What makes you think that its any better now because some supposedly superior positions of yours might be validated by a mass vote?
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I dont understand how you guys can all post that you have 135+ IQs in threads asking about them, then give this guy shit about having a 190+ IQ, if it doesn't matter than why is it that every single person on TL is in the top 5% of the world based on IQ.
And also for the record, the magazine was the first IQ test he took, he has taken others and scored off the charts on them giving him an unclear IQ.
Why does it matter that he hasn't done much for society. Why is he forced to be the person to change the world just because he is smarter than everyone else?
I dont understand most of you.
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You guys are all smarter than 95% of the world, why aren't you changing shit?
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On January 21 2008 07:45 CrownRoyal wrote:
You guys are all smarter than 95% of the world, why aren't you changing shit?
cause were all busy playing sc and watching vods
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He doesn't have to change the world, but being a bouncer is pretty pathetic line of work when you claim to be as smart as he is. That's basically why everyone is giving him shit. Just being smart doesn't really get you much credibility, you need an education too, so you can do SOMETHING with your talent, not just waste it away.
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