re: High IQ and social awkwardness

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have you ever tried to have a conversation with an ant?

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is an ant a person ?


I said anyone, not anything



stupid much?

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Because they can't relate to those with lower thought processes. I'm sure you baws would feel awkward with a physicist.

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Depends on the subject.

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have you ever tried to have a conversation with an ant?
yes

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Depends on the subject.

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Of course it does, but generally speaking, there's a huge gap in common interests on either side. The issue is, there are 95% of one, 5% of the other, so they're deemed as awkward.

I find if I drink enough, I can cross the semantic bridge and enjoy the lower levels of consciousness.

I’m sure most people have to do this.

a buncha stupid losers justifying their loserdom


pathetic

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find if I drink enough, I can cross the semantic bridge and enjoy the lower levels of consciousness.

I’m sure most people have to do this.

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Agreed, it's why I feel the need to almost always drink for social gatherings. It isn't healthy, but it's beneficial in my career field.

The garbage that average, and below average, IQ people find interesting and funny just escapes them. It all seems trivial and not worth wasting time on because it is. They find human interaction exhausting and need solitary time to recharge. You just have to get into a crowd and look around at what surrounds you to see how basic most humans are.

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They find human interaction exhausting and need solitary time to recharge.

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thats an introvert( Meyer-Briggs)


not all introverts are geniuses
and not all geniuses are introverts



Intelligent introverts CAN tend to use that alone time constructively and build up their knowledge/skills but to suggest that Intelligence and introverts is intrinsic is a falsehood.

and Im an intelligent introvert, but im not so insecure about my intelligence i feel the need to prove it

Plus I have others positive attributes

like my hair

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In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share. -- T.S. Eliot

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Thank you for posting that. I'd say it's even more true now than when he wrote it. It also calls to mind a couple of points where he riffs on that idea, if from a different angle, in The Four Quartets:

It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence—
Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy
Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution,
Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning the past.

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A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.

The last bit I pasted, coupled with your quote, come to mind as I think about current events and how various segments of society have turned to the past with mindless anger.

/hijack