| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 6/28/2007 4:50:01 PM | I haven't read the replies yet, pardon if I am only redundant. I just anted to answere it fresh.
What is truth? Truth may be only as much as one knows.
I cannot begin to imagine being any different. I just want my cake and eat it too.
So ways to be intelligent and happy are...
I enjoy blissful ignorance when it comes to religion.
I choose blissful ignorance when someone verbally jabs at me. (Like it went right over my head) So many times our interpretation of truth is just that. So I do opt for blissfull ignorance.
So a smart person is happier by shutting down useless concerns/reactions.
And therefor using the energy in a more constructive/interesting manner.
I would never trade my intellect, but find away to put it to use to increase my happiness quotient. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/1/2007 8:00:02 PM | | I noticed a trend among my friends in the many years we've known each other. The incredibly smart ones, (one is MENSA certified) / creative ones, suffer with severe depression. My other friends who are more "average" are the ones that really love life and are full of energy and fun to be around. It was something I noticed a long time ago and always wondered if there was a correlation. I'd love to know if any studies have been done. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/1/2007 11:32:32 PM | | I don't really think intelligence is the factor. I think it's peoples expectations that make them either happy or unhappy. I spent a lot of time depressed about life, the world, my relationships. I wondered if maybe I'd be happier if I could have remained ignorant of it all. But i realized that I'd have to be brain dead to remain ignorant of it all. I think it's better to be intelligent enough to see past all the bullshit than to live life in a fog of uncertainty. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/3/2007 6:09:52 AM | I choose to be happy. When Im happy everyone around me bubbles over....for the most part.
I do not know if being happy pushes my intelligence level way down but I'll share this odd behavior of mine....but at my age, accepting is more warming then changing.
When my sister was killed and dumped alongside a lonely highway......I suddeny realized what death was as she lie on life support for 3 day....reality awoke inside me quite swiftly.
A year later when my little brother passed on......I had to leave the church building, wander around the so no one would hear me burst out laughing.....an uncontroably laugh.....I knew people would take it the *wrong* way.....but my brother and I were extremely close.
For the most part it seems that every year after that.....a newly extreme tradegdy would hit......and again I laughed....and laughed.....and laughed.
I have come to realize over the years that......I choose laughter and happiness.....to warm over my pain and suffering. My sons have asked my timelessly "Please mom, can you just be serious one time....just once mom....please?"
The answer of course is.....I am serious......I just also happen to choose laughter and giggles....and happiness to overwelm me always
Intelligence? PHOOOOEEEEYYYY.....Id much rather shed some light on others....life is way too short to be torn down so easily.......but then.....those who know me......also know that when I laugh the hardest.....is when Im hurting the most  | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/3/2007 2:03:50 PM | Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Being intelligent and even being knowledgable has little to do with knowing you have a predisposition for an illness.
I don't think intelligence or knowledge really makes people unhappy.
You don't have to see everything through rose-colored glasses to be happy. The thing is to see things the way they are and be happy with whatever is there. Circumstances are more or less neutral. Unless I'm being tortured or something, there's no reason to be fundamentally unhappy, even if there are things that happen to make you sad sometimes.
One thing about trying to achieve a very high intellectual level, especially these days when there is so much to learn is that you never know enough, and you're never good enough, no matter how hard you work at it. Most people would be very shocked if they knew how much you have to know in order to be a mathematician or physicist these days. You might laugh if you saw how long the list of subjects is (many of these subjects are monstrous subjects, too--algebraic topology, bad news). Sometimes even Stephen Hawking and Ed Witten aren't good enough. String theory might be a dead end. It's like Newton said. Even with all he acheived, he felt like a boy on the shore now and then finding a prettier pebble than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before him. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/6/2007 9:45:37 PM | The village idiot is usually happy. So there!
Better dumb and happy than smart and unhappy.
But better unhappy and smart than dumb and unhappy!
IMDO, of course! | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/6/2007 10:16:40 PM | Given a choice, would most people choose to be highly intelligent and aware of the true nature of things, or would they rather be ignorant and happy?
I'd rather take a different route... I'd choose to be highly intelligent and keep an open mind about the nature of things... That would make me happy...
