We are not smart enough to understand life and have a clear view of what happends around us,but we are smart enough to think about it and try to understand it,without being able to.\nWouldn't it be better to either be smart enough to understand it,or to be stupid enough to not even care?
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You make a valid point. Some people are stupid enough to not care, but no one is intelligent enough to know the answer to everything. I don't feel it is torture though, I enjoy learning, thinking, meditating and trying to figure out life. It is a challenge, an adventure for me, and I love a good challenge!
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We may have a gallon of brain matter inside our heads,\nbut some, if not many of us, only have a shot glass of knowledge, reasoning, and logic up there.\n\nI mean, look at the Deep South of the US???\n\nAn entire hive of bees have more logic than the entire region.\n\nWill this be "to go"?
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How do we know that atoms aren't conscious?  If we are made of the same spacedust that everything in the universe is, albeit in a complex and dynamic arrangement, then perhaps all matter and even time itself has a form of existence and experience.  Maybe we are not even individuals.  Just because most people think they are making decisions for themselves doesn't mean they are just running on some form of autopilot.  I read that the part of the brain involved in complex decision making processes finishes neural activity sometimes up to two minutes before a person thinks 'they' have decided.   On the matter of whether God created us for his own sake, I think it would be alot more likely that people created the concept of God for their own sakes.  If we are in God's soup, I'd liken our fate more to that of a fly than a cracker.
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I believe we are set on a certain path for this life, and that path remains hidden to us until we pass on.  For this reason, life is better taken in stride, letting it unfold before you as opposed to expecting this or that.  We don't control anything, but rather live under the illusion of control.
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I think it would be safer to generalize by saying that immoral people tend to be more stupid than people with higher morals.  Low moral people think with their genitals, high moral people think with their hearts and minds.  They don't trade what they want MOST (happiness) for what they want NOW (sex or acceptance.)
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This assumes that people were brighter in the past.\n Which they just were not.   Hence, Hitler ; Stalin;Mao;\nKim il Sung.   To name but a few. \n I have found that those who think everyone else is not as smart as themselves, are usualy quite thick and ignorant.\n\n                              Victor
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You are my hero. \nAlas, but for the fool. Ignorance may be overcome with education, However, stupidity is a life-long endeavor.
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Be an example.  It's hard to save the world on your own.  But if you set a positive, loving example and show the world what it is like to be kind and considerate others just might catch on.  That's what I am trying to do.  We can eliminate stupidity with our example.
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Children may be smart, but there are certain things that they don't need to know until they fully comprehend.  Why fill their heads with adult stuff when they have plenty of time and learn more while having fun.
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Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get: That there are surprises in life. You encounter a situation, and you never know what it may hold for you (Like biting into a chocolate; it may be orange creme, or cherry.)\n\nStupid is as stupid does: You are judged by what you do. If you behave in a way that people think is stupid, then you are considered stupid. What you do is what you are.
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I agree with you, but I can still see that a lot of people make a living on 'knowing' and also there are some people who want to know just how far they can push the line before it is too late, which I feel is just silly.  There are also people who just don't like not knowing something that big. I agree with you, though.  It isn't necessary to life that we know everything. Now is what we have, live it.
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Agreed.  Not being a psychology expert or even close, I've also always believed that intelligent people tend to be very understanding, non-judgemental and not opinionated...almost indecisive, if you will.  My reasoning for this is that an intelligent person tends to look at the whole picture of everything and to try to understand why things are..not just to take them at face value.  Very few things in life are truly black and white and I think that intelligent people realize this and try to look at things from many different angles.
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((Grandpaw  Aaron will answer this one, OK))\n\nLittle girl, In my day, we kids had to walk 12 miles through the snow, 8 feet deep, to go to school, even in da summer.  \nThere, we might find only one other person whom we thought was as smart as us. Usually, tho, we wuz taught to fear everone.\n\nToday, whatwith this Internetie thang, ya get more answers, and mabbe some smart answers at thet; but, are you better off?  \nI SAY NO, you don't know anything about me, or the other people what answers yer questions here, mabbe they make up stuff, and you'd believe it.  \n\nBetter off, if you go off and throwed yer dern cumputer into the trash, and read books.  \n\nThe world is too big, too scary for you, best to stay inside, best for you to jest cover up yer head wid yer covers, and pray its all over soon.
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being stupid is not forever... you can learn while travelling the journey... learning during the younger years will make you someday wise even if you're already old... being young is a joy forever!!! that's why, enjoy life while being young... u'll regret someday if you didn't...
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The beginning of real wisdom lies in realizing how little you actually know. Thinking of it as a journey, You have to have a starting point to begin. Now some of us come to this starting  point a whole lot sooner than others. I have been lucky enough to meet quite a few people who I would consider "Wise". They have ranged in age from 80 year old men and women to a child who though just born had the wisdom and love of the ages in their eyes. So who can say where true wisdom lies? I don't think age has a lot to do with it. Though I will say that part of the journey is not only learning from our own mistakes and triumphs but also learning from others. Because lets face it none of use have the time to make all the mistakes ourself. I'll say one last thing and then shut up. One of the greatest pieces of wisdom I was given came from my children. We were watching the news and on it was a story about the war in Iraq. My son looked at me and asked why everyone was fighting. I told him "To be honest I'm not really sure." He thought for a moment and said "Why don't they play dodge-ball then when they are all done everyone can get up and have ice cream?" to which my daughter said "And then we could all have a picnic."
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Because we need a foundation, and exposure to different things if we're ever going to build up some structure of intelligence and understanding of the world. We all use math, biology, english, chemistry, physics, and dozens of other things every day in our lives. Some of us are just not aware we are doing it. And can't see the relation between what we learned, and what is happening.\n\nThere may be no obvious connection at all times, but it is there. Just leave your mind open for now. How can you like or dislike something you've never experienced or been exposed to? Is it better to have had the experience, and then made up your mind on your own? Ignorance may be bliss, but I assure you that a lifetime of ignorance of things leads to a very limited understanding of the world.
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i think some people actually refuse to believe in God because they feel it makes them look less intelligent or weak, i know that believing in God doesnt mean you are dumb, but some feel that way. Some just cant get over the suffering and things on earth today, and believe that no God would allow that to happen. This is perfectly understandable,but if they only looked to the Bible to find the truth they would see the very real reasons for everything mankind is struggling with right now. When you dont have God, life is shallow, vain and shortlived,the world is a cold place, and God has put in place provisions for all of us to get out. If only people would give God a chance instead of following the crowd, imagine the difference it would make?\n\nOh and by the way "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld" so you dont have to SEE something to have faith in it.