Can intelligence bring you security?

[Toad]

Me and Chris were talking about woman on MSN and he told me the reason he does everything is for intelligence so that he can have security.

I totally disagree that intelligence brings security.

What do you guys think?

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

i want intelligence for identity

i think it varies

 

[Felan]

You are only as secure as your weakest link. Ignore the body too much and it is the source of your insecurity. Ignore the mind too much and that is. Ignore a means to support yourself and you must rely upon the charity of others.

I am a bit uncertain how you do something for intelligence though. Is there an example that might clear up my confusion?

 

[Decaf]

it depends on what you mean by intelligence. When I read up on the Trail Blazers they call it basketball IQ, so I guess in these terms its life IQ (unassociated with the tripe called the intelligence quotient). Its the ability to realistically anticipate what life is going to throw at you and prepare for it. To see into the future, maintain focus on the present and not get trapped in the patterns of the past.

If that's what you mean when you're talking about intelligence, then yes, as much security as you can ever hope to have as long as its coupled with discipline. Everyone comes to table finding at least one of those requirements fairly simple. Compared to some I think INTPs can be downright clairevoyant, but absent-minded and lacking discipline. I don't want to take either of those two traits out of the definition of intelligence because (1) they're necessary for success and (2) they are all accomplished with the reasoning centers of the brain.

 

[Ermine]

I think intelligence can bring both security and insecurity at the same time. My intelligence and desire to know everything about a decision before I make a decision is one of my bigger insecurities. I'm so indecisive because I tend to intellectualize the issues at hand.

At the same time, my intelligence makes it so I never have to worry about academics. I have always been very successful in that part of my life, mostly because I'm intelligent. It all depends on how you focus the intelligence.

 

[Sugarpop]

Intelligence as in good cognitive abilities or as in information? Security as in confidence or as in the absence of harm?

 

[Fedayeen]

depends on what you mean by security. If you mean peace of mind, as in feeling secure. then Possibly

 

[Anthile]

Intelligence means potential. What you do with your potential is up to. Not always, but mostly.
So what do you mean with "security"? Really security or rather confidence?
Intelligence alone does nothing, mind you.

 

[Cryss Winters]

Intelligence as in good cognitive abilities or as in information? Security as in confidence or as in the absence of harm?

Absense of harm.
Red Toad asked what I lived for, if not for fucking woman. I said knowledge is most important to me. He asked what I wanted in life, I replied security. Then said that's probably due to not having a very stable enviroment most of my life.

 

[Decaf]

No amount of intelligence can protect you from having your house smashed by a meteor while you're asleep, so obviously there is not "absence of harm" guarantor. No one has a secure environment, but you can craft a relatively stable one.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Ah, but an intelligent person would live in an underground bunker.
Primarily because temperature control is far cheaper and by having the structure underground the surface of the land can be used for other purposes, like a big garden or another house above ground that can be rented out.

And of course then there's the whole survivability thing.

 

[Cryss Winters]

I like the way you think, Cog.
haha I'd totally live in an underground bunker.

 

[Toad]

Ditto. I would love to love underground. Lighting would be a bitch though

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I say we shang-hai the bunker under the Greenbrier resort for our own purposes. If some disaster does befall humanity, it is highly likely that the leadership of the US played some role in it and thus doesn't deserve to be sheltered. We here on the other hand do.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Lights based on LEDs are cheap and plentiful.
Wind utilising electric generators are also much easier to get these days,
effective too.

 

[Toad]

I think we should use mirrors or fiber optics to filter down natural light. We need the sun's vitamins

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I think we should use mirrors or fiber optics to filter down natural light. We need the sun's vitamins

Not if we want to become Morlocks. I could go for some roast Eloi right about now.

 

[Toad]

Thread has officially been derailed

 

[Artifice Orisit]

It's gone underground.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Thread has officially been derailed

And does that make you feel insecure?

 

[Toad]

Nope I only feel I insecure when it comes to human relations