If it hasn’t increased then how can you describe the increase? Our understanding has increased, not our intelligence as it is ever measured. With all the chemical additives and genetic modification to our food sources combined with more sedentary lifestyles, brain capacities have likely declined. People don’t even exercise their memories anymore, most do not remember the top ten phone numbers that they call.
I am simply describing different ways you can interact with the world and associating some of them with lower level of intelligence simply because they involve little to no thinking.
Would you agree that an organism that has no regard for consequences is unintelligent?
Such an organism may feel perfectly comfortable with its decisions but they nonetheless remain poor decisions in comparison to decisions of those organisms that feel perfectly comfortable to think before they act.
Higher intelligence displays restraint: selectivity regarding the manner in which one spends one’s energy. It makes fewer but more precise, thus more effective, moves.
Lower intelligence displays no restraint. It makes as many random, thoughtless, moves as possible with the hope that at least some of them will do the job.
Intelligent people wait, restraining themselves from every kind of activity, basically resting, in order to accumulate enough strength so that they can then attempt to resolve the main problem.
Unintelligent people, on the other hand, are divided. They want to resolve the main problem but . . . they also want to live. Unwilling to make sacrifices, they end up siding with the superficial.
You can’t have it both ways.
One of the main problems of the modern era is the fact that social roles have become too flexible. There is simply too much mobility and this is even encouraged. Everyone is free to be whatever they want to be. So, for example, a child of a peasant can nowadays become a lawyer, and this is even encouraged, since being a lawyer means more money and more popularity. Peasants are even shamed for being peasants and thus stimulated to compete for higher positions. The fact that such mobility makes people weaker, in terms of potentials they possess, is ignored. The focus is elsewhere . . . on money, on popularity, on pleasure, on peace. Noone aims for strength anymore.
This one is 26. 11 years younger than me. Her face has been cropped to protect the innocent. Anyone who says they’d rather have a 40 years old, all things being equal, is out of their minds.
No I’m not content with your loser philosophy. You are like darth vader, who lives in a sterile robot body suit, trying to drag me down to the lowest levels of the dark side. Maybe that’s why you believe you are a fleshbot and souls don’t exist.
How is your philosophy any less loser philosophy than his? I would say he is far more honest than you are. That already makes him more of a winner than you are.
…it is your reply that bears absolutely no relevance to what I actually said
You implied (by omitting otherwise) that older women with more life experience don’t come with beauty… it was merely an implication I picked up on and wanted to explore further. Can an older lady not have both? or were you simply saying that it doesn’t have to be part of the equation in a potential partner for you?
I have seen many mis-matched couples, but something about that relationship works for them. If I cannot picture myself being comfortable with a guy in public and around my family, then he is not for me… the factors being: height, looks, intellect/smarts, morals.
Are you kidding me? He doesn’t even have a philosophy…he’s a fucking nihilist that embraces his own death… He isn’t even honest either, when he loses an argument he never admits it, just says “I agree to disagree”…Honestly just shut the fuck up like everybody else should on this stupid website.
And here in lies the source of confusion which lead to you employing faulty reasoning with regard to what I said. Because I actually
implied no such thing. As I did not say older women have no beauty. I said beauty would not be for me the most important thing in
older women from a relationship perspective. Obviously it would be a factor. But a far more important one would be compatibility
If beauty was the most important factor then I might be more likely to go for younger women though not necessarily exclusively so