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Yuratuhl wrote:
1st graders, conceptually, don't have the brain for calculus. You're exaggerating just a little bit.


Conceptually speaking, the average 6 year old is better suited to do simple addition and subtraction ;) I had a teacher come to me at the elementary school to work on Trig and Calculus with me and work on Algebra and Geometry with 2 of my classmates. I did not mean to insinuate that I had mastered Calculus at 6. I was, however, being instructed in the subject.


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You are what you portray to the world. Without the academic connections related to fantastic grades, an individual must rely on social connections and personality to get ahead. At the moment you don't appear to be exploiting either option.

The SAT and Stanford-Binet are measures of potential. Potential is nothing without the corresponding ambition. I received a perfect score on my SATs and ACTs, have a genius IQ (and was admitted into Mensa at 6), maintained a 4.0 in college, where I received 3 degrees in 2 years. I think I am able to comfortably state that I am exceptionally intelligent. I don't, however, spend my time blathering on constantly about how everyone is beneath me and trying to make myself look smarter. I don't need the validation. You appear to need this, which is one of the reasons I made my assessment.

I won't dispute the waning exclusivity of academic degrees, but acquiring a Doctorate is more than cramming for a test the night before a skimming on by. I didn't say that getting poor grades means that you are not intelligent. Several years ago that was me. The 1st grader that read at a college level and could do calculus, but never did homework. However, once I was in college where it "counted," I did all of the mundane assignments and did what I needed to do to get the A. It was my currency for entry into the workforce. (It is not the ONLY thing that employers look at, but definitely important.)


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I don't, however, spend my time blathering on constantly about how everyone is beneath me and trying to make myself look smarter.


Your post is despicably hypocritical because that is exactly what you are doing.

Your part in this entire thread has been insisting that the ways in which you define worth, merit and intelligence are correct and that not only is any other definition incorrect, but no one who defines those things in differing ways could possibly possess those virtues themself.

Every argument you make in favor of your own merit is in some way defined in terms of your acceptance in a group, whether by an educational institution or MENSA. You further argue that the only path to success is through institutional recognition, which corroborates your overall theme, but isn't actually true - and that falsehood speaks volumes about your hypocrisy behind it.

Nothing you have said is about you as an individual, or what you have done outside these purely elitist settings. I call them elitist because they exist expressly for the purpose of exclusion and not the realization of actual goals. Therefore, what they mean to you, is just what you claim to despise, which is putting oneself above others.

All of which has gotten you where? What have you done outside the purely institutional? Your perfect SAT/ACT scores, your 4.0 GPA, your degrees - what have you gotten from all that? Will you move and shake this world to an extent that correlates with your position on the academic curve or will you not? Answer me that.

And what of those who are successful but don't have those qualities, nor even charisma? Doesn't the fact that MOST of the world's biggest and most successful movers and shakers DON'T have those things prove that they are specious as measures of worth or ability after all?


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What will your 2.8 GPA get you? What will your intolerable personality get you? How about you answer that before questioning those infinitely more qualified than you.

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Sorry Callysta you have to be wrong because you're a girl and girls are dumb and your vagina makes all of your arguments invalid.

AM I DOIN' IT RIGHT?



Also, I've never seen Callysta brag about anything she mentioned in her previous post before. Seems pretty obvious she was using it as an example to explain her point of view-- which is a very reasonable one.

It's ok though Aestu, by now we all are more familiar with your style and with the exception of a few people you really seem to rub the wrong way there is no malice directed at you here. I think most people are concerned for you, though. I do hope that when you're ready you can explore some options for help or therapy and at least start feeling better about life.


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What will your 2.8 GPA get you? What will your intolerable personality get you? How about you answer that before questioning those infinitely more qualified than you.

Know your place.


Place...?

It's a goddamn internet forum and no one who posts here is a world-strider. Get a grip.

My personality is not "intolerable". It is not as inclined towards making friends and mollifying others, but it is not a purely negative thing. The world needs all kinds.

I have no crystal ball in which to see the future. There is more than one path in life. That may not satisfy you or even me but it is a valid answer nonetheless.


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Sorry Callysta you have to be wrong because you're a girl and girls are dumb and your vagina makes all of your arguments invalid.

AM I DOIN' IT RIGHT?

Also, I've never seen Callysta brag about anything she mentioned in her previous post before. Seems pretty obvious she was using it as an example to explain her point of view-- which is a very reasonable one.