Is the quest for "truth" worth sacrificing the possibility of personal happiness? Or is the search for "truth" something that may either be unattainable, or not worth pursuing in some instances due to the emotional cost?
Again, it is the ability to question and search for the truth(even though it may be unattainable), that makes it a positive experience for me all around... I enjoy the search!
How correlated is intelligence with happiness? Are those with a clear view of reality at a disadvantage in terms of achieving personal fulfillment and happiness?
I think it depends on whether or not you're happy with what you think you know... And for the second part, I don't think so... I believe those with a clear view on reality would see that the personal fulfillment and happiness of all is beneficial to the whole of humanity.... But of course, I'm biased that way...
How many would trade some portion of their intellect if they knew it would make them happier? How many wish they could sometimes?
I'm happy with the way my intellect is evolving... I know I used to want to give up all emotion... Not anymore tho... I can accept myself for who I am...
The thing with ignorance is you have to keep from questioning... Once the first question is asked, it's over... Questions beget questions... The big "Why" never stops and unless you can have fun with it and remember we're in a hall of mirrors, you can easily get lost in one of the infinate reflections of your true self... I think that's why meditation is so beneficial to me... It puts the "Why" on pause so I can get back and relate to my true self...Just my honest opinion... | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/7/2007 2:02:53 AM | I think the happiest intelligent people are the ones who have mastered the ability to relate to their world harmoniously. Everything can be reduced to relating to something or someone. And It is clear that the most successful people in different fields have learned to relate with their subject intimately. Unfortunately this success doesn't equate to happiness. Whether they are relating to numbers or people or the world at large and its survival. Some people can be so intelligent with one thing while complete dolts with others.
I'm living the happiest time of my life right now and some times it feels as though i've found the secret to life. Then i realize just how subjective that truth really is. The most important intelligence or one that would make everyone happy in my opinion is the ability to relate in a Loving way, and have that fully actualized in the world.
Finding expression for our own true nature is intelligence beyond knowledge of any single thing. It supports the whole, nurtures the whole and challenges the whole for growth in an empowering way. There are those who have learned to make billions of dollars while still being able to watch those go without even the basic needs for survival. There are those who have so much compassion yet no ability to have it actualized through limitations imposed by lack of knowledge in dealing with those who don't understand the importance of the work they do yet have the power to see it through. I see everything as little fragmented pieces of the whole that needs harmony bring it all together. True intelligence sees the relationships between things and has the ability to bring it together for the betterment of all involved.
Self actualized people are happy and so are those on a path of the same. So intelligence needs to be a part of the journey towards this not only for ones self but for the whole. We can not say we are evolved if some of our species suffer greatly from that which we call progress. Some of the seemingly greatest acts of compassion can be self serving and mean nothing to the person one thinks there helping. Intelligence is knowing the difference and doing the right thing that supports the whole.
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 7/7/2007 2:47:23 PM | Ignorance is bliss, because information is usually presented with some facts missing.
1) Consider a news headline: it might be about an actress that used to be a man.
Until you read the full article, you can be very confused by this.
You might have been attracted to her, and now worry that you're secretly a homosexual, when you were sure that you were straight.
You might have idolised her, but now worry that a lot of the things you admired about her could be seen as negative qualities in light of this information.
Only once you read the full article, that really if was her friend who used to be a man, and people accused the actress of being one also, that you understand the truth.
2) Consider an illiterate person who learns to read.
He now can see where he is not supposed to drive. He reads about lots of things that he is NOT allowed to do. Will he be arrested for these things, either for what he did in the past, or what he might do in the future?
He has to change his way of thinking to accommodate the new information.
This is the problem with learning something: knowledge is not enough. Each piece of knowledge we acquire affects something else. We call that consequences. Suddenly, we don't know how to deal with life, so we are confused. Only when we can understand the consequences of this new knowledge, and how our lives can accommodate them, will we be at peace again.
The forums are full of this: people who find their partners have a text from a woman, and they never mentioned her, people who find their partner has a profile on a dating site. All of this is confusing until we get the full facts.
