Ready to cringe and/or punch your computer?

[Dervish]

Fisk said
I've never been able to resolve this. What's with the international rage boner over fedoras? They aren't quite my style, but like... It's a hat...

Most people who wear them tend to be douchey. It's like Tapout shirt wearingbros.

Plus, the user name in that pic.

[KuroTenshi]

Fisk said
I've never been able to resolve this. What's with the international rage boner over fedoras? They aren't quite my style, but like... It's a hat...

It's not fedora's themselves that people rage over, it's the people that tend to wear them because they think it makes them look 'unique and distinguished' that people hate because they tend to be assholes like these

Hank said
It's a simple matter of the genuinely intelligent being able to recognize that there will always be someone smarter than you. Humility is a virtue that comes with self-awareness, which is the true hallmark of intelligence.

This is so true it hurts

[BrobyDDark]

Fisk said
I've never been able to resolve this. What's with the international rage boner over fedoras? They aren't quite my style, but like... It's a hat...

I never understood why people hated the Fedora until I went on SPUFPowered and posted that it was my kind of hat. Apparently those calling themselves 'euphoric' for being atheists and 'intelligent' because they believe what they believe wear fedoras to prove it.

[KuroTenshi]

BrobyDDark said
I never understood why people hated the Fedora until I went on SPUFPowered and posted that it was my kind of hat. Apparently those calling themselves 'euphoric' for being atheists and 'intelligent' because they believe what they believe wear fedoras to prove it.

Kind of sucks because fedora's are a nice style of hat :/

[genghismike]

Hank said
It's a simple matter of the genuinely intelligent being able to recognize that there will always be someone smarter than you. Humility is a virtue that comes with self-awareness, which is the true hallmark of intelligence.

Is this a quote?

If it's not, it needs to be.

-edit-

And I am still a unicorn.

[genghismike]

KuroTenshi said
This is so true it hurts

Kuroro... your set is sexy.

I got a boner now.

A nice colorful unicorn boner.

[KuroTenshi]

genghismike said And I am still a unicorn.

Maggestic as fuck

genghismike said
Kuroro... your set is sexy.I got a boner now. A nice colorful unicorn boner.

Thank you and LOL

[Marik]

What the fuck Sakura? You’re supposed to be in love with Sasuke! Everything is dead to me now.

[BrobyDDark]

Marik said
What the fuck Sakura? You’re supposed to be in love with Sasuke! Everything is dead to me now.

Wut.

[KuroTenshi]

Marik said
What the fuck Sakura? You’re supposed to be in love with Sasuke! Everything is dead to me now.

dat bitch such a ho

[Hank]

genghismike said
Is this a quote? If it's not, it needs to be.

You quoted it, so now it is.

[Kaga]

KuroTenshi said
Kind of sucks because fedora's are a nice style of hat :/

Right? I have lots of genuinely nice friends that wear fedoras. They really do look nice.

One could say... fedorable. :3

[Overwatch]

Kaga said
Right? I have lots of genuinely nice friends that wear fedoras. They really do look nice. One could say... *puts on sunglasses* fedorable. :3
oooooh!!

that's better...

anyway, this thread wants me to burn humanity with a flamethrower.

[Hank]

More cringe! Including bronies and other disgusting human vermin.

[Uskglass]

Hank said
It's a simple matter of the genuinely intelligent being able to recognize that there will always be someone smarter than you. Humility is a virtue that comes with self-awareness, which is the true hallmark of intelligence.

I agree, but I think it's a little presumptuous to imply that none of these sad sacks of shit are "genuinely intelligent." The problem comes from the fact that even if you are an intelligent person, that's a very difficult trait to quantify or demonstrate. And when it's one of the few-to-only positive traits you have, people who are not particularly confident in themselves tend to put the nebulous concept of "intellect" on a pedestal.

There's two ways that can go. The first is that you retreat into yourself and say "At least I'm intelligent" while the world spins by you, but it burns like hell every time you meet someone who is smarter than you, which is always bound to happen eventually, because in your head it means that they're better than you in every conceivable way. That's the path I took for several years early in high school, until I realized that insecurity is bullshit and I'm the fucking man.