It's ok though Aestu, by now we all are more familiar with your style and with the exception of a few people you really seem to rub the wrong way there is no malice directed at you here. I think most people are concerned for you, though. I do hope that when you're ready you can explore some options for help or therapy and at least start feeling better about life.


I made no mention of her gender and I explained very clearly why her statement was not merely rhetorical but hypocritical.

And you, Akiina?

Do you think you have a bad personality? Do you think you are a bad person? Do you think you are a failure of a human being? Certainly there's no shortage of people who hate you and think you're a fat, power-hungry bitch and have all sorts of grievances with you that led them to part ways with you - to the detriment of your own interests and reputation.

Now, of course you don't think you're worthy of being hated. You don't think you're a worthless and horrible human being. And maybe you're right, maybe you're not.

Doesn't that put you in my boat, though? You say, not everyone hates me, I do get along with some people. Of course I don't get along with quite a few...just like you.

So what makes you think you are in a position to say I am a pathological individual when you are in the very same predicament?


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Callysta wasn't bragging, she was establishing her credibility.

If she wanted to brag, she could say she had a bigger cock than you do. and she'd probably be right.


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Aestu wrote:
Akiina wrote:
Sorry Callysta you have to be wrong because you're a girl and girls are dumb and your vagina makes all of your arguments invalid.

AM I DOIN' IT RIGHT?

Also, I've never seen Callysta brag about anything she mentioned in her previous post before. Seems pretty obvious she was using it as an example to explain her point of view-- which is a very reasonable one.

It's ok though Aestu, by now we all are more familiar with your style and with the exception of a few people you really seem to rub the wrong way there is no malice directed at you here. I think most people are concerned for you, though. I do hope that when you're ready you can explore some options for help or therapy and at least start feeling better about life.


I made no mention of her gender and I explained very clearly why her statement was not merely rhetorical but hypocritical.

And you, Akiina?

Do you think you have a bad personality? Do you think you are a bad person? Do you think you are a failure of a human being? Certainly there's no shortage of people who hate you and think you're a fat, power-hungry bitch and have all sorts of grievances with you that led them to part ways with you - to the detriment of your own interests and reputation.

Now, of course you don't think you're worthy of being hated. You don't think you're a worthless and horrible human being. And maybe you're right, maybe you're not.

Doesn't that put you in my boat, though? You say, not everyone hates me, I do get along with some people. Of course I don't get along with quite a few...just like you.

So what makes you think you are in a position to say I am a pathological individual when you are in the very same predicament?


First of all, the thing about being a girl was a joke. The rest of my post was sincere. You seem to have mixed that up.

Also, why is that the only thing anyone can ever say about me? lol.


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Also, why is that the only thing anyone can ever say about me? lol.


It could be because it is true and you are a fat, ugly and mean person who deserves to die horribly.

That is one possibility. Perhaps it is something else.

And that is my point.


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Someone is feeling especially hostile this evening. I can't really blame you given the nature of this thread though, I suppose.


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Someone is feeling especially hostile this evening. I can't really blame you given the nature of this thread though, I suppose.


My hostility is rhetorical. I never said you were fat, ugly and mean.


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I don't know what planet you're on Aestu, but here on Earth someone with a 4.0 and multiple degrees is more qualified than a struggling 2.8'er who is still an undergrad and that many people detest. You can pretend that one day you will be successful like some billionaires who managed to invest in the right place at the right time or came up with some world-changing environment with little to no formal upper level education. but that's being "unreal," as you like to put it. And pretending is for four-year-olds, grow up. Don't bother making the argument that the system is flawed - that may be so, but we live in the here and now and it won't change anytime soon so it is a waste of time for you to try that route.

Realistically, you will become a nobody; even less than kind of person you claim to hate (those who are mediocre). Those of us who managed to play WoW while simultaneously maintaining a good grades will be graduating, getting good jobs, getting our Ph. D's, MD's, etc. and will be wiping our asses with the faces of failures such as yourself. So don't try an downplay callysta's achievements, or any of ours for that matter, just because you're not good enough to accomplish anything other than 146 mounts.


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Also, why is that the only thing anyone can ever say about me? lol.


It could be because it is true and you are a fat, ugly and mean person who deserves to die horribly.

That is one possibility. Perhaps it is something else.

And that is my point.


Having actually seen what Akiina looks like. Your wrong in your assumption Aestu.


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