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What Is Intelligence?

by GoingSomewhere @ Thursday, 25. Oct, 2007 – 14:11:22

My post of the other day has raised a few questions about the nature of intelligence.

I'd love to know your take on the matter. So, how would you define intelligence? Also, is it something you're born with, or can you acquire it? Is it possible for intelligence to diminish? To what extent do you think it's possible to assess one's own intelligence, and can such an assessment be relied on?

I know some of you have already made some valid points, but maybe you have something more to add? Anything (not just answers to the questions I have posed) anyone would like to say on the subject would be welcome.
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Today I am thinking ...

by GoingSomewhere @ Tuesday, 23. Oct, 2007 – 15:27:21

Is an intelligent person who believes themselves stupid, intelligent or stupid?

Is a stupid person who knows they are stupid, stupid or intelligent?
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R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

by GoingSomewhere @ Sunday, 07. Oct, 2007 – 09:40:31

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone

Several of my friends here are having a hard time right now (yes, I have been reading), so this is for them, and it's for me too.
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