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I think you might be the fortunate exception rather than the rule
though David, unless you are an incredibly sexy great looking jock
who would be adored if he was dumb as dirt.
I have never liked my looks.
If I coud, I 'd change them to look like
some hot-shot entertainer like the star of
The Mentalist.
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You may be drawing an incorrect assumption based
on your own experience here.
Well, this was my experience over a long period of time
during which there were
NO exceptions at all, however slight.
Being in Mensa does not mean that u r infallible about everything.
People may have spoken ill of any imperfections of intelligence,
but I have never had anyone complain of my being too intelligent.
Actually, I am not sure how that woud work; like: "hay u !
U r too intelligent; u get the job done right. Y don 't screw it up ?"
Quote:I certainly am not Mensa material, but I have a few friends who are.
Each has admitted they were sometimes teased about being 'egg heads'
I 'm not sure what the opposite of tease is,
but nicknames were applied to me in a nice way, congenially.
The one that I remember from age 12 was "walking encyclopedia"
because I corrected some teachers in class and my corrections
were proven accurate by recourse to an encyclopedia that we
had in the classroom. Thay liked that. Until then, thay 'd
assumed that the definition of truth was what fell from the mouth
of the school teacher. Maybe thay felt that I was representing them.
The application of confrontational logic comes naturally to me,
almost like a reflex; it always did. (That 's good for cross-examination.)
Maybe that 's Y I was drawn to becoming a trial attorney.
I enjoyed the sword n shield work in front of the jury,
as long as I had my witnesses lined up there and looked good on liability.
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or some such and each deliberately provided wrong information
or missed a question on a test to avoid the snotty remarks that
would result from being 'perfect'.
That is fundamentally alien to my mind.
It is (vicariously) emotionally painful to think of anyone
degrading himself that way. That concept is the quintessence of anathema.
In the schools that I attended, good grades were held in hi esteem.
Thay implored me to tutor especially as testing time approached.
The
intensity of their supplications was
inversely proportional
to the time left before the test.
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Most kids don't want to be different and are sometimes treated
unkindly by at least some when they are.
I have heard that.
I don t relate to it. I
never tried to fit in. I was my own leader.
I have always been very individualistic, libertarian n hedonistic;
(which is another way of saying that I did what I damn well pleased).
Once when I was 9, I decided to go to a store n buy something.
(I don 't remember what.) My mother suggested that I dress better,
opining: " David, u shoud not go out like that.
What r people going to think ? " I responded:
" I don 't give a damn what anyone
THINKS.
I care what thay
DO, but I don 't care what thay
THINK."
I have since amended that filosofy and wear
custom tailored vested suits. I believe that my mother 'd approve.
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Each did mature sufficiently to make peace with their intellect,
however, and graduated from highschool and college early with
honors and have gone on to make successes of their lives though
none of them 'flaunt' their impressive intellects even to this day.
I am speaking of two guys and one gal.
Well, something that I have known guys to do, for many years,
going back so long I can 't remember, is relating to one another
in humorous n good natured confrontational argument, rife with
jokes and use of logic as an instrument of ego domination --
a human form of rutting, and that
DOES involve
flaunting
on a long term basis, continuing for decades-on-end.
There is no dearth of
THAT; a whole lot of flaunting going on.
Have u observed it among men of the male sex ?
David
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