I stopped reading when you implied that IQ is a valid method of identifying an objective level of intelligence rather than a simple test to determine the relative needs of education as compared to the rest of your sample group, as Binet intended it to be. Then I skimmed through a bit because oh god, the lolz, the spaghetti everywhere. EDIT: Oh shit this is hilarious. I think I'm going to keep doing this. EDIT2: I guess you're quite the Übermensch, aren't you? Oh wait, you don't even know what that denotes. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, If you believe this, why believe that there is any past or future? If you are only an entity possessing your current self, then you can not have any valid opinions on anything that is not currently happening to you- your timeframe is so limited, your comprehension so focused on the current that any contemplation of future or past events requires the state of mind in which you were at that time. You, as a person, have no say in anything that you are not, at this very moment, doing. I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. SO BRAVE! With that said, why do you support societal choices over the choices of the individual? If you're so unique, why do you think that others have more importance than you do in a reality where the only viewpoint you will ever experience is your own? If you're aware, and you're the only person who you can ever be sure is ever aware, than the only person who matters is yourself. Who cares if your actions affect others? They're not you, you will never feel or think anything they feel or think, you will never inhabit their mind, so why care? Outside of your inherent Protestant ethic, I mean. Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. yet you don't even comprehend extremely basic philosophy about the self and society. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories. Welcome to the 1950's! just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. Perhaps you simply got it wrong? Every question of existentialism Existentialism is just one philosophy among hundreds. I, myself, as you might have guessed already (if you had even an inkling of knowledge about philosophy outside of reddit), am partial to transcendental idealism, but I'm hardly an expert on the subject. My mother's boyfriend Oh, I see where this is all coming from, now. You know, my parents divorced, too, but I didn't respond by becoming a psuedo-intellectual, I just smoked weed and read books. I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit If you're getting your sources of philosophy from fucking xkcd, you are retarded. Literally. Do you have Asperger's, by any chance? Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. What is schizophrenia caused by? Don't give me theories. Give me 100% actual proof, since you're such a genius. The difference between knowledge and intelligence, by the way, is the difference between learning things and original thought. And don't try and bullshit me with "that's not psychology", because biological psychology is still psychology. short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others Again, you lack basic understanding of philosophy when you blindly accept the power structure of others over the individual. To put it in a way you're familiar with (and that will make you feel all fuzzy and good, because you're such a special snowflake and only you will understand this!), you consciously cultivate your superego because you've internalized the message of goodness and peace and flowers and rainbows that every other schoolchild in the past twenty years has. You're not special. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect Why? If you're so special, why are you such a typical teenage liberal? I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; No, it's not. Perhaps it's rare among your peer group, i.e., teenagers, but among people who actually have shit to worry about? You know, actual people with jobs and families and experience at living? Nobody gives a fuck. You're not a person yet. Get used to it. I'm pretty much a pacifist. Again with the internalized philosophy. I can understand that some people are genuinely intelligent, and come to make life decisions and outlooks that are pretty good things to do, but you're not one of them. You're just another idiot redditor who believes he's figured everything out because, gasp, he scored high on a test that was created to ensure that everyone passed! Oh, you special snowflake! And you didn't even study, oh, a cookie for you! I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. BRAVERY LEVEL: 12/10 HOLY SHIT YOU'VE BROKEN REALITY as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community Oh, so you do have Asperger's. That clears it up even more. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me? I think you're a deluded, petty, self-centered, idiotic teenager with several identity issues and you need to be told you're wrong a lot more. I think your parents coddled you and you have a natural distrust of people as a whole, so you consider yourself above them. I think you've cultivated some sort of philosopher image about you in order to insulate yourself from the fact that your life is shit, and you have nothing to go for you besides this pseudo-intelligent pop-culture 'outlook' that you stole from people who are better at life than you are. In short, I think you're a redditor, and you need to man the fuck up. Note that I don't attempt to make any claims about my level of intelligence. I don't need to. Your desperate need to be considered intelligent is oozing through. I'm not an expert in psychology, philosophy, or engineering (the three topics that most redditors, by the way, would consider the most intellectual). The only level of expertise required for this is going through puberty, because god damn, I can smell your fedora from here.