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4thTimeLucky · 06-13-2003, 03:08 PM

Well seeing as you have kindly taken away any social responsibility (if you had said I would be a brilliant chemist with the capacity to create life saving drugs then things would be different) then I would opt to be the happy retard.

Many people would opt to be a miserable genius. I would have once upon a time.
Then I did two things:
1) Read about the last years of a number of (miserable) geniuses lives. [Nietzsche being particularly notable for going mad when he saw a man being cruel to a donkey I think it was.]
2) Realising that we value knowledge because we associate it with happiness (learning makes us happy, being smart makes us happy and knowledge gives us money, power and 'stuff').

Decouple knowledge from happiness and I opt for the latter.

06-13-2003, 03:08 PM	#26 (permalink)
4thTimeLucky Psycho Location: 4th has left the building - goodbye folks	Well seeing as you have kindly taken away any social responsibility (if you had said I would be a brilliant chemist with the capacity to create life saving drugs then things would be different) then I would opt to be the happy retard. Many people would opt to be a miserable genius. I would have once upon a time. Then I did two things: 1) Read about the last years of a number of (miserable) geniuses lives. [Nietzsche being particularly notable for going mad when he saw a man being cruel to a donkey I think it was.] 2) Realising that we value knowledge because we associate it with happiness (learning makes us happy, being smart makes us happy and knowledge gives us money, power and 'stuff'). Decouple knowledge from happiness and I opt for the latter. __________________ I've been 4thTimeLucky, you've been great. Goodnight and God bless!