I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but it seems to me that the people that act and talk and think they are really intelligent are actually idiots. They go around sticking their nose in the air and debating idiotic things hours upon hours and get nowhere.
They don't see things that are right in front of them and are almost too smart for their own good. A lot of them don't have common sense. Anyone else notice this at all or at least kind of what I'm talking about?
I couldn't really find the right words to explain so sorry if I offended someone or if my point isn't coming across because I may have said it wrong.
2006-12-28 08:23:52 · 11 answers · asked by Abungaboo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No suprising answers so far. I figured people would be defensive and close minded.
2006-12-28 08:29:44 · update #1
I don't know where you think you are getting by insulting me. I could really care less what you think of me. Try answering the question properly or do something else useful and stop wasting both my time and yours.
2006-12-28 08:31:38 · update #2
If anyone has seen or read "Gulliver's Travels" that would kind of be what I'm talking about. The people on the floating island that are so caught up in being intelligent that they are actually idiots.
2006-12-28 08:33:24 · update #3
What you're talking about is pretentiousness. Certainly there are well-educated people who are very pretentious and yet who have very little life experience or common sense. This is especially true of people who were born into wealth and prestige and who received an excellent education at superior schools simply because their Daddy went there first. But there aren't really very many people like this in the world, now, are there?
The majority of the well-educated people I know personally are neither pretentious nor lacking in common sense. They are capable of intelligent debate about issues both abstract and concrete, and they generally have a lot more world experience than uneducated people do. And when I say "world experience," I don't necessarily mean traveling the world and staying in expensive hotels; most of these people tend to get "out of their box" and are exposed to various different cultures and lifestyles a lot more often than your average redneck does.
So while I would agree that having a clichéd silver-spoon upbringing and education doesn't necessarily make you a more well-rounded or intelligent person, I really many people like that in reality, not here in the United States, anyway. I think that so-called "common sense" depends primarily upon having been exposed to a variety of situations and a variety of different cultures during one's life, and higher education is certainly one way of broadening one's life experiences, not only via classes but via social interactions as well.
2006-12-31 08:16:04 · answer #1 · answered by magistra_linguae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Common Sense...Mmmmmmm...... who can say what is common sense or not.... what is common sense to one person does not necessarily mean it is common sense to an other.
Common Sense has too broad a meaning and cannot always be used in a situation.
To be well-educated does not necessarily mean that they stick their noses in the air.......I think you have been leading a very narrow existence and need to get out in the world and see people for the person and not what you think they are because of their education, the way they talk, etc.etc. it seems to me you tend to stereotype people.....open your world and mind.......people from all walks of life can be very interesting and educational to everyone.
No I am not a well educated person....just educated.
2006-12-28 09:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by Sunseaandair 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes the people who are most interested in books, grades in college, etc. enjoy spending their time that way and thus, do not pursue a social life. This leads to being socially naive, almost as though they lived life in a bubble and were unable to deal with many social situations. MANY people I know are "book smart" and not "street smart". I wouldn't say they were stupid, just that their intelligences lay in other areas.
2006-12-28 08:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
From my experience: People who think they're smart but really aren't are idiots. People who really are smart usually aren't idiots.
Maybe you're running into the people who only think they're smart, or maybe the people who really are smart are too smart for you so you just don't get them.
Edit: After reading your past questions, I am now convinced you are a troll. I really like the PetSmart question, but the others... not so much.
2006-12-28 08:50:19 · answer #4 · answered by Penguin King 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, stupidity is defined as a lack of common sense. And, yes, I've met a few very well-educated people with a lack of common sense. So, to answer your question, some "smart" people can be stupid, but so can people who don't have the education. Common sense, or lack of it, knows no boundaries!
2006-12-28 08:31:47 · answer #5 · answered by bellegurl17 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
some idiots are really intelligent like Me
nominated for valedictorian of My high school
graduated with honours from college
but still silly some times because being silly makes Me laff and that the best medicine in a mixed up world that hates Me.
2006-12-28 08:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by Lord of all Earth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd really love to see what you believe are "things that are right in front of them". I bet it has a lot to do with god.
Back to your point, no, smart people really are smart, and people who call smart people idiots really are idiots.
2006-12-28 08:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by noestoli 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No honor killings are haraam in Islam. they're achieved via people who're uneducated and have no sturdy Imams or Sheiks to instruct them the deen wisely. homicide is against Islam. Adultery is punishable via stoning to loss of life for married adult men and married women folk caught interior the act and in the event that they provide 4 witnesses(that's impossible immediately except your extremely ill and demented). Sura 5:32 as a results of this, we decreed for the youngsters of Israel that all and sundry who murders somebody who had not dedicated homicide or horrendous crimes, it somewhat is going to be as though he murdered each and all of the human beings. And all and sundry who spares a existence, it somewhat is going to be as though he spared the lives of each and all of the human beings. Our messengers went to them with sparkling proofs and revelations, yet maximum of them, after all this, are nevertheless transgressing. Sura 4:29-30. 29.O you who have faith do not consume each and each others' homes illicitly-basically matually appropriate transactions are prohibited. You shall not kill yourselves. God is Merciful in direction of you. 30.all and sundry who commits those transgressions, malicously and deliberatly, we condemn him to Hell. that's trouble-free for God to do. 31.in case you refrain from comitting the gross sins prohibited for you, we can remit your sins, and admit you an honorable recompance.
2016-10-19 02:35:42 · answer #8 · answered by binnu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you didn't say it wrong; you made it perfectly clear how small and petty you are. Try getting a good education yourself and see if that nonsense about "smart people are really stupid" still holds.
2006-12-28 08:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think the stupid one's ask stupid question's! hint
2006-12-28 08:30:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