Your opinion?

Question

"God puts on this earth dumb or smart, pain or no pain. Those of us who have the worst in life are dumb and can't feel real emoitional pain, Those of us who have everthing are smart and can feel pain. Very seldom does God make us dumb and have everthing or smart and have nothing. God makes it so we can not suffer. But every so often he will make true people. People who see both sides and feel all the pain. Which one are you?"

I found this qoute and liked it. But do you agree? If not, why?

Just because I like it doesn't mean I agree, I just like the thought of others. Really, I think it offends people, and make them like it less.

Answer 1

They're teaching Emotional Intelligence in some large corporations now. EQ may be more important than IQ or half of it. When you can't even handle small slights, with EQ you can handle deap hurts and even turn on morphine-like endorphines through itntuition, the connection to the right hemisphere and the subconscious, the 90 percent they say we don't use. You have to be sensitive to it, the thoughts you usually ignore because you are so smart, the "odd" ideas that come to you so it's true enough. Seeing the truth in another person starts with listening and getting what they are saying. I suspect your intuition is getting the saying, while your conscious mind is wondering why you like it for the common objections stated by some.

Answer 2

I think I and most people would choose the third option, that I am a true person who sees both sides. The only problem I see with the quote is it says those people are rare.

Also, I think that wallowing in emotional pain is a dumb (although sometimes unavoidable) thing to do, while dealing with it in a constructive way is smart (though sometimes difficult).

I don't know if this appertains to the question, but I was woken up the other night as a mouse got caught in a glue trap. Regardless of how dumb the mouse is, and the fact that the trap was designed to be physically painless, I am sure the poor thing was feeling a great deal of emotional pain, i.e. fear and terror, mainly. Sure it would be nice to pretend that suffering isn't there because the mouse was too stupid to be aware of it, but God didn't make the world that way.

If you believe the quote, it allows you to decide that some people and/or creatures are unworthy of empathy, since they are too dumb to feel pain.

Also, if you are a person who has nothing and is in a lot of pain, accepting this viewpoint would put you in a position where you can claim some kind of moral victory without any further effort or accomplishment. I would say anyone in such a position is _absolutely_right_ in standing up for themselves as a "true person" but there is no need to categorize "most other people" in a dehumanizing way.

Answer 3

"God puts on this earth dumb or smart, pain or no pain"?

I don't necessarily agree with the basic premise.

"Those of us who have the worst in life are dumb and can't feel real emoitional pain?"

Although we're never capable of knowing what others actually 'feel', as opposed to the outward manifestations of pain, I think most evidence argues against this premise. Stupidity is pervasive enough in humans to provide us with a lot of observational data. There's nothing to suggest intelligence has any bearing on the degree of pain humans feel.

"Those of us who have everthing are smart and can feel pain"

I've never encountered anyone during my 63 journeys around this star, who believed he had 'everything'. Some who had a great deal and wanted more appeared to feel pain about the fact they had less than they wanted. But, while they usually didn't sense pain in others, they were certainly aware of their own.

The fact you found this quote and liked it tells an awfully lot about you, and the perspectives you've chosen to adopt toward other humans. But it doesn't make much sense to [this] one who has chosen other perspectives about life.

Answer 4

friend , I feel that all you have said are the brainwashing by the religious groups , to make you and I surrender to their wise advice and fall in line.

God , if IT is there ( I am a believer) , is not a person to take revenge , or to create discord among its creation . God`s creations abound , all over the universe and they are all in harmony and at peace. Like a big mountain , small river , large trees and tiny insects the varieties are innumerable and humans , too, are just one species.

The one thing God gave to the humans is the mind and a thinking power. If the humans are not able to put this to their good use donot drag him ( IT) into controversy. You fall prey to the religious heads who will atonce tell you why such things happened!

Answer 5

i think that we all suffer in some way in life, no matter what kind of person. and all humans can feel pain. real, emotional pain. i don't think that God limits the "dumb" people to not feeling pain. The homeless aren't all out on the streets and under bridges being emotionally numb. On some level, they know what they lack when they see those nice bmws pass by on the streets

Answer 6

ok
God put us on earth as equals
but some don't have the same strengths as others
someone may be more musical and someone else may be better at math but the point is that any one can do anything if they put their mind to it and do it thru God
but just because someone has more then another doesn't mean he's smarter then another he could have done that thru cheating instead of telling the truth and being humble

the poor man could be but maybe theres a sad tale behind his poverty
u see we only know what we can see but those who have faith r above all others

Answer 7

I disagree. Who said being dumb is a curse? or being smart a blessing? It is impossible for anyone who isn't omniscient to compare someone's whole life to another. And then you will have to pick a subjective base of which to judge which things are good and which are bad.

Answer 8

I like my inspirational quotes to at least have an element of truth. This has none.