Damn, she beats me by 1 point. I was told I have an IQ of 153. I’ve taken those practice Mensa tests and didn’t find them too rough, so I really think I could stand a chance at becoming a member. That and $2.75 will get you a decent latte.
Does this mean I’ve never made a bad decision, used faulty judgment or did something extremely stupid ? I’m human–what do you think?
Do I maybe learn things a little easier than some other people? Yes. Am I smarter than some other people? Yeah probably. Do I think I’m smart? Oh hell no! I know many things, this is true, But I am only smart enough to know just how little I know about the things that are important.
When I can figure out how to teach people how to learn the value of the human spirit that lives within them and every single person living or dead and how to nurture that spirit until it is strong and healthy and vibrant and undeniable and uncontainable and then maybe I’ll be smart.
And then when I can figure out how to teach people to love themselves and each other for what they are instead of hating them for what they are not, then maybe I’ll be smart.
And when I can teach people how to realize that while we all have the same basic physical, mental, spiritual needs, we sometimes must balance the accomplishment of these goals in very different ways, and maybe I have something you need and maybe you have something that I need and maybe together we could help each other.
And when I can teach people that no one is exactly the same as any one else and we are not supposed to be. Perhaps our whole reason for being here to to try to find out what we have to learn so we can in turn pass that knowledge on. Perhaps we are all supposed to both teachers and students to each other. I think that sounds about right.
And when I can first learn all these things I know I don’t know and then all the things I don’t even know I don’t know yet, then maybe I can begin to pass that knowledge on. Then maybe I’ll be smart.
Sheesh, I’d have done it, if only for the money. Especially were I a beautiful blonde; it’s not like there are a lot of GOOD roles out there for someone who gets written off as just another bimbo and gets threads dedicated to how silly it is to think she might have more brains than a stump. And as she ain’t exactly Merchant Ivory material talent-wise (there is no correlation between intelligence and acting ability), her career path doesn’t sound all that dumb to me.
Maybe it’s crass, but it’s Hollywood and anything that might set one apart from ones competitors, might get people talking about her, or, especially, if it MIGHT cause a director to think of her as something other than a bimbo, is fair play. For all we know ahe let it drop in a conversation with her publicist who has taken it from there.
This thread smacks both of an anti-beauty bias but also a perverse attitude that only unattractive people can be intelligent. Some of you have shown that you are as prejudiced as the people we consider the enemy. You should be ashamed.
Now, if THAT doesn’t get Ms Stone to sleep with me, nothing will.
I saw her on Larry King 10 or so years back when she was just coming (sp?) on the scene. Mention was made of her intelligence and at the time she also displayed a wonderful mix of freshness with just the right amount of self-assuredness. Nowdays? I wish that freaking Kimono had bit her tit off.
It’s possible. She’s obviously intelligent but she’s also a long time, absolute master manipulator of the media and has been known to be ummmm… “creative” with her personal info. when it suits her mood or inclination.
She was called on this a few years ago when she was addressing with some disabled group and sympathized with them claiming she had suffered some related terrible disease (brain tumor some type of cancer IIRC). When the tabloids tried to dig into this claim it was cited by her PR flacks as being “all a big mis-understanding”.
I recall CNN assuring us a few months ago that AOL was about to release some revelutionary software that would radically improve the internet. For some reason, it didn’t qualify as newsworthy on the other networks…
Then again…Sliver, Sphere, The Quick and the Dead…Just remember that IQ is not an indication of common sense. **
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A couple of years ago, while staffing the registration desk at a regional gathering, I was approached by one of the speakers asking if I could suggest a “hook” for her topic (organization, IIRC). My suggestion: rather than “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich,” use “If you’re so intelligent, why ain’t you smart?” The implication: intelligent<>smart (duh!)–and I can use myself as a textbook example. Couldn’t go to her session, but I understand that her hook got a pretty decent reception.