Ignorance is NOT bliss: ignorance is like the child who is unaware that fire can burn him/her. Feels good to know you can put your hand anywhere. Makes you start to worry about things when you find out you can get hurt. You only stop worrying when you realise that just because some things hurt, doesn't mean everything has to, and there are a lot of things in the world that don't hurt.
This is why people with mental illness tend to be much smarter than healthy people. More information to process and to figure out what the consequences are.
Same reason as why things get harder as you get older, like dating. More information to process. More consequences, so more time needed to figure out how to navigate the seas of life safely.
A famous philosopher once said that there is no effort man will not make to avoid the effort of thinking. This is why.
So, yes, most people would rather live in blissful ignorance, just like most children would rather not know that they can be burned by fire.
But once they understand that knowledge and how to use it to their benefit, to avoid danger and to be happier with their lives, no-one would be without such knowledge.
It's the stage in-between that we all don't like. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/8/2007 7:13:36 AM | Oh boy!!! Rummaging around in Pandoras box are we? I'd rather not be the ostrich with my head in the sand hoping of all hopes that lion ain't gunna get me. There are some situations where it can be bliss as....the day I'm going to die...I don't want to know. I prefer to remain ignorant to that piece of information. Its all relative.
I don't believe ignorant people are any happier or sadder than the higher IQ group. Life deals us all a personalized stack of cards we journey with. Who's to say a person who is more knowledgable is more happier than someone who has more functional grey matter. I've seen happy and sad people on both side of the spectrum. Emotion, empathy and sensativity has no IQ barrier.
What gets me is people who have the capacity to learn, who have some intelligence; choose not to open their eyes and mind to other peoples points of view or lessons learned and make conclusions based on presumptions or heresay. We grow spiritually and mentally by learning and experiencing new challenges we take heart to tackle. It makes us better and stronger people. We progress.
The difference between a ignorant man and a wise man is....the ignornat man learns by his own mistakes...the wise man by other peoples mistakes.
Is ignorance really bliss? Nah....not when you see intelligence wasted with potential lost, the opportunity missed and the learning ignored. I imagine the ignorant is bliss people would miss that point.
Best to all. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/8/2007 7:00:22 PM | You now sucked the joy out of life. Can you imagine? You know and understand everything. Death? You don't fear it, you know whats on the other side (or so you place trust in your theory and thats as good as knowing for you). That beautiful sunset? It's lost it's charm now that you know exactly how it works and why.
Part of what makes life so amazing is the constant learning experience. Being challenged, enjoying things, taking interests. If you understand everything, if there are no challenges, if you needn't spend more than 10 seconds before you become a master at something; then where is the joy? You'll spend you life in solitude sitting in your room continuously feeding your hungry mind until it all ends.
I don't fully agree with that. I think the challenges would just become much greater more difficult ones. It's like what einstein once said about math how his troubles in it were more greater than everyone elses. I think the real problem would be that once one is born at an IQ of 190 would be his inability to fit with the rest of the people in his/her world. No one would see eye to eye with a person of that intelligence. A lot of the things we enjoy would seem pointless or stupid, not only that but they probably would have little patience for someone of a lower IQ. Those are probably the real issues in terms of IQ level hindering enjoyment of life.
I'd rather be average. Not dumb as a post, but not a genius. Got to study to learn, practice to become better.
There is some hard evidence that the smarter you are, the more negatives you possess.
It's a balance theory. If you're a genius, chances are you're going to have some pretty serious demons. Take a look at Stephen Hawking. His IQ is ENORMOUS. He spews forth Time Theories and Creation theories like kindergarten math. He eats Advanced Quantum Physics for breakfast.
But he can't move.
All that intelligence, all that energy is in his incredibly powerful brain. None is left over for his body. I've checked this out myself, and I know plenty of people who have high IQ's that suffer from certain things. One fella I know has an IQ of 150. He knows math and physics (the language of the universe) easily. Learns it without a problem. But when it comes to learning english, he fails HARD. Has many issues reading and writing. His social interaction abilities have also taken some hits. But he has a glorious mind for math.
So being the jack of all trades is definitely the best route, I find.