The other path is lashing out, deciding that intelligence, specifically your intelligence, is the most important trait and everyone who doesn't agree with you on everything is a fool and vastly inferior to you. Case in point, the fine gentlemen you see in this thread.

[Dervish]

Ladies and gentleman, I give you Dr. Uskglass Freud.

[Uskglass]

Dervish said
Ladies and gentleman, I give you Dr. Uskglass Freud.

I have a reputation to build back up.

[Hank]

Uskglass said The other path is lashing out, deciding that intelligence, specifically your intelligence, is the most important trait and everyone who doesn't agree with you on everything is a fool and vastly inferior to you. Case in point, the fine gentlemen you see in this thread.

I treat that as a sign that their intellect is not as impressive as they perceive it to be. Like I said, self-awareness is an essential quantifier for intelligence. How do we measure sapience in other species? The mirror test. Self-awareness allows one to recognize their individuality and creates the ability to perceive other creatures as separate entities and accurately compare them to oneself, or assume their viewpoint. It is the force that drives empathy, the greatest achievement in human psychological evolutionary development. It is also necessary to accurately judge yourself, like the magpie who recognizes that the bird in the mirror is a reflection of itself, and looks down at its own chest to see the dot that has been painted on it, observed in the mirror.

Being able to create a mirror for your own personality and judging yourself, your capabilities, and your intelligence accurately, and having enough awareness and empathy to open yourself to input from other individuals (and being able to judge that accurately), is the most resonating characteristic of a highly intelligent human. People like these militant atheists from the fedora brigade, who incessantly bash conservative Christians and insult their intelligence, have not tried to understand the Christian viewpoint. Making claims like "because I am enlightened by my own intelligence" shows a lack of self-awareness, since it is not their own intelligence that has allowed them to rationalize the non-existence of God or whatever, but the intelligence of prominent scientists and atheists before them. Humility and pride are both virtues but someone like that possesses neither and is guilty of hubris. By bashing the Christians and subjecting them to bigotry, they show that they also lack the empathy and awareness in others to engage in dialogue, making them just as guilty of being dogmatic and close-minded, which is exactly what they accuse the religious of.

They could very well be smart, academically gifted, capable of powerful abstract reasoning or any other number of savant skills, but the essential characteristic of human intelligence, that which has made us a pioneering species, is weak in them.

[Munk]

Contributing to the cringefest.

Bit of a feminist

An athiest

The baddest of boys

This one isn

[KuroTenshi]

Hank said
I treat that as a sign that their intellect is not as impressive as they perceive it to be. Like I said, self-awareness is an essential quantifier for intelligence. How do we measure sapience in other species? The mirror test. Self-awareness allows one to recognize their individuality and creates the ability to perceive other creatures as separate entities and accurately compare them to oneself, or assume their viewpoint. It is the force that drives empathy, the greatest achievement in human psychological evolutionary development. It is also necessary to accurately judge yourself, like the magpie who recognizes that the bird in the mirror is a reflection of itself, and looks down at its own chest to see the dot that has been painted on it, observed in the mirror. Being able to create a mirror for your own personality and judging yourself, your capabilities, and your intelligence accurately, and having enough awareness and empathy to open yourself to input from other individuals (and being able to judge accurately), is the most resonating characteristic of a highly intelligent human. People like these militant atheists from the fedora brigade, who incessantly bash conservative Christians and insult their intelligence, have not tried to understand the Christian viewpoint. Making claims like "because I am enlightened by my own intelligence" shows a lack of self-awareness, since it is not their own intelligence that has allowed them to rationalize the non-existence of God or whatever, but the intelligence of prominent scientists and atheists before them. Humility and pride are both virtues but someone like that possesses neither and is guilty of hubris. By bashing the Christians and subjecting them to bigotry, they show that they also lack the empathy and awareness in others to engage in dialogue, making them just as guilty of being dogmatic and close-minded, which is exactly what they accuse the religious of. They could very well be smart, academically gifted, capable of powerful abstract reasoning or any other number of savant skills, but the essential characteristic of human intelligence, that which has made us a pioneering species, is weak in them.

very well said