are you smart?

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juro wrote:
cousinbasil wrote: Have to agree with mental v here. If the person is so smart, why is he keeping his money in the bank instead of investing it?.
It's called being general. I was trying to make a simple point. The bank could be any financial asset.
cousinbasil wrote: Besides, there are people who come by their wealth honestly, and many who come by it by cheating, lying, and stealing. The balance sheet is a number, a bottom line; it tells you nothing.
Sure it does. The bottom line is what matters most. If you have good results, isn't that proof of
a mind at work? It may be relative but compare it to a drunk good-for-nothing homeless bum.
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I consider myself open minded to new ideas and well informed in certain areas, but I'm hesitant to call myself "smart." I feel how intelligent I am isn't something I can - or at least should - decide on my own.
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Hello, Lakitty,

Welcome to genius forums.
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Yes. Other people would apply that adjective to me more often then not so I consider myself "smart". Words only have meaning when they can convey meaning to something else.
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Hope I am. But not sure
Every day ot goes another way round.
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I just met another genius.
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Iqover9000 wrote:Hope I am. But not sure
Every day ot goes another way round.
Where are you, what poles are there and which direction are you going in?
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people on this forum are so condescending and self-righteous. get your heads out of your asses.

it was a simple question. if you don't want to answer it, then don't. smart is defined by society, so adhere to it. if you wish to redefine it, then it is no longer the same word for it bears a new meaning.

clearly this forum does not guide its members to a greater understanding of reality, but instead allows them to stroke their egos whenever they feel like it.
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i am smart.
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alice144 wrote:Do you think that you are smart?

Yes or no is fine. A paragraph is also fine.
No.
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I'm smarter than you haha
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You're only as smart as those you come up against.


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jufa wrote:You're only as smart as those you come up against.
How so?
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Tomas wrote:
jufa wrote:You're only as smart as those you come up against.
How so?
To be smarter than another you must bring something that is not. What one is aware of does not make them smarter.


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Derp
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I don't know.
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Yes and No. It depends on the situation.
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Comparatively Yes.
Comparatively No.
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liquid rainbow from D3?
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mental vagrant wrote:liquid rainbow from D3?
Nope. My RPG playing days are over :).
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I think, therefore I am.... smart.

Smartness is relative.

I am smart relatively to all that have lived, and died. I am even smart when sitting chatting to Einstein. I am smart enough to tell Newton where he went wrong. I am smart enough to help Hawking solve the mysteries of the Universe. I am smart enough to collaborate with CERN, and NASA. I am smart enough to add new insights into the brain function for a brain specialist.

Smart in an underachieving Genius.

Genius is an underachieving Pincho Paxton.
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To answer OP's question yes I think I am smart. However I don't mean just strict IQ. I have met many people with higher IQ's than mine that did not impress me much. Many of them had math skills and even understood some of the functional knowledge presented in philosophy texts. But most of them were victims of groupthinking, did not have a natural drive to understand their surroundings, and had not developed exceptional reasoning skills.

My definition of intelligence requires some kind of edge or drive to understand things personally in a way that is not accountable to others (but the intelligent path leads such a person to listen to opposing arguments and still learn from others).
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I nor anyone can judge if I am smart or not.
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alice144 wrote:Do you think that you are smart?

Yes or no is fine. A paragraph is also fine.
I don't think I am. I know I am. Ego aside.

The sad truth is that this thread is tainted with inflated egos.
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Am I samart ? Is the Universe ?
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