While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[Kozmos]

I know what lord joakim is talking about though, in real life I am the genius of my friends. On here, I am just average or so, from what I've seen.

Pretty much. In the land of blind, the one eyed man is king. Here...I'm just a dude with one eye.

 

[Terrance888]

Pretty much. In the land of blind, the one eyed man is king. Here...I'm just a dude with one eye.

Copy situation, paste situation.

 

[Dachs]

Pretty much. In the land of blind, the one eyed man is king. Here...I'm just a dude with one eye.

In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the King.

 

[Angst]

I've never had the impression of you being unintelligent, lj.

Well... I'm happy to know that, but I don't think you have seen my posts in OT where I attempted to promote an election system favoring the somewhat well-educated (By simply not letting people without a high school degree vote - perhaps I even favored a higher threshold, I don't recall) or a recent thread where I attempted to explain the rise of depression levels through cultural pressure and Sartrean existentialism. I have my periods. The second of those resulted in a small exchange of PMs between me and another user who ended up really wrecking my intellectual confidence with assorted amounts of rudeness.

I don't believe in any of those posts anymore, though, at least I get smarter from being wrong. Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on myself.

Those things are peaks of idiocity though, and I have my fair share of feeling right too. It's just much more rare than in the real world.

He's a bloody idiot, everyone knows this!

Once I argued that Poland once was a great power with the greatest army in Europe citing Europa Universalis II. And another time, I said Denmark once was an economical empire because I had no idea other countries used the triangular Atlantic trade route. I was 15-16, but still...

EDIT: ... Actually, that's an interesting topic. Do you have any stories of nonsense you used to believe in?

 

[Kozmos]

I used to believe for a month that my best friends girlfriend was a witch and that she was using dark magics to get me back with an ex who is her friend. That was a psychotic/paranoid episode though.

 

[tuxedohamm]

I don't believe in any of those posts anymore, though, at least I get smarter from being wrong. Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on myself.

Those things are peaks of idiocity though, and I have my fair share of feeling right too. It's just much more rare than in the real world.

For what it's worth, I feel that a certain amount of intelligence is needed to accept that one is wrong about a solidly held position and adjust their views based on it.

 

[Terrance888]

I used to believe when I first got here that I was the best thing that happened to NESing since the first Stats system.

Now I am much... er... more wiser mature less idiotic.

 

[carmen510]

I used to believe in those conspiracies about George W. Bush being a pawn for Dick Cheney, 9/11, and somesuch when I was in 4th-5th grade. General ignorance of diplomacy, statecraft, and world affairs until the end of 6th grade.

I was also incredibly ignorant of female anatomy up until I was 11-12. I used to think female nipples could erect to the size of a penis; can't really remember what else, but there was some other stuff.

 

[Masada]

Once I argued that Poland once was a great power with the greatest army in Europe citing Europa Universalis II. And another time, I said Denmark once was an economical empire because I had no idea other countries used the triangular Atlantic trade route. I was 15-16, but still...

This isn't dumb just wrong. There's a rather marked difference. A dumb person wouldn't know what the triangle trade was; a 'wrong' person does and just messes up the details.

 

[Kraznaya]

This isn't dumb just wrong. There's a rather marked difference. A dumb person wouldn't know what the triangle trade was; a 'wrong' person does and just messes up the details.

of course wrong people often do much more harm than dumb people

 

[Masada]

i'll grant that there's nothing worse than a person who is wrong who thinks himself right

 

[Dachs]

I was also incredibly ignorant of female anatomy up until I was 11-12. I used to think female nipples could erect to the size of a penis; can't really remember what else, but there was some other stuff.

this just means you spend too much time on /b/

 

[carmen510]

this just means you spend too much time on /b/

I didn't go onto /b/ until I was 14. I didn't even know what exactly was until I was 13. That being said, I still avoid now, even the "safe" subforums. Somehow, I manage to find even more twisted stuff on my own through random browsing on the internet and keep myself informed of most memes.

 

[Boundless]

I'm usually wrong and I was pretty sure that made me dumb. That or I just lack logic. Which probably makes me dumb too.

 

[Kal'thzar]

I was joking, but it's more due to me feeling so not-smart compared to most of you being very-smart. In not-smart world, I can usually outtalk everyone. But this isn't not-smart world.

Also, not-smart should totally be an approved gradient of intellect.

Look, as long as you can face up to asking stupid questions, and accept the feedback, you're smarter than 85% of people.

I ask stupid questions all the time. Its hard to ask smart questions if you don't know the basics.

 

[Angst]

For what it's worth, I feel that a certain amount of intelligence is needed to accept that one is wrong about a solidly held position and adjust their views based on it.

This isn't dumb just wrong. There's a rather marked difference. A dumb person wouldn't know what the triangle trade was; a 'wrong' person does and just messes up the details.

I think these posts have somewhat the same point, and the second half of tux' point is more throughoutly addressed in my response to Kal'thzar.

I'm happy to know these things. Makes me feel better about roaming these forums. I've been reluctant to reply to the good OT threads lately as I've felt misplaced, but I learn more from posting and discussing with the rest of a thread rather than just reading it.

Look, as long as you can face up to asking stupid questions, and accept the feedback, you're smarter than 85% of people.

I ask stupid questions all the time. Its hard to ask smart questions if you don't know the basics.

My current assumed strategy on bettering my knowledge is just asking people to elaborate so I can understand it. Eventually, gained knowledge will have me able to partake in discussions properly and perhaps teach other people about things. I hope for that.

 

[das]

I was never wrong. Never!

(Except for that one time when I fell for an April 1st article proving that George Bush was Russian in origin.)

(And when I was 10 or so and believed a newspaper article about those dastardly Syrians poisoning the Sea of Galilee. Syyyria!)

 

[Ninja Dude]

In elementary school they tricked us into thinking that they discovered a "new number" that was like in-between like 6 and 7 or something like that. "Oh man we found out the Incas had this weird number called Ump and even though this makes no sense we're gonna tell you that we're gonna start using it now." Yeaaaaaaaahhh.

 

[SKILORD]

You weren't the first to fall for that, we should never have let them sneak some Arab number like zero into our whole mathematical system.

American math, Amurrican numbers, that's what I say.

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I am frequently wrong, and often just deluded. Or I forgot to turn on the sarcasm tags. You can't tell, so it doesn't make any difference.

 

[das]

I just assume everything you say is sarcastic, barring strong indications to the counterwise. So that's about right, really.