Carl-Richard

If you look at how the words are generally used, you never see somebody calling an earthworm "an intellectual", or saying it has a sharp intellect, or is engaged in intellectual activities. On the other hand, "intelligence" is often used to describe things like animal intelligence ("the worm is able to locate food without seeing; it's intelligent") or even non-animal intelligence ("mushrooms and trees are able to communicate through mycelia and root systems; they're intelligent"). "Intellect" is used to refer to human capacities like conceptual thinking, abstract reasoning, sapience, while "intelligence" can be used to refer to everything from simple life forms to intellectual geniuses. The problem with modern society is that people tend to treat intellect as the only form of intelligence that actually matters.

I think a superiority complex can often occur as a way to compensate for something that you're lacking which is often quite obvious. For example, I didn't do well in high school (for a myriad of reasons), and I would develop a superiority complex around that which said: "actually, I'm really smart, if you just get to know me... my friends call me smart all the time... just wait, I'll show you".

My breakfast: 3 organic eggs, scrambled on medium heat, slightly runny. 3 super-thin slices of toasted 60-90% whole wheat bread. 1/2 of a hand-sized fruit (e.g. orange, kiwi, apple, peach, etc.) Spread the scrambled eggs equally on each slice of bread, eat them warm, and eat the fruit as a dessert. And if you say "cholesterol" or "acrylamide", phOk you.

Frank Zappa is a goldmine of these kinds of quotes:

What about instead of remember, you can't shake the feeling?

Lol just scroll through my latest posts on the death penalty.

He can still have an opinion. If you want my personal experiences, I study psychology, and I noticed the time I went for a short practice visit where minorities meet each other to practice speaking Norwegian, after speaking with a person who wasn't dumb by any means but just new to the language (he had a PhD in math didactics), and afterwards while speaking to my classmate, it felt like my mind was severely slowed down from having simplified my language for 2 hours straight. I think social interactions in general work the same way. Regardless of what you're talking about, you have to simplify your thinking so that people can understand you, and it might make you less smart if that is how you spend most of your time.

Lol. We disagree with Leo all the time.

Adversity is a broad concept, is all I'm saying.

@Roy I get it, you hire people and pay them by letting them stay in the bunker. I was thinking "hire" implies money payment.

Where you gonna buy shit?

How do you hire someone for the apocalypse?

This is a tad presumptuous. You don't know Leo personally. Socializing with the right people can make you smarter.

New Agers throwing their hands up in the air is actually a part of every subject on this forum, apparently.

I'm saying society was poorer 100 years ago as a whole. Regardless, if you're serious about spiritual practice, you should generally avoid entertaining thoughts that externalize responsibility ("x, y and z is not my fault, it's society's fault"). If it's a part of your life and you can't change it, it's not making your life harder. It is life.

Poverty is a constant distraction.

An amoeba or an ant is intelligent, but they don't have an intellect.

Compared to 100 years ago, not at all. You were distracted by survival all the time: poverty, disease, famine, war, etc.

At one point, you need to let go of that. You can't spend most of your day being bummed out about it, because then it will never happen. And stop blaming modern society. Your opportunity to become highly conscious is 100x greater than 100 years ago.

What?

There is New Age in the sense of embracing a form of spirituality which is stripped from tradition, and then there is New Age in the sense of thinking that spirituality is everything we need. When I use "New Age" in a derogatory way, I'm referring to the latter. No one.

@gettoefl What?

"Most people that society deems as intelligent are actually not very intelligent". Those people are called intellectuals.

Oh my god we need to burn New Agers on the fire.