Well with your freind with the IQ of a 150 it's very possible that he's just Autistic. He's actually the same level of intelligence as everyone else just that it goes more towards mathematics than anything else. I wouldn't say thats being a genius as it's being gifted in only one area to a great extreme. Most average people if trained well could probably specialize in something like that but still have apitude in a lot of other areas.
The thing is none of us can really be a jack of all trades we all need to specialize in something. The real problem is that we don't really tend to have a system that helps people specialize in a carreer from a young age when it would be best for them to master something. At least in my opinion. Anyways our system just seems to get the gifted people who usually might have a defecit somewhere else just because they seem to pick up a particular subject quicker than others.
I mean I personally beleive that Einstein was actually a rather normal man and that his IQ didn't have much to do with his success in physics. I think it was more the fact that he became so fascinated with physics that he specialized in it and chose to ignore everything else. He was notorious for ignoring his other classes in school and reading his physics books instead. Oh and he was a huge success with the ladies even though he was a mathematical genuis even though he wasn't particularily well groomed or dressed.
So that really shows that one can be specialized in an area and still be successful in social situations. Einstein just knew what he wanted to care about. It's a lot different from someone who might be autistic and is great at math or music but has a problem socializing and connecting with other humans.
Also has anyone else realized that theres a stigma of the scientist being the person that dosen't have a valuable social life and is therefore not cool etc.
It's weird because at one time Scientists were the celebritys of their day and only gentlemen from rich familys could study to become scientists. I think we don't have an educational system that teaches people to specialize in a trade anymore. So average people don't build up a great knowledge of science and we just leave it to the people who are greatly above average and manage to pick it up in a shorter amount of time. I mean theres even a story of a guy who had no education but was so passionate about science that he ended up becoming a scientist and learning about the electromagnetic fields. Thing is he was driven to keep reading and learning. It was his passion that made him become great at it.
I think intelligence dosen't always have everything to do with being good at something. I mean you could be more intelligent than other people but because nothing is a challenge for you or a competition it could be easy to rest on your laurels. While the person that had to fight to get to that point might still keep practicing themselves hard to get better and better at it.
Einstein's true success I think came not so much from IQ level as it did a passion for physics in general. He could have been gifted I guess but that can only go so far as to bring someone to solving things.
Thats why I wish our society made less fun of people that have obsessive interests. It's usually an obsession with something that makes people specialize in something better than others. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/9/2007 6:48:08 PM | Ignorance is not true happiness, it's merely what it is - ignorance. There is no "satisfaction" in not knowing. Ignoring life is not happiness, it is ignorance. Bliss derives from understanding, not assuming, not ignoring. Those who may be less then "intelligent" may find happiness in what they do know but they live in a delusional state when living with ignorance. They "depend" on their delusion to make them happy. Dependence is not a true source of happiness.
My former understanding of "life" lead to one of unhappiness. I felt as if no one could see what I saw - what "was" (or "is"). I felt very alone, even in the biggest crowds. I had no one to teach me what life actually "is," they just taught me things to do in it. This was "ignorance," this was "not knowing." Ignorance is not "stupidity" but rather simply "not knowing." It was through understanding that I found something to finally smile at. The truth was, we are ALL alone.
As far as intelligence goes, if one person can learn it, anyone can - it really depends on their focus and willingness. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/10/2007 12:47:47 PM | this is a great topic ,well bliss may be ignorance but i feel the more you know the less you fear so i think the fear thing might cost you your life so it might be better off unhappy and alive than dead...just athought  | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/13/2007 4:17:18 PM | I might be repeating some of what I said earlier on here but I don't get the higher IQ attributed to more misery thing.
I think it's a big mistake. The truth is more that we probably pressure those that are a bit more smarter to do more. For example, if a child is gifted we send him to a special school. While I do think this is neccessary to let the kids abilitys bud. Especially because I feel how the brain is used is more important than how good it is at learning. At the same time we could be pressuring these people to keep up at a certain standard that they may not be able to hold.
Im guessing the problem is adaptability with peers. If you are put in a special school and expected to do a lot of studying it might be harder to connect with people of the same age in the general population. On the upside though I figure people who are gifted can develop more meaningful relationships with adults. I remember reading about a mathmatician who did lots of math problems with his father and had a very meaningful relationship with him. He said that the closer relationships with adults helped him not miss the lowered amounts of freinships with people his own age as a result of the time he spent in his education.
