Bodhisattva

"is a term people use to describe people who are smarter than they are only by a degree small enough that the person using the word can understand that the "genius" is smarter. You take it any further than that, and he will call him a moron, instead."


hmmm do we...

perhaps in some way some variation thereof

but its my delusion that the more intelligent dogs and cats i've had, thought me something like magical, opening doors turning on lights, there is something like 'marvel' in their perception of the human with the hands and the technology, atleast for me, a doctor doolittle perhaps

perhaps its such a steep cliff with humans, that the smartest dog is much closer to the dumbest human, than the dumbest human is to the smartest human, unlikely, or rather its some complexity, like our preconceived notion of our individual selves as 'something smart', or the genetically ingrained insistence on 'thinking for ourselves' that we all have in varying degrees and ways, atleast beyond a domesticated canine

humans have undeniably been historically quick to anger at many revolutionary concepts, disregarding them with passion, but people have done the same with concepts that actually WERE 'moronic'


There are lots of words for marveling at the many many marvelous things

i don't see a reason to degrade the word genius, rather than redefine the word as the opposite of what it means, why dont you just claim genius doesn't exist, if that's your opinion

i created this thread because 'genius' is a word with many definitions, none of which are 'everyday little things that a chimp or retarded person can be trained to do'

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