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« Reply #70 on: October 15, 2010, 02:30:PM » |
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As far as doing poorly socially, that is and isn't true. Geeks and nerds have lots of friends who are other geeks and nerds, and usually friends who are not geeks and nerds but of the same sex. It's with the opposite sex they do poorly. Which might explain why they become geeks and nerds. If you suck at sports or are goofy looking or sickly or what have you, you probably spend a lot of time alone, so you start reading. And books are the beginning of the end. Pretty soon you're spending more time in the non-fiction section of the library than the fiction section, and it ain't in the sports biography section, either. Then you actually want to do what you're reading about, which isn't sports, and the next thing you know you're winding Tesla coils in your basement and blowing fuses. Which at least gives you something to do while other people are at homecoming.
Another factor is the rarity. The curve shows that people further from the centre will be more lonely. After all, to a person with an IQ of around 170, the average person is like a profoundly retarded person to an average person. As a child, I was very active and physically capable, but at school, I was always chosen second to last for teams (the gym teacher would automatically assign me and the fat girl (there always was one) to a team to avoid anyone being last), not because I wasn't capable (in most sports, I did well for the team I was on) but because I truly wasn't interested and it showed. I felt nothing for any team based sport. It was only me and everyone else, mainly because everyone else was too different from me for me to have any connection to them. As a child, all my friends were girls for some reason now that I think of it. Sensitive girls who like kittens, or nerdy girls? This is more or less what I was thinking. If very intelligent people marry late, it's because they have a harder time than others finding a suitable mate. Now, I know one certifiable genius who is married to a really stupid woman and I don't understand that at all. But in general, from what I have seen, most very smart people need -- don't just want -- to be with someone else who is smart. And it may take years to find that person. Another issue that may delay marriage is to find a spouse with a suitable dowry. This may take a lifetime. Don't waste your time. Get a good education instead, so you can support your wife and numerous children without having to hit up your father-in-law for money. I hope you realize I'm smiling broadly as I type this. What's wrong with people nowadays? Can't they just marry for the right reasons like money and prestige? The demise of marriage began when people started entertaining dangerous ideas like marrying for love and passion. Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion. |
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« Reply #71 on: October 15, 2010, 02:33:PM » |
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Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion.
Not as ephemeral, they can last longer if you know how to administer things. Passion, on the other hand, will inevitably die out. On a second note, love can be faked for convenience purposes, money and prestige can't. |
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"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #72 on: October 15, 2010, 02:36:PM » |
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Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion.
Not as ephemeral, they can last longer if you know how to administer things. Passion, on the other hand, will inevitably die out. On a second note, love can be faked for convenience purposes, money and prestige can't. Oh hoh. Of course they can be faked. But what does a Catholic care about wealth and prestige? |
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« Reply #73 on: October 15, 2010, 02:52:PM » |
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Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion.
Not as ephemeral, they can last longer if you know how to administer things. Passion, on the other hand, will inevitably die out. On a second note, love can be faked for convenience purposes, money and prestige can't. Oh hoh. Of course they can be faked. But what does a Catholic care about wealth and prestige? You'll most likely end up in jail if you fake them. As for wealth and prestige, it's a matter of personal preference. The rich can get to Heaven, the important thing is to be poor in spirit, not in wallet. |
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #74 on: October 15, 2010, 02:56:PM » |
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Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion.
Not as ephemeral, they can last longer if you know how to administer things. Passion, on the other hand, will inevitably die out. On a second note, love can be faked for convenience purposes, money and prestige can't. Oh hoh. Of course they can be faked. But what does a Catholic care about wealth and prestige? You'll most likely end up in jail if you fake them. As for wealth and prestige, it's a matter of personal preference. The rich can get to Heaven, the important thing is to be poor in spirit, not in wallet. Hard to be poor in spirit if you're hankering after wealth and marrying for money. |
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« Reply #75 on: October 15, 2010, 03:01:PM » |
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Money and prestige, why not? They are just as ephemeral as looks and passion.
Not as ephemeral, they can last longer if you know how to administer things. Passion, on the other hand, will inevitably die out. On a second note, love can be faked for convenience purposes, money and prestige can't. Oh hoh. Of course they can be faked. But what does a Catholic care about wealth and prestige? You'll most likely end up in jail if you fake them. As for wealth and prestige, it's a matter of personal preference. The rich can get to Heaven, the important thing is to be poor in spirit, not in wallet. Hard to be poor in spirit if you're hankering after wealth and marrying for money. That is an unsported assumption at best. Furthermore, no matter how shocking this may be to the marxist-catholics out there, the rich do get to Heaven. |
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #76 on: October 15, 2010, 03:30:PM » |
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The problem with being rich is one can afford more sins and there are less people willing to tell you that you suck and need to straighten up. That's why Hollywood and the music industry are the way they are.
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« Reply #77 on: October 15, 2010, 04:00:PM » |
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I really don't think we should place too much emphasis on the Intelligent Quotient. What is intrinsically valuable, however, is humility.
Focusing too much on one's IQ score most often tends to the antithesis of what is intrinsically valuable.
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« Reply #78 on: October 15, 2010, 04:06:PM » |
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The problem with being rich is one can afford more sins and there are less people willing to tell you that you suck and need to straighten up. That's why Hollywood and the music industry are the way they are.
Nevertheless, they can get to Heaven if they lead moral lives. Wealth is not an impediment. On the other hand, the poor also face problems like envy and covetousness. Being materially poor is not a blessing in itself. |
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
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"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #79 on: October 15, 2010, 04:15:PM » |
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The problem with being rich is one can afford more sins and there are less people willing to tell you that you suck and need to straighten up. That's why Hollywood and the music industry are the way they are.
Nevertheless, they can get to Heaven if they lead moral lives. Wealth is not an impediment. It is possible, yes, but it certainly is difficult: Matthew 19:24 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Luke 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:23 Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. James 1:11 For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Luke 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. Luke 6:24 But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. 1 Timothy 6:9 For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. James 5:1 found 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. |
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I n N omine P atris, E t F ilii, E t S piritus S ancti "The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative magisterium" (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, no. 9, June 29, 1896). “Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time” (2 Peter 1:10).
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