Ask questions about someone who you actually care to know about: me

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  1. Chives Newest Member

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  2. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    If that statement can even be taken as an objective truth (which I doubt), then I'd guess that it's because the Third Way is the most pansy-tastic ideology you can possibly attach your name to. There's nothing cool about it at all, and most people that label themselves communists do so to affect their image.
    Most? There might be one or two people who come close to my level of intelligence, but the overwhelming majority of you people are intellectually closer to apes than to me. And, well, you can imagine what it's like to spend time arguing with a bunch of apes.
    He's an anti-theist. It's a matter of course. There are other things about the guy that I don't like, but that's the most important and obvious one.
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    Right, I'll try a better question than last time.

    What would you need to achieve in life for you to feel you have fulfilled your potential?
  4. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Nothing. I'd be okay with dying right now. I didn't plan on it, but chances are that I'll be stuck here for a while yet, so I'm primarily looking for entertainment.
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    So how is like on a forums where the average intelligence is closer to apes then yourself.
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    If he feels that way about here, I feel sorry for him if he ever has to walk down an average street.
  7. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    He Propley feels nothing for them because he never has to have a conversation with said people, thus he can maintain the illusion that said people are equally or above intelligence level of himself. Though I would conclude that he would never do this and would maintain the idea that every single individual in the street into proving other wise is a complete and total idiot, or worse a communist.
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    I don't know man, I hardly doubt a lot of people I'd meet on the street are more intelligent than I am, especially when I visit larger cities.
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    I'm talking average steet. Not Wall Street.
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    Hardly matters. On campus, I'll find plenty of people who are either just as intelligent or more intelligent than I am, but on the average street, it's going to be pretty hard to find anyone who has more intelligence than just about any given university student. They might act like immature idiots and do the stupidest shit, but they're there for a reason.
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    Yes, that's what I said originally, we seem to have got slightly mixed up.
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    Ah, it seems so. Oh well, I'll just blame the time and be on my way, then.
  13. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    The vast majority of people that have ever lived, or are alive today, are a lot dumber than me. There are also people that are smarter than me, but they're extremely few and far between. It's not conjecture or ego, it's simply objective truth. I do not pretend to be all-knowing or capable, but there are not many people who can consider themselves my intellectual equals, and even fewer who can consider themselves superior.

    That said, I've met my betters and have the utmost respect for them. I don't expect a similar attitude from the lowly primates that populate most of the planet, but I do expect that they'll look to me or my brethren when they need questions answered or problems solved. Well, I'm a person too, though, and I don't have any desire to sacrifice for the sake of those creatures. Perfect intelligence is inseparable from perfect compassion, but imperfect intelligence is probably the greatest source of evil that exists. As I've said before, though, knowledge of truth does not allow me to escape it, and so I am resigned to being a bad person. That's fine; I'll gladly accept that role. World needs villains just as much as it needs heroes.
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    Would you care to join a Facebook group full of people worse then Ler, and one Norwegian philosopher?

    Come on I heard you love militant atheist communist women.
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    So Kali you believe that intelligence is the single most important thing a human can possess and be judged on? You seem to place yourself above others on the grounds of intelligence, do you not value other skills and traits?
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    I do. It doesn't matter how many rocks you can lift or whether or not you can play a keyboard with your feet; you as a person are nothing more than a mind, and a mind is limited only by its intelligence.
    Well, I certainly recognize the importance of those skills and traits, but they're at best secondary. As far as my personal evaluation of someone goes, intelligence is the key and critical factor.
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    Is there anybody on this forum you consider to be your intellectual equal, if so, who?
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    How are you measuring intelligence here?
  19. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Yes. I won't disclose that other part.
    It's hard to quantify, or even qualify, intelligence. Of course I can't determine the intelligence of anyone here beyond what they present, though what they present can say a whole lot about them. For instance: you want to be seen as impartial and well-educated (as well as not an American citizen). It's extremely easy to tell that it's an act, though, because you routinely use unnatural language and attempt to use vocabulary beyond your own understanding.

    Now, in some cases, especially where there's a language barrier, speech can't tell you the true intellect of a person. However, for native speakers such as yourself, it's easy to determine, from vocabulary, syntax, semantic understanding, spelling, and general grammar, whether or not someone is as intelligent as they make themselves out to be.

    Well, the point I'm making here is that intelligence and the mind are uniquely tethered to language. While knowing more language doesn't necessarily make you more intelligent, it does give you a greater capacity to express your thoughts. In this way, it's easy to tell when someone's capacity for intelligence is greater than the volume of their intelligence. It's more difficult when it's the other way around, but it is only very rarely that I deal with someone like that.
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    Understandable.

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