Intelligence VS Beauty

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From reading other people's posts and in life in general, I always hear stuff like: oh she's just rich cause she's beautiful while "insert name here" is rich because he's intelligent and worked hard for his place.

Well, "jacks" intelligence is "given" to him just like beauty is given to "julia".

Jack stayed up late, finished college and so on, julia starves herself to look good, doesnt have time to settle down etc...etc...

Why do people always think that the intelligent person worked harder or did something out of the ordinary? while the beautiful person they say "oh h/she was born with it", well he didnt create his intelligence, he developed it?? well so did h/she they watch what they eat, get surgery, use products etc...

Why does society view those people as better or in a higher place, even though the latter are the ones they are most facisnated by??:rolleyes:

You humans are damn wierd:biggrin1:
 

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EnglishGentleman said:
As a student whose concerns include the portrayal of the genders within the media, I would assume that remit includes the differing standards of beauty throughout history, and between cultures we see around us today.

Were we to have conducted this debate merely 60 years ago, the thin, toned look we admire in Western culture today would have been seen as emaciated and unhealthy. Go back a further 200 years and the ideal of beauty was a woman with "healthy" fat layers on her bones.

Beauty is a totally subjective opinion, influenced by culture and peer association. It is proven that one's own tastes and definition of what is physically beautiful are as much determined by our evaluation of a potential mate's immune responses as by their look, deportment or even smell.

The wheel works whether you like it or not. You enjoy the use of your computer even if you don't find it attractive. The words of luminaries such as Gandhi or Martin Luther King speak to whole generations and their descendents even if you don't like their cadence. Those observations are objective.

By these inalienable criteria and countless others, whilst beauty may be an initial sexual attractant, the power of reasoning and invention has truly made the world a better, more comfortable and more easily understood place. Beauty, at best, has helped make babies.
beauty is not purely subjective. If it were, there would be no difference in price between an ugly and a beautiful house, in an ugly or beautiful neighborhood. The fact that beautiful things, places & people are hard to get is proof that we experience them in common, and therefore that our experiences are not purely subjective fantasies.

There are some places in the world that are so beautiful everyone agrees they are beautiful, like those vistas along the coast by Carmel CA. Experiencing beauty like that is not purely subjective. Some rugs, paintings, houses, objects etc are incredibly expensive precisely because large numbers of people experience their beauty, and want to experience that all the time. All experiences have a subjective component, it is true, because we are all individuals. But that does not mean that all experiences are "purely subjective" schizophrenic fantasies. People who are insane, imbeciles, or immature can't tell the difference between fantasies (which are purely subjective) and reality (which is experienced in common).

But because beauty involves a lot of complexity that is hard to articulate, people are fond of dismissing the whole thing as "subjective."

Hope this helps you sleep more soundly and perhaps more objectively tonight.
 
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sounds rather subjective to me. i would suppose it all depends on the person you're talking to and how they perceive people
 

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Beauty is fickle. It comes and goes very easy. When age hits you like a piano dropped on the head, what will you have left? It doesn't give you the ability to make a lasting contribution to society. All you've got left is your "bubble-gum" beauty pageant personality.

Intelligence is really several different things including knowledge, raw talent, creativity, and logical reasoning. Knowledge alone is nearly as worthless as beauty. What good does it do me to memorize a set of encyclopedias, the dictionary, and the thesaurus if I already own those books? It doesn't do a damn thing for me or anyone else. The ability to learn gives us a way to improve ourselves and our environment. The ability to create art, music, or great literary and philosophical works adds cultural value to society. A new invention can save lives and a great piece of computer software can make life just a little more bearable. That's why "intelligence" is more important to the human race. It makes our existence better.
 

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True physical beauty requires nothing more than soap, water and a comb. How much work is that?

Intelligence is NOT a given, only the potential to BE intelligent if you as an individual choose to apply it.

Beauty changes nothing, intellect, artistry and invention change the entire world.
 

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You make me think of the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason--and remember them with fondness. You homo rationalis.
 

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I think intelligence is beautiful. If i see someone hot, and they say something ignorant or stupid, they aren't so hot to me anymore.

Humans is incredible strange though
 

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sundayssad said:
I think intelligence is beautiful. If i see someone hot, and they say something ignorant or stupid, they aren't so hot to me anymore.

i can't express how much i agree


*is it because i'm not intelligent?*