Intuitive Insight of either the Profound or Profanity

[dark]

I am going to keep this shorter than my usual threads... yeah I know I've said that before.

Has anyone else every noticed when they start to explain a concept or idea to another person(s) they end up making some profound statement that was almost on accident and it changes others views? I think this is why people think I am brilliant despite the lack of knowledge in my head. I was talking to a friend that has a lot of knowledge and he told me that I was the definition of brilliance. Well that also stemmed from the fact that I come up with ideas independently and later finding other people like Kant or Nietzsche said way before me.

I guess this would be intuitive insight of the world around, something I've been doing since I was a little kid. Of course not all of the random ideas I come up with are even rational, like the brain and body symbiotic relationship I wrote about with the hope of entertainment back oh so long ago.

 

[Sijov]

Brilliance, I suspect, is mostly what you do with the information you do have, rather than how much of it you possess, though obviously they complement one another. I always find that I can do a lot with a little information, make connections back to my general knowledge, see clues and more ideas that others won't. I agree with you that we have insight into the world around us.

 

[nanook]

i am so speculative, it hurts. really. it's difficult to deal with. because i keep forgetting, that it's all just speculations. i know they are good, alright. they really are. other people can't do it like i can. while the flow of my speculations is just that effortless, it's not literally coming out of my ass. it's made out of star-stuff. relying on my speculations isn't as bad as listening to your government. but the ego identifies with thoughts. that's what it does. it believes in thoughts. it lives in them. so telling your self rationally: oh i have not proven this concept [and this concept, and this concept] does not make any difference [it's just an after-thought, another darn thought]. you still live inside the world of your speculations. what are you gonna do? kill yourself? if your world is just speculative, then you are just a speculation, in it. that's what it's like. to be creative like fuck. in that particular way.

>I agree with you that we have insight into the world around us.

yeah, i've got it all under control

 

[lucky12]

Saying something out loud in general for me opens a different perspective, resulting in unseen circumstance(s).

 

[Dapper Dan]

Unfortunately, I find it terribly difficult to do this on purpose. Like, I know I understand an aspect of something that will be beneficial to someone else, but either my explanation doesn't get the idea across or I can't get my thoughts in order before conversation moves on.

So aggravating.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I have experienced what you are describing before (dark). In class one day, we went through a long and tedious lesson, which I accurately summed up in exactly two sentences. Unfortunately, I have the Dapper Dan issue. I can only rarely force it to occur.

 

[Fallenman]

Actually, I had experienced what you had experienced for the vast majority of my life until I went to my first intro to philosophy class, in which I took samples from the greatest minds in philosophy who all shared the ideas I had spent my young lifetime producing. It was too overwhelming for me to escape the impression it left upon me. I had gone to a community college intending to major in political science, never once really putting much emphasis in philosophy. I would take two political science required classes, and a philosophy class for fun. By the end of my time at community college I had finished both philosophy and political science pre-requisites, and i ended up transferring to a university as a philosophy major.

I agree, brilliance isn't knowledge, its those intuitive leaps, knowing how to use knowledge to make ground breaking insights, which we excel at.