It really makes me think, especially because of my experience in school. If your a more quiet inquisitive child and a deep thinker you can have trouble adapting to the rest of the social circle. You might not really be any more intelligent than anyone else but you might just be paying attention to completly different things. Kids who aren't confrontational, aren't good at sports but may be really good at reading, writing and mathematics may benefit more from being in the surrounding of adult peers. Especially if the child is more emotionally sensitive. Being around well educated adults who are a postive influence, tolerant, patient, more mature maybe be more beneficial to specific kids. After my own experiences as a child I wasn't particularily gifted but I do think I would have benefited better from a home schooled enviroment, tutors and then going to college or university afterwards.
The social scene in schools is not rewarding to all kids and some times demotes the importance of learning and education which is really sad. The highschool I went to kids really frowned on studying and I truly wish I had not gone to that school. I wasn't a book worm but I was a shy, withdrawn, polite kid who was really good at spelling but absolutely sucked at grammer and mathematics. I had good help from my mother in learning how to do school work that other kids might not have had and it was assumed I was some "brainer" or "nerd". Yet my marks were just as bad as anyone elses since I was slow at figuring out work but good at answering questions.
Whats worse is I've always had bad hand eye co-ordination I just can't play sports if life depended on it. Now these problems are proving to make my unionized labor job really difficult for me because Im having trouble adapting to some of the demands. So being around kids my age was more like a punishment than a boon to me. It actually made me more withdrawn, anxious and antisocial. I sometimes wish my parents could have homeschooled me and probably got tutors to prepare me for colleges. I think it's just healthy relationships with people that are important. Age is not always important in that factor. Some kids might get neutered in a open enviroment which may be healthy and rewarding to an average kid. So kids with defecits or gifts may truly suffer in the normal school setting.
Not only this but do we really wan't gifted children to get introduced to the vices of drugs and alcohol which seem prevalent in todays youth culture (not neccessarily though). I mean we shouldn't put pressure on gifted children, or put high expectations on them, they deserve control over their lives and choices. Yet I still would think it would be a travesty to get kids like this to get involved with the wrong people. Considering this personally, I would rather have my kids be around healthy minded, calm, patient, decent hard working adults than around younger people.
As they get older and things like short term memory start to decline I wonder if someone with a really high intellect may get more frusterated by aging then a normal person. Seeing that they can't do things as good as they used to and being used to not having to put much effort into learning something like other people.
Guess theres lots of issues to consider. | |
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| Ignorance is bliss
Posted: 8/13/2007 4:45:25 PM | Not knowing about the rainforests is one end of the scale, pure ignorance. As is not knowing about Iraq , Israel or Ganistan. what's there to bother with.?.
Average Joe says global warming BAD, innocents killed BAD, Opium BAD, but hey what can we do?
when you feel you understand why amongst other things ;
the rainforests are burning,the third world corrupted,iraq invaded, can put yourself in someone elses shoes and cry for their children- then ignorance is bliss | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 8/13/2007 5:20:12 PM |
That beautiful sunset? It's lost it's charm now that you know exactly how it works and why.
Just because you understand something does not make it less beautiful. I thoroughly understand many things: sunsets, stars, cloud patterns, (some) people. I find that I perceive the things I fully understand even more beautiful and fascinating than those I don't.
For example, I find nature (fully explainable and understandable) to be more beautiful than nearly all art (which is largely simply arbitrary depending on the artist's state of mind). | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 9/2/2007 9:04:08 AM | Just because you understand something does not make it less beautiful. I thoroughly understand many things: sunsets, stars, cloud patterns, (some) people. I find that I perceive the things I fully understand even more beautiful and fascinating than those I don't.
For example, I find nature (fully explainable and understandable) to be more beautiful than nearly all art (which is largely simply arbitrary depending on the artist's state of mind).
