The average person is dumbfoundingly stupid

[Sugarcoat]

6 minutes ago, Meeksauce said:

I don't disagree

The sauce and the sugar finally came to agreement 😎😎

[Schizophonia]

sweet and sour sauce

[LastThursday]

2 hours ago, Meeksauce said:

I was using intelligence in a holistic sense

You are, and I'm saying that your idea is too simplistic. You have intelligencies not intelligence, and everyone has a different mix.  Forget IQ, it's wrong.

[integral]

Everyone is intelligent and there are no intelligent people

Both happen simultaneously

Edited Monday at 10:21 PM by integral

[Eskilon]

Everybody is stupid compared to the body's intelligence. Way more authentic than anybody here 

Edited Monday at 11:03 PM by Eskilon

[Breakingthewall]

3 hours ago, Meeksauce said:

The people splitting atoms and launching rocket ships are at the very high end of the intelligence distribution. They don't speak for the species as a whole. I actually have very smart people around me, it's most of the world that's dumb.

Well, that's true. Very dumb. But some really love their wifes, their kids, their work , then they are smart in some senses , some people is emotionally smart, connected, earthed. And others who are very smart are very disconnected, so they don't use their intelligence properly. Human mind is very complex 

[caspex]

I used to think myself a diamond rare
unique inside a sea of coal banal
submerged below; "I breathe no common air!
await I do to rise and show them all"

Await I did yet came no call esteemed
I wasted youth: "I'm not a normal schmuck"
"The game is rigged!" I cried I cursed I screamed
I trapped myself "I must possess no luck"

"Be perfect now, or else do not begin"
I stayed afraid of change within my realm
It came to me a bit too late within
the truth the guts it takes to be a gem

Expel the dirt the earthly stain in coal
Then suffer deep as hero pure 

 

[Basman]

Speaking of intelligence, one issue I see lot is a general lack of comprehension ability, especially online. So often people will go "what's wrong with Y" when you wrote X unless you meticulously handhold people through your thoughts, leaving nothing between the lines. And even then people will misread you because they get emotional or are biased. 

[caspex]

5 hours ago, Basman said:

Speaking of intelligence, one issue I see lot is a general lack of comprehension ability, especially online. So often people will go "what's wrong with Y" when you wrote X unless you meticulously handhold people through your thoughts, leaving nothing between the lines. And even then people will misread you because they get emotional or are biased. 

what's wrong emotions?

[Meeksauce]

5 hours ago, Basman said:

Speaking of intelligence, one issue I see lot is a general lack of comprehension ability, especially online. So often people will go "what's wrong with Y" when you wrote X unless you meticulously handhold people through your thoughts, leaving nothing between the lines. And even then people will misread you because they get emotional or are biased. 

People on this forum just try to debunk everything without logic