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Wisdom would be your battery or fuel tank?

I would say yes except I am unsure about the last one. To me, wise is kind of above the other two. An intelligent person arrives at answers after some work but the wise guy already knows it or can figure it out through other means rather than "working things out". But then, someone can just be wise by simply knowing a lot of things ... is that intelligence or smartness? I don't know! If so, is google smart or intelligent? It does usually come up with good answers to many questions

Yup ... I consider chess more an aquired skill but it really comes down to how one plays. As you said, in reality the line gets blurred as some people may utilize tremendous creativity and ingenuity in playing (to me a big sign of intelligence) while others may rely on experience, learned scenarios, and strategies.

I feel I need to add that experts have been debating the definition of "intelligence" for a long time ... especially with the advent of artificial intelligence, the question of what actually is intelligence has been revisited many many times, with the "Turing Test" being the most widely accepted measure by which to identify intelligence ... and of course the test uses a human to make the comparison But for example for a long time people who could play chess very well were thought to be very intelligent .... but then computers showed up and now they can beat the best of the best pretty much but they are faaar from intelligent... or are they

Funny stuff Fadiushka Here's my take: Smartness: Ability to solve problems you have seen before rapidly. Intelligence: Ability to formulate and solve problems you have not seen before. Wisdom: Not having to solve any problems yet being able to arrive at a correct conclusion. Note that under my definition, our computers are very smart for certain tasks but are neither intelligent nor wise.

He's just quoting Linda Richmond (aka Mike Myers as shown in the picture ) from a sketch he used to do on this US TV show called Saturday Night Live. The whole show was about admiring Barbara Streisand and every once in a while (s)he would get verklempt when thinking about barbara ... and then while she was verklempt, she would give topics to the audience to discuss ... like how the coldwar was neither cold, nor a war.

That's about 40 buffets for 1

Thoth, FYI, your replies and welcome in this thread was most likely the reason for me sticking around!

I was serious around post #89 in this thread which I made as my first post ever on this forum about 3 years ago Since then, I've become a bit more cynical, especially when matters of "God" is concerned.

Well, in the above case, it wasn't really addressed to you just prompted by what you said And anileve, I think I have dragged this thread into the gutter as it is so don't get me started on my theories of what the "apple" in the bible represents and what eve did or did not swallow.

I bet you the white man that wrote the bible thinking God created him in his image now wishes God had been black after seeing some porn movies ... if God had been black, I bet the net wouldn't be filled with enlarge your penis commercials these days.

For me the hardest part was getting out of bed. Once I was up, I would just roll ... but man was it hard to get up some days. And those days got more and more frequent as my class level (and independence) went up

Titanic was a best seller ... it had that God aweful music and even got some oscars ... now imagine an eternity of watching Titanic.

That was a good one I don't know ... God just sounds like the most boring being that has ever existed. If God is in fact "God", then God must have created "existence" so the whole discussion whether God exists or not is meaningless. After all, as Mark Twain has said: “I would rather go to Hell than heaven because all the interesting people are in Hell whereas heaven would be unbearably boring with all that praising of an incompetent deity?”

God created man in his own image. Some men are Gay. Therefore God is sometimes Gay.

Wow, the yin-yang? it must be serious

Who says I don't Nah ... I think I just stick to shooting around the basketball and the occasional pickup games.

Seemingly unrelated at first maybe ... but in the end, it's all in your mind. Working out and just being physically active is not just good for the body ... actually I personally find that I can think better during general extended periods of activity versus extended periods of physical inactivity. At least in my case, I can think more clearly, more efficiently, and my thoughts tend to be a lot more organized. Basically I am a lot more likely to not care when I'm spending my days vegging out in front of the PC or TV or just driving around for no reason.

You can't lose! 1. If you have too much energy, you'll burn it off 2. If you have too little energy, you'll feel energized 3. You will feel much better and therefore have a more positive attitude about things 4. You will have less time to smoke 5. At the end of the day, you'll feel like you did something during the day! 6. The improved blood flow will make certain acitivities later at night more enjoyable. I gurantee you in a week your whole attitude will change.

Eve, do you work out?

It has everything to do with lazyness! You leave everything to the last minute up to the point where sheer panic and fear of the "negative outcome" overcomes your lazyness. I am the same way.

Laziness and procrastination, like any other "drug" causes addiction. After a while, it just becomes part of you. Some people who become alcoholics for example are able to defeat it and go back to normal. It stays with them for a long time and maybe forever but some do over come it ... then there are others that simply can't. Just like any addiction, in addition to dealing with the addiction itself, one has to look at the root cause(s). For me, it was just that I really didn't care about anything and I still don't for the most part! But what has happened to me is I have become sick and tired of doing nothing and being the flaky guy ... I didn't used to be like this so now I am determined to get back to what I was.

I'd say you have stopped caring about things. You have to find a reason to care. You have to start to find some sort of joy in what you do on a daily basis. Otherwise, this is slowly going to lead to you essentially dissosiating yourself from reality and going into the "don't care" mode of life. Sure you'll still get by but is it really how you want to live? I think we all go through those kinds of stages at some point or another and in various forms. The danger is not to get too used to it and get out of it quickly. I have been suffering from a similar nonchalant zombie like state of existence for the past few years but in the last couple of months, I have been making several changes to help me get back to a more "driven" state. For one thing, I again have started to find joy in what I do. Also a BIG part of all of this is simple procrastination. It is just deeply embedded in the human psyche to procrastinate Once you are aware of it, and once you really get sick and tired of it and yourself, two things can happen: 1. You will spiral down lower into the missery or 2. You'll snap out of it and try to break the addiction (yes, it is an addiction). So which will it be for you?

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Hey, that's not so bad! Hot girls, free coffee, wireless internet, no politics. What else do you want in a work place?