Exactly, love is a chemical reaction. Feelings of romance are like an addiction to heroin. It dosen't take away the value or meaning the experience falling in love can have on two individuals. (Nevermind the fact that without those chemicals we probably wouldn't fall in love and have familys. People would probably still have sex though but wouldn't able to love one another or tolerate each other for long. At least thats my personal supposition.)
It's kind of like what Frederick Nietsczhe said about calculating music scientifically. He said that what would be garnered from it that is music absolutely nothing, well something like that but in his own words. Afterall listening to music and calculating music scientifically are two different things.
You can calculate music scientifically but still enjoy listening to it. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 9/2/2007 6:53:30 PM | IQ is raw computing power. Who wouldn't want the fastest, most capable computer?
EQ is emotional intelligence. The higher the EQ, the more personally responsible you are for your own life. High EQ people feel in control and full of joy. Lesser emotionally intelligent people want to dodge all responsibility and choose to stay at a low EQ level.
Do you want to be a dog wagging its tail or do you want to be a person struggling in life? Isn't happiness secondary to having higher limits of capability? | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 9/9/2007 10:41:55 AM | you can be smart and happy because if you are smart you will be able to smell out the stupid people and that will cause you less grief ,if you are not smart you will be taken advantage of ,,,,i mean how many smart people do you know who get screwed over..not many.becasue they know when a dumba$$ is coming along ,so the less crap you take from idiots the better ,you can have yur cake and eat it you just got to figure out how...it is only impossible if you cannot believe in yourself enough         | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 10/20/2007 4:05:53 AM | "Knowledge is power.
~~~ Power is freedom.
~~~ Power corrupts.
Happiness is a choice.
Integrity is a choice."
knowledge never was power.
wisdom fills that better. knowledge is raw information. wisdom tells you what it means/what purposes it can fulfill.
for instance- someone can learn all this seemingly useless stuff in college algebra. just pattern information.
with a little wisdom, one understands how this information is used.
i'm finding out that iso on film is a non-linear function- there is a sweet spot.
light disperses in a non-linear manner (depending on the type of light/how it's propigated, of course)
if i figure out the ratio of the focal length of the lense, divide it by the diameter of the hole, i can get my f-stop number, which will tell me how much light is passing through to the film, from there i can guess how much light is getting to the film.
comparing the shutter speed(how much), apeture hole(how much at once), and film sensitiviy, i get exposure.
i waste lots less film, save more money and time, and am happier with the result
but, first i had the raw knowledge. bunch of patterns, abstracted numbers. it didn't inherintly "mean" anything. a tool is only as good as the wielder.
ignorance would involve niether of these. ignorance is oblivion (someone else said this, i'm not sure who). | |
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Posted: 10/20/2007 12:32:28 PM | no such thing as truth?
please explain.
that would mean that there is no truth to your statement, for it does not exist.
intelligence? the best approximization i can give it is givng fitting associations, combinations of ideas/concepts/abstractions, et cetera. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 10/20/2007 12:49:31 PM | most people are as smart or as happy as they choose to be
to quote "A man is what he thinks about all day long." Ralph Waldo Emerson. | |
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| Ignorance as bliss? Smart vs happy?
Posted: 10/20/2007 3:40:10 PM | OP, it seems like you're treating intelligence and happiness as mutually exclusive.
Happiness comes not from what you do or do not know.... but how you choose to interpret it. A guy can choose to view a woman rejecting him as a horrible, embarrassing thing. Or he can choose to interpret it as a learning experience, that makes him happy.
If I knew I were to die on my 50th birthday, I could get all depressed about what a short life I'd have and wallow in self-pity....
or I could use it to my advantage, and go skydiving, bungee jumping, skullf*ck D*ck Cheney til he pukes, lay a brick on Dr. Phil's living room floor, go ass-to-mouth on Martha Stweart (I bet she's as dirty as it gets), become a rally car driver and porno star, and move to a 3rd world country for tons of unprotected sex with beautiful locals, and pass any communicable diseases that can't kill me that I pick up to Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and the Olsen twins. Oh, and max out all my f*ckin credit cards and any other credit some financial institution is stupid enough to give me. Pass the crack pipe. 
Seriously, though. In my experience, the search for truth is it's own reward.
The truths you pick up along the way are really fantastic pieces of icing on the cake. | |
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