Originally Posted by MarineHawk I just got this email comparing my booty to Gibraltar, and it pissed me off. Here's the email: _________________ THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT. MarineHawk's booty is large - like Gibraltar. I hope this gets passed on. Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does not like giant booties.

Originally Posted by MarineHawk And here's my response: ______________ My booty is NOT like Gibraltar. I hope you forward this message from me to everyone who received the previous email. There is already too much intolerance and selfishness in the world to promote this kind of bigotry and ignorance.

Originally Posted by PARAGON Don't let selfishness be a substitute for ignorance. In contrast, it's usually the opposite. Ignorance is usually a fertile breeding ground for selfless devotion to ideals that are full of bigotry and intolerance. One should truly fear the slightly intelligent whose selfishness drives them to promote their convenience at the expense of others. They are usually the start of the cancer that infects the ignorant.

Originally Posted by NJ H2 Very good Sir

Originally Posted by PARAGON Don't let selfishness be a substitute for ignorance. In contrast, it's usually the opposite. Ignorance is usually a fertile breeding ground for selfless devotion to ideals that are full of bigotry and intolerance. One should truly fear the slightly intelligent whose selfishness drives them to promote their convenience at the expense of others. They are usually the start of the cancer that infects the ignorant.

Originally Posted by NJ H2 I hope to get up there soon. I see Pops and a few others are goin to PAP on the 20th. I'd like to do run in March/April maybe back to Rousch Creek

Originally Posted by MarineHawk I agree, though I'm increasingly of the opinon that intelligence and emotional competence are completely unrelated. I think idealists are ignorant inasmuch as they skip the second of the two basic steps in analyzing things: (1) identifying an applicable theory; and (2) assessing its value by applying it pragmatically to real circumstances. For idealists (often liberals), the theory is the end unto itself. They completely skip any rigorous application of step 2. How many times in college did I hear the mindless regurgitation of such preposterous statements as (1) "In theory, communism is the ideal governmental system"; and (2) "It is better that 10,000 criminals go free than one innocent person be imprisoned." Number 1 is wrong, because the theory only works with machine-like being who do not have emotions or the need to continuing economic incentives. It does not, however, work with human beings. A social theory that does not work with humans has no value at all. Number 2 is ridiculous because 10,000 violent criminals going free would cause suffering and death by innocent people on a scale incomparable to one innocent person's regretable loss of freedom.

Originally Posted by MarineHawk I agree, though I'm increasingly of the opinon that intelligence and emotional competence are completely unrelated.

Originally Posted by DennisAJC Therefore there is a relation to some degree between intelligence and emotional competence.

Originally Posted by CO Hummer I slightly disagree. There is a lack of consensus about a general theory of competence, and therefore, little to guide researchers in selecting and evaluating dimensions of communicative or emotional competence. I find that literature consists of numerous proposed dimensions, but that few of these have undergone rigorous assessment and evaluation. I advocate combining knowledge of how to behave with actual performance in order to distinguish competence, and i argue that competence also implies standards of appropriateness and effectiveness.

Your drivel was anticipated.
To simplify for you as best as I can relate to a lower facimile of human life. Your argument enevitably points to the eternalquestion as to the general state of human nature.
Natural productions are generally formed by degrees.Vegetables grow from a tender shoot, and animals from an infant state. The latter being destined to act, extend their operations as their powers increase: they exhibit a progress, in what they perform, as well as in the faculties they acquire. This progress in the case of man is continued to a greater extent than in that of any other animal. Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilization. Hence the supposed departure of mankind from the state of their nature; hence our conjectures and different opinions of what man must have been in the first age of his being. The poet, the historian, and the moralist, frequently allude to this ancient time; and under the emblems of gold, or of iron, represent a condition, and a manner of life, from which mankind have either degenerated, or on which they have greatly improved. On either supposition, the first state of our nature must have borne no resemblance to what men have exhibited in any subsequent period; historical monuments, even of the earliest date, are to be considered as novelties; and the most common establishments of human society are to be classed among the incroachments which fraud, oppression, or a busy invention, have made upon the reign of nature, by which the chief of ourgrievances or blessings were equally with-held. Among the writers who have attempted to distinguish, in the human character, its original qualities, and to point out the limits between nature and art, some have represented mankind in their first condition,as possessed of mere animal sensibility, without any exercise of the faculties that render them superior to the brutes, without
any political union, without any means of explaining their entiments, and even without possessing any of the apprehensions and passions which the voice and the gesture are so well fitted to express. Others have made the state of nature to consist in perpetual wars, kindled by competition for dominion and interest,where every individual had a separate quarrel with his kind, and where the presence of a fellow-creature was the signal of battle.The desire of laying the foundation of a favourite system, or a fond expectation, perhaps, that we may be able to penetrate the secrets of nature, to the very source of existence, have, on this subject, led to many fruitless inquiries, and given rise to many
wild suppositions. Among the various qualities which mankind possess, we select one or a few particulars on which to establish a theory, and in framing our account of what man was in some imaginary state of nature, we overlook what he has always appeared within the reach of our own observation, and in the records of history.

In every other instance, however, the natural historian thinks himself obliged to collect facts, not to offerconjectures. When he treats of any particular species of animals,
he supposes, that their present dispositions and instincts are the same they originally had, and that their present manner of life is a continuance of their first destination. He admits, that his knowledge of the material system of the world consists in a collection of facts, or at most, in general tenets derived from particular observations and experiments. It is only in what relates to himself, and in matters the most important, and the most easily known, that he substitutes hypothesis instead of reality, and confounds the provinces of imagination and reason,of poetry and science.

Originally Posted by DennisAJC he substitutes hypothesis instead of reality, and confounds the provinces of imagination and reason, of poetry and science.

Are you kidding me?

Originally Posted by CO Hummer Are you kidding me? There are at least three further good reasons for making provision for at least some students to write science poetry. First, Gardner suggested that we have at least seven different intelligences, where intelligence means the ability to solve problems or create products of value within a cultural setting: linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal or “social,” and intrapersonal or intuitive. He has recently added a naturalistic intelligence, and is working on a spiritual intelligence. Future successful adults will need to be resourceful and flexible, and use many of these different ways of being intelligent, or smart. For example, one can combine science with drama and music to create, in an audience, an increased awareness of how scientific discoveries are affecting, or may affect, our lives. :OWNED:

Originally Posted by DRTYFN I'm stupid so I don't get any of this.:jump::jump:

Originally Posted by DRTYFN I'm stupid so I don't get any of this.

Originally Posted by CO Hummer Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Like PhilD says, stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine.