Sincere open honest and earnest isnt generous, humorous, engaged or interested which all tend to be decent starting points to discuss things with people ime
Now im not everybodys cup of tea neither granted
― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
if the ilxor covertly known as LJ and currently using the dn 'imago', could rehabilitate himself as an ilxor, no one's case is hopeless.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Lots of smart people are pretty dumb. Each finds a different way to be dumb. It's a vast tapestry.
Loads of people (myself included!) got called "gifted and talented" in childhood. But it almost never manifested in a way that made us happier, better-functioning, or less inclined to make terrible life decisions. I would gladly trade 90% of that attention for marginally better life skills.
I don't love the framing of "emotional intelligence" or "multiple intelligences" - much of which is clearly designed to flatter more than to describe. But it does seem like it's not a single sliding scale of smart > stupid. I'm good at some stuff. I suck at some stuff. Same is true of everybody.
Finally, to the ableism point: I have some Feelz(TM) here. My 10-year-old son is pretty seriously intellectually disabled. He's mostly nonverbal and is unlikely to ever talk, write, do math, or read at grade level. At some point he might be able to bag groceries. And I love him utterly because he is my son. He's affectionate, funny, and pleasant to be around. Smart/stupid just doesn't really apply, he's himself and when I'm with him, that's what matters.
― Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
My dad used to call me "severely gifted".
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 3 May 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Conflating intelligence with worth is why this is a radioactive topic. These things need to be disentangled, utterly so.
― treeship., Monday, 3 May 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
xp ye mad puffin
― treeship., Monday, 3 May 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
I think in pretty much every context where I employ 'stupid' as a pejorative I almost always actually mean 'lazy'. So something more akin to 'Clearly you have an intellectual capacity roughly commensurate with the task you're undertaking so the fact that it's become a deeply flawed (if not failed) undertaking seems to be more about your unwillingness to expend effort than your ability, idiot.'
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
OL brings the truth bomb
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
xpost (Like, generally as applied to work-related concerns, if that wasn't obvious.)
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
I don't seem to be able to do that. everything is just read as trolling at this point
― brimstead, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
I’ve done it too
you seems genuinely full of bad feelings for people and that’s OK but it’s not trolling
― brimstead, Monday, 3 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
I am interested in learning more about Left.
Left, your rigidity is anathema to me, it just is, but I trust that it’s sincere. What led you to this militant outlook?
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 May 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
I felt genuine kinship with you when you talked about being misinterpreted on ilx. I know i sound dickish now but i don’t mean to.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 May 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
regarding earlier posts: I love the iconography of tarot, just as art. I love all of the tarot traditions - early Italian, Marseilles, Etteilla, Rider-Waite-Smith, Thoth, and the Celtic Wheel of the Year. The confluence of the Kabbalah, the Tree of Life, astrology, numerology, the Waite-Smith tradition, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and especially colour symbolism in the images of the Thoth tarot is very deep and is fascinating
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
I don't read you as a troll, Left, there just tends to be a pattern in your posts of saying "this artist/person/opinion is shit" with an added implication of "and you're morally suspect for engaging with them/their work." And I don't assume that that's your intention, but it doesn't really contribute to a great vibe on a board that spends of lot of time talking about music and movies and art made by less than morally upright people, and where politics discussions are already well aware of how terrible everything is and mainly divided about the relative merits of purity and incrementalism. I think your posts about music that you enjoy are good!
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 02:17 (two years ago) link
My mum always says stupid is as stupid does
― Pinefox reviews Reviews (wins), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 08:56 (two years ago) link
She’s a fucking dimwit though
I like my mum's daft mixed metaphors in an Irish accent that don't make any sense - there is some wisdom in there somewhere!
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
She once said, when I was starting a bookie job: "when you are dealing with money, don't even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing"
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
I am generally speaking smart because I realized this thread was gonna go into tl;dr territory 100 posts ago
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
I can generally figure things out but I also do dumb shit all the time: the Duality of Man
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
This is funny to me because back when I worked construction in the summers, that last part was the foreman's favorite insult for people he perceived as dumb. I.e. "that new laborer is so stupid his left hand don't know what his right is doing".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
when you are dealing with money, don't even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
Her use of it makes sense if we go by this definition:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/225650.html
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
Oh, it's from the Bible.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
where does “overthinking” come into play?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
Also the Bible
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 11 June 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
67 vs 6 imo
― Eschew things thirty two times before swallowing them (darraghmac), Friday, 11 June 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link