Let’s Talk Intellect!
What criteria do you use to determine how “smart” somebody is? What about how “educated” or “wise” they are (if you don’t know the difference make an educated guess)? How much importance do you place on this? This is the part where I’d ask yourself to estimate your intelligence but of course you’re by far the smartest person you know of so no need ^_^ I hate you cunts
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also I left that question out for a reason. granted, I put it back in as passive-aggressively as possible for a reason too but that's beside the point.
Conversely, I often feel like my adding anything to something someone intelligent has said would be superfluous and presumptuous... this feeling tends to decline once I become comfortable around the person, but it doesn't go away.
As to how I gauge a person's intellect... hm. I feel like being able to converse confidently about a subject I find difficult (e.g. art) tends to suggest intelligence, and being able to converse confidently about multiple difficult subjects suggests a greater intelligence. Being able to switch seamlessly between confident discussion of multiple difficult subjects and discussions of pop culture and Internet phenomena suggests an even greater intelligence. I always think that the ability to crack jokes about multiple, sometimes difficult subjects is a particular give-away regarding intelligence, since it suggests a high level of confidence and understanding of those matters.
That overlaps a lot with education, of course... I suppose I'd say someone sounds less educated if while they're attempting to carry out intelligent discussions they frequently make obvious goofs.
Wisdom is trickier... if someone is able to say things that I could never have thought of myself, but which on hearing them are instantly enlightening, that to me suggests wisdom.
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I get called smart by most of the people I meet, and I feel like being smart isn't really an improvement on my state of being, so I value most whether X can/will teach me something new rather than whether X is strictly smarter/as smart as/less smart than e.
Whether that suggests that I am a realist or simply not very perceptive is hard to say. It's very rare that someone strikes me as particularly intelligent or particularly stupid.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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(although this is ↳Talk and I'm pretty sure posts consisting of nothing but an emoticon is bad form so I will say) kindly refrain from derailing the conversation I will NOT tolerate any such behavior Vashtar.
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I believe we can, even if it wasn't the original point of dispute.
This doesn't necessarily contradict what you said but you come off as one of the most intelligent people I know, online or off.
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To me, "smartness" is mainly an innate thing. If someone is particularly smart, they can often understand things like complicated math problems with much less effort than your average person. My experience in school was that some people could just easily pick up on stuff and not have to put much effort into their classes to do well. I would consider those people smart.
I feel like "wisdom" and "education" are more related to experiential/practical knowledge and textbook knowledge respectively. I tend to consider somebody wise if they have life experience and/or a great deal of maturity and tact. It seems to me like people can educate themselves both in school and out of school (e.g., Heapers here reading about math, science, philosophy, history, and politics for fun), so it is not necessarily all that easy to determine how educated somebody is.
Personally, I really dislike talking about people in terms of their intelligence or smarts.
First off, I think it can encourage elitism and ranking people based off of something that is sort of arbitrary. People are not worth more as people just because they happen to have more IQ points than the average person. Second, complimenting someone by saying they are smart or criticizing someone by saying they are dumb does not make much sense to me since it is not like the person in question is responsible for any innate smarts they may have.