The root of my angst

**Pinner** · 06-21-2005, 08:48 AM

http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_2813798

**jimmy page** · 06-21-2005, 09:18 AM

paging Ogre

**Tippster** · 06-21-2005, 12:20 PM

Triple Nine and Mensa are so masturbatory. Many (if not most) truly smart people don't even bother, since they're not egomaniacs that need an elitist group to validate their existence.

**runethechamp** · 06-21-2005, 12:44 PM

I did the mensa test in Norway and went to one of their meetings but after 20 minutes I was tired of listening to the nerds complaining about how they were too smart to talk to "normal" people so I never went there again. And I have no problem admitting that I can be a nerd/dork sometimes myself

**Spats** · 06-21-2005, 02:30 PM

Actually, I find extremely brilliant people to be really fun.

The worst is what one of my friends called "120 IQ syndrome". These people are, in fact, smarter than most people, but they think that means they're smarter than everybody. They are totally insufferable.

The men are libertarians or in the SCA, and are often shift managers at Radio Shack or Electronics Boutique. They are really into Star Trek and Babylon 5. The women have low-level desk jobs at any big cubicle farm, and look down on anyone who doesn't pretend to enjoy depressing English literature like Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, etc.

**iceman** · 06-21-2005, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Spats

Actually, I find extremely brilliant people to be really fun.

The worst is what one of my friends called "120 IQ syndrome". These people are, in fact, smarter than most people, but they think that means they're smarter than everybody. They are totally insufferable.

The men are libertarians or in the SCA, and are often shift managers at Radio Shack or Electronics Boutique. They are really into Star Trek and Babylon 5. The women have low-level desk jobs at any big cubicle farm, and look down on anyone who doesn't pretend to enjoy depressing English literature like Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, etc.

What a bunch of insufferable bullshit on their part and on yours, Spats. Fucking horrible all the way around.

**Out_to_lunch** · 06-21-2005, 08:56 PM

ehh...I could write a symphony, and would surley give it a better name than "Overature in D minor"

**dipstik** · 06-21-2005, 09:16 PM

apparently not smart enough to keep up a website: www.prometheus.org

**iceman** · 06-21-2005, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by dipstik

apparently not smart enough to keep up a website: www.prometheus.org

um, it says in the article it's www.prometheussociety.org

**dipstik** · 06-21-2005, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

um, it says in the article it's www.prometheussociety.org

my bad, I got the link from this part of the article:

"Some high-IQers belong to as many as 10 or 20 such groups, ranging from the International High IQ Society (highiqsociety.org), which accepts individuals with IQ scores in the top 5 percent, or 1 out of 20, to the Prometheus Society (prometheus.org), which takes one out of 30,000 and has only about 100 members worldwide."

Guess I didn't pass the test.

**Stu Gotz** · 06-22-2005, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Out_to_lunch

ehh...I could write a symphony, and would surley give it a better name than "Overature in D minor"

Too true. I think "Mother, Juggs & Speed" would be a nice title for a symphony. Or maybe "Hot Chicks, Talking Animals and Copious Amounts of Weed."

**Laps** · 06-22-2005, 05:37 AM

I would much sooner listen to symphony with either one of those titles. What the hell is an "Overture" anyway?

**Out_to_lunch** · 06-22-2005, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Laps

I would much sooner listen to symphony with either one of those titles. What the hell is an "Overture" anyway?

If you really want to know.
Generally an overature is an oppening to something like an opera. It kind of sets the tone for the rest of the piece. In my experience(not a whole lot, but some) a true overature doesnt have THAT much depth to it (yes there are exceptions e.g. Overature to Don Giovani) But usually they sort of in a way go over the music to be had over the entire piece. Kind of like reading the table of contents in a book.

Now people like this guy sometimes just write things called overatures and they are soley intended for performance with nothing else. So obviously they have a little more work to do in making it interesting.

Serious composers (as in thats their job) nowadays dont really write "overatures" much anymore due to the lack of operas being writen and actually performed.

**truth** · 06-22-2005, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Tippster

Triple Nine and Mensa are so masturbatory. Many (if not most) truly smart people don't even bother, since they're not egomaniacs that need an elitist group to validate their existence.

That's been my approach. Instead I try to play a triple 2 person on the interweb.

**snowsprite** · 06-22-2005, 10:34 AM

Thank God I'm stupid and I don't have to worry about anything.

Sprite

**Laps** · 06-22-2005, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Out_to_lunch

Serious composers (as in thats their job) nowadays dont really write "overatures" much anymore due to the lack of operas being writen and actually performed.

So him writing an overture is like someone writing Cliff notes for a novel, instead of writing the whole novel? That's not very impressive, especially for a Genius.

**Pinner** · 06-22-2005, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Laps

So him writing an overture is like someone writing Cliff notes for a novel, instead of writing the whole novel? That's not very impressive, especially for a Genius.

Are you the genius who is unimpressed, or are you just generalizing about the inferiority of geniuses, you know... in general?

**Out_to_lunch** · 06-22-2005, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by Laps

So him writing an overture is like someone writing Cliff notes for a novel, instead of writing the whole novel? That's not very impressive, especially for a Genius.

Ha, for a genius I would have expected more too. But its not quite the same as writing Cliff notes, its a bit more than that, but not a symphony. Basically the "overature" in a classical sense is "outdated" for lack of a better word.

Keep in mind though that not having heard his piece or read the score, I have no clue at all what the piece is like. It could be pretty good.

**Laps** · 06-22-2005, 12:22 PM

I ain't no genius...I am sure what he wrote is a hell of a lot better than anything I could compose.....I couldn't even play the recorder in 2nd grade.

**Tippster** · 06-22-2005, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by truth

That's been my approach. Instead I try to play a triple 2 person on the interweb.

...which any sane man would find perfectly reasonable. Where the fuck have you been?

**Steven S. Dallas** · 06-22-2005, 02:14 PM

What's so smart about having your liver pecked out by an eagle every day?

**Arty50** · 06-22-2005, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by runethechamp

...the nerds complaining about how they were too smart to talk to "normal" people...

I ran into one of these geniuses at the bottom of 1st Divide in Downieville. Spats had flatted, and I was waiting at the bottom to make sure he made it out all right. So this guy rides up on a new Sugar, my old bike. We started talking bikes and the conversation was innocent enough. Then the moron shifted gears and started telling me about how smart he was and that he really couldn't stand most people because he was just soooo fucking intelligent. He also talked about the fact that he ate blueberries everyday cause blueberries have this special ingredient in them that makes you super smart. I just sat there for 5-10 minutes staring off into space in order to tune out this idiot's endless chatter. It's easily the dumbest thing I've ever been subjected to. There's intelligence, and then there's wisdom. It's a shame these so called smart people don't possess the latter.

**snowsprite** · 06-22-2005, 02:53 PM

People really care that much about being smart that they eat blueberries to make sure? Wow. Thank God shit doesn't increase your IQ.

Sprite

**bircheater** · 06-22-2005, 02:59 PM

I happen to work in a field which attracts some exceptionally intelligent people. None of these folks would be caught dead in a mensa meeting, because they are smart enough to dislike people who are too stupid to know the difference between intelligence and being good at taking IQ tests.