I have the highest respect for you. I did not mean to lose your sympathy.
All I was using my test score as was a shorthand method of telling someone that yes, I am above average intelligence. I am certain that there are many people, such as you, who have higher test scores and so on. I am also certain that I could have spent a few more minutes and proved my intelligence using other methods. That was not a good argument and I am sorry.
You have my heartfelt apology. I will not be posting in any such manner again.
I am crying as I write this, because I must say goodbye to all of you. I have allowed myself to get personally infuriated with one poster, and I promised myself I wouldn’t do that.
I have no doubt that you feel very bad about whatever you said (without a link, I can’t tell), but I doubt there’s any reason to be quite so upset. We all get angry with each other now and then and say stupid things. It’s okay, and no one will think you’re awful for doing so. I’ve made a few boo-boos in my time, I can tell you.
Step away from the computer for a while, feel a bit silly if you must, and then come back and post as a person who makes mistakes from time to time (ie. a person just like everyone else). Most people on these boards won’t even notice you did anything, I promise.
Oddly, the crabby post in question wasn’t even directed at Qadgop. Qadgop just stated, I think, what many of us felt (and what Elysian now realizes): it’s pointless to trot out documentation of one’s intelligence here, and bad form to taunt someone else about how much smarter you think you are.
There are plenty of smart folks here. You can tell by the way they debate and their thoughtful contributions to threads both serious and funny. I suspect few of us care about degrees or test scores of Dopers, which may or may not correlate to the sharpness one shows on the SDMB.
Sometimes we forget ourselves and do dumbassed things. It’s good to feel some shame and contrition. I’m not sure leaving is necessary, or more redemptive.
You’re kidding? That’s your make or break criteria? Get over yourself, lots of us here have IQ s above and below yours and we get insanely aggravated at other posters for no almost no good reason at all sometimes.
Hmmm, flying off the handle one minute, crying and leaving the boards the next. I think you’ve gotten too emotionally attached to this kind of interaction, Elysian. While it’s admirable that you set boundaries for yourself for posting at the SDMB, perhaps they’re too stringent. I’m all for you taking a break from the boards and using that extra time to get to know yourself better. Come back in a month or two and lurk, then post when you feel the time is right.
I myself took a 9 month hiatus from this message board, not because of emotional reasons but because it was so darn addictive. You gotta do what’s healthy for you.
Well, y’know, I’m a complete idiot, according to all my tests. No, really. I’m a complete and genuine moron.
If anyone here thinks otherwise, it’s because I’ve cleverly fooled 'em by spellchecking the hell out of everything I write, and because of my exhaustive research work, no one has as yet realized that my illusion of clever and incisive wit is in fact borrowed heavily from obscure humorists dating back to the previous two centuries, plagiarized and homogenized. I just file off the serial numbers, paraphrase things a bit, and pass it all off as my own work.
This isn’t easy, you know. My reading skills are so minimal and pathetic, each post I make requires weeks of research. I work very hard at doing what I do here.
And I do it all to impress Qadgop the Mercotan. Ever since Hinckley, shooting presidents seemed like a bad idea.
And now, for a moment of seriousness:
I really doubt anyone here gives a shit about my IQ. This is a message board. I don’t exist for ANYONE here, except as a string of text. NONE of you have ever met me, I don’t think.
In short, I’m only as good as my last post. If my words do not impress anyone, somehow I really don’t think my test scores will. And if my fellow men would judge me, I sure hope they don’t choose to do so on the basis of some standardized test.
And funny stories about Jehovah’s Witnesses never hurt…
Elysian, that was very nice of you to apologize, and Qadgop was right, you were a little out of line, but I think you’re overreacting a tad. Come back soon, and don’t be so hard on yourself.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Quadgop, erm, Qadgop, for my continuing inability to spell his name right. (I think I got it, this time.)
I’m catching a hint of “Look what you made me do!”
You don’t ‘must’ say goodbye for using an argument that’s been slapped down. I’ve had arguments slapped down by people not nearly as smart as me, people a lot smarter than me, and MOST painfully, people I gave birth to. It feels bad, but you don’t curl into a little ball IRL and you shouldn’t here on the SDMB.
