Anyone interested in a "Living in the Shadows of the Gifted People" Forum?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Kind of a self-help group for those of us assigned to lives of mundacity and underachievement.

We could get together and commiserate about how the more gifted among us become the Bill Gates and George Soros's of the world while we are stuck in normal jobs doing the bidding of the prodigies of the world?

::silly:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. I'm up for it!

Sign me up

[jobycom]

2. That's pretty elitist. Like I could even see their shadows!

You and you're "I'm so much better than you because I can see the shadows of gifted people" attitude make me sick@!

[unschooler]

3. I know you're kidding, but a lot of "gifted" (high IQ) people have mundane

lives, too. The Gates and Soros types are not distinguished by their intelligence but by their drive.

[azurnoir]

5. And in Gates case

complete and total lack of ethics, and no his foundation changes nothing.

[Cleita]

40. Good point.

Being "gifted" doesn't mean you or your kid is going to be successful in life. That's drive and a good modicum of luck.

[Tyler Durden]

4. Be nice.

A 167 IQ and 50 cents gets me a cup of coffee in the break room down from my miserable cubicle.

And I did spend my grade/mid/high school years getting the snot kicked out of me for blowing the curve.

I've never made a decent buck off of my IQ.

[warrens]

6. I think I'd rather complain about how my high IQ has messed up my life

Thankyewverymuch...

[Tyler Durden]

8. You and me both, chum.

Want to hear the story about the two jocks in 8th grade who grabbed me in the gym shower and held me while a third pissed on me? They took turns and I was clothed at the time.

This was for aceing a History exam that most of the class failed. I didn't appreciate their humor much.

[annabanana]

7. "If only you'd APPLY yourself"

Having been told that by every guidance counselor encountered throughout your school years. . a requirement for admission.

[pitohui]

9. that is funny

my husband is gifted and i can assure you that he is not bill gates or george soros, but maybe i could tease him a little by joining such a group :-)

on the other hand, it reminds me a bit of hank and peggy hill, you know the one where peggy thinks she's a genius, not that she doesn't always think she's a genius :-)

[teriyaki jones]

10. Yep, high IQ without matching ambition

equals lifelong underachievement. While my sister, who has a barely average IQ but amazing drive, is hugely successful. She had more to prove, I guess.

That's my sour grapes 2 cents on the issue.

[The Straight Story]

11. Your idea here seems amazing, you are gifted. Now we kick you out

of the group you formed :)

[Quixote1818]

35. Yeah, he is too smart. We may have to open this up to Freerepublic members

in order to sustain enough members.

[NashVegas]

12. Maybe If It Were "Dancing in the Shadows ..."

Or is the whole idea to not be doing much of anything?

[cigsandcoffee]

13. Can it be called "The Mundanes?" n/t

[LostinVA]

20. Please don't make me laugh about this

The threads on this have been rather horrifying... especially the use of "Mundanes." It smacks a little too much of "Mudbloods."

However, your post cracked me up. I think that's a terrific name for such a group!

[cigsandcoffee]

27. God, you'd have to laugh.

I about choked when I read that this morning, and was only thankful I was not too bound by my "obscured vision and slower, less complex thought processes" to understand the complexities of the discussion.

The mundanes, indeed.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. I can snuff out candles with my farts at 20 paces

Does that make me talented and gifted? Or is that just mundane underachievement?

Or do I need my own separate group?

[wryter2000]

15. Can we have an underachiever forum?

I'd post there if I ever got around to it.

[Quixote1818]

36. Sounds like a lot of work.

:beer:

[uppityperson]

16. How about a procastinators forum. Maybe I'll start a thread tomorrow

[nuxvomica]

17. What does "mundacity" mean?

I looked it up and I can't find it.

[AlienGirl]

19. Combination of mundaneness and mendacity?

[nuxvomica]

26. So it's a portmanteau then

I thought only giftated people came up with those.

[cigsandcoffee]

31. A wha..? A what? Portuh... Port... Wha?

(brow furrowing)

[Quixote1818]

37. You are clearly too smart to be here

nt

[Contrary1]

18. Only if I can be President...

as I am the most understated, unknown, underachiever of all time.

[porphyrian]

21. So, intelligence is the category it's acceptable to discriminate against..

...on DU? I don't really care whether or not there is a gifted peoples' forum or not, I just think it's funny that this is the issue everyone feels they can turn into bigotted assholes over irrationally. I guess tolerance has to end somewhere, and it apparently ends when you're more intelligent than most people and have the nerve to point it out.

[patcox2]

29. No, arrogance is the quality its okay to discriminate against.

If you had seen the post he is referring to, and weren't not so much offended as disgusted by how some smart people are so stupid when it comes to interacting with other people, you would understand.

[RagingInMiami]

30. It's not intelligence per say

But the fact that anybody can just claim to be "gifted" or more intellectually superior than the others. And in establishing that image, they expect everybody else to just take their word for it.

Well skeptism and intelligence are not too far apart.

[hfojvt]

38. hey, it is just a user-name

and it was meant to be a joke/riddle (as in Wile E. Coyote's business card), but I do not expect anybody to just take my word for it. I am ready for a duel - differential equations at 20 feet. :P

[TahitiNut]

41. It's "per se" ... not "per say" (sic)

If you were 'gifted' you'd know that. :evilgrin:




:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lilith Velkor]

22. ...

:nopity:

[Ganja Ninja]

23. No grammar cops allowed right? n/t

[azurnoir]

24. Almost reminds me

of a science fiction story clled Null-P about humanity breeding for the most average person and the end results. Wm. Tenn was the author.

[yorgatron]

25. sign me up!

i've always said,the smartest thing you can do is figure out how dumb you are.

[Skidmore]

28. And all this time, I just thought it

it was overcast. You mean it wasn't a cloud standing between me and the sun?

[patcox2]

32. I feel sorry for those who are superior to me, they need our understanding

Its hard to be brilliant in a world full of idiots, that was clear from the posts on the gifted group thread, thats why I proposed a group for "self-pitying underachievers," it got locked, but here it is again anyway:


We need a group for self-pitying underachievers, and for those who think they are underachievers but who are actually performing exactly at their level of intellect. A place where we can put our elbows out congratulating ourselves on how brilliant we are while looking down our noses at the "dull normals" who are such an inconvenience to us. We can also spend time rationalizing our own failure by blaming it on our very brilliance, engaging in the "starry starry night" self-congratulatory brand of self pity, as we whine to each other "this world was never meant for one as brilliant as me."

[patcox2]

33. You've got it wrong, the truly gifted are too brilliant to succeed!

Their brilliance is a detriment in this world filled with mediocrity. Or at least its good for the ego to imagine thats why it is you are a failure, anyway.

Sociopaths almost all feel that that way, BTW; they feel they have special, but unrecognized talents which go unfairly unrecognized. This allows them to develop their pathological form of selfishness in which noone else matters, and all of their bad behaviors are justified by the injustice done to them.

[Finder]

34. Isn't that the lounge? lol

[alcibiades_mystery]

39. We need a "Me and My Friends Used to Beat Up the Gifted Kids" Group

That's right. Not "My friends and I." No sirree. Me and my friends.

And, judging from the gifted clowns thread, they never even got that ultimate revenge they were pining for as they nursed those fat lips! Quelle dommage! :rofl:

[Quixote1818]

42. How about the "Living in the shadows of the gifted people brains

that are hanging out" Forum. Those brains are so HUGE they leave big shadow.

[Skinner]

43. Locking

ENOUGH!