JeffBergGold said:
BiscuitTrouser said:
Are you seriously saying physically weak people are always stupid?
Not at all.
BiscuitTrouser:
Youd have trouble taking your professor or someone of massive intellectual merit seriously because he cant launch a fist as hard as you?
If they had great intellectual merit they would value physical fitness as much as intellectual fitness.
BiscuitTrouser:
Thats utterly inane and intellectually weak to associate two things that have basically NO correlation at all and give respect accordingly.
How are the body and mind not correlated? I'm very interested in how you came to this conclusion.
People who arent strong are not stupid. But then you claim not a single person with intellectual merit wouldnt be strong. Which is absurd. I could go down to the local hospital and university labs and find many specialists who are brilliant at the field they work in and save hundreds of lives. By your definition these people wouldnt have any intellectual merit. I mean by your logic if we lined up people in strength order we would find smartest on the left and least smart on the left in descending order. This is obviously untrue.
While I agree a disciplined mind would usually speak of a well toned body i wouldnt say intelligence is even remotely linked to physical strength. Amazingly the amount of nobel prize body builders is rather low. A disciplined mind will want a good body. A brilliant mind wont care. One is far better in the field of science than the other. Also if youre working on perfection arrogance is most certainly a place to start. Also get yourself one of these using all that intellectual merit you have going.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/
Have a google of the names. Most of them are of average build.
By your logic these people have little intellectual merit. Interesting. Id love to watch you destroy them in intellectual debate and show them how to cure cancer and sequence the human genome with your bulging muscles. I really would. I mean by your logic the strongest man on earth has the most intellectual merit because he can best anyone in a physical contest.
Do you have issue taking your doctor seriously if he couldnt beat you in a physical contest? Would you let a physically weaker surgeon treat you?
I think the woman/relationships/control thing was a misunderstanding. I agree with you there.
Many find arrogance (overwhelming arrogance) to be the greatest character flaw a person can have. A false sense of superiority makes someone almost unbearable to talk to and be around. Its as weird to look down on someone and lose respect for them due to a physical attribute like strength as it is to do so for pubic hair colour. If i lined up everyone ive ever known and assigned respect/friendship to the strongest id have VERY different inferior friends in my book. It would be sad to miss out on knowing such extraordinary people just because of my random physical preferences.
Part of me just thinks this is a waste of time. Youre not going to take my arguements seriously unless they are presented by someone who is physically strong. Since ive already told you this isnt the case you probably wont even consider thinking about the points im making. If i go down to the gym and get someone to write this for me will you pay attention?
I do find your outlook to constantly better yourself admirable though even if it does instill a false sense of superiority over your fellow man. Part of me has resolved to try this outlook myself and actually get down the gym to better myself. Ill avoid the arrogance though. My head will never be swollen enough to think that those who disagree with me on the state my body should be in are inherently inferior people. Ill resolve to be like you minus that huge flaw. Like a Jeff 2.0.