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akaj1sh1 April 22 2009, 04:56:37 UTC
Why thank you very much! I wouldn't have expected to have received full marks on my paper, since you said that you were a harsh grader than the professor.

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ringoapples April 22 2009, 05:01:32 UTC
You only got full marks because it was so interesting and informative :).

Not the normal humdrum I see.

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akaj1sh1 April 22 2009, 05:09:26 UTC
Well, when the subject is interesting, then one cannot help than want to figure out things and do proper research into the matter.

If that is the case, then I should thank you for thinking that way about my work, even if it was not that long a paper.

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ringoapples April 22 2009, 05:18:24 UTC
Of course that's what is expected, though rarely seen.

I welcome new ideas. My office is always open if you would ever like to discuss.

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akaj1sh1 April 22 2009, 05:37:37 UTC
Of course it is rarely seen - there are those students who do not use the single brain-cell they were given. There are others that try to use their mind, though completely fail to use it to their complete potential for various reasons. Then again, there are others who are the rough, rare gems among the many countless worthless, unusable rocks that are worth finding. As they learn, they get shaped and given form until it becomes a very, very valuable gem.

At least, that is how I would explain the bell curve on intelligence.

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ringoapples April 22 2009, 05:45:16 UTC
Heh.

So then where do you view Mu? As those who fail to use their potential and are caught up in trivial matters?

Though, perhaps there is a slight hope after all. Current demographics indicate the average IQ is on the rise. All that's left is to guide those who would get lost :).

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akaj1sh1 April 22 2009, 06:42:29 UTC
The average? Well, they are useful in their own ways, and while they learn, they do so at a much slower rate than those that are quicker to catch on to the more complex theories, problems and solutions.

Trivial matters, yes. Everything trivial, however, it might just depend on who is judging them. There are those who are able to perceive and observe things while entirely detaching themselves emotionally, while others still cannot make a single decision without first consulting how they feel about any given matter. Quite the complex world we live in, isn't it?

It's well enough that the average IQ is on the rise. It would be quite dreadful to live in a place where the intelligence of any given person falls below that of a pig, or any other animal thereof.

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ringoapples April 22 2009, 06:54:24 UTC
Some things are subjective, yes. Though on a grand scale trivial things would account to those such as a break-up, or idle gossip.

Undoubtedly. Though people just like animals seem to need direction-- lest they lose their way.

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akaj1sh1 April 22 2009, 07:17:43 UTC
Break-ups bring emotional turmoil, stress, and possible depression. Besides, the fact that the break up is basically a severing of emotional attachment to another person might not be seen as trivial as some might make it seem to be. Some take it well enough, but for others it might be a traumatic event in their lives which might define how they approach relationships in the future for the better, or [more often than not] for worse.

Idle gossip, however, I can completely understand

Why else would we have the governments of today if it weren't for that one fact? There are the leaders, and there are the followers. People from ages past saw the need to have a ruler in order to have a sort of stability, lest lawlessness runs rampant and have personal security compromised.

Of course governments have evolved from the city-states of yore and the kingdoms in which the ruler was the absolute law of the land [i.e. The Pharaohs of Egypt, or Louis XIV - The Sun King who proclaimed "L'état, c'est moi"].

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ringoapples April 22 2009, 19:08:15 UTC
Nn, but if the person has their priorities straight...break-ups really shouldn't amount to much.

Indeed, but those rules were chosen through Divine Rights, not by how suitable they were for the task. Therein lies the flaw in that system and why it was abolished.

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