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Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?
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@Chicken-meat Ofc it is...I can't go around making every lame idiot my friend :shrug:
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@DarkIce69 lel but how about a good hearted "idiot" intelligence is good for conversation and reliability depending on what ur doing, But I believe a friend that is there in need no matter what people is perceived as "dumb or smart" is emotionally smart in my books of a friend indeed.
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I mean, not really. as long as they're smart enough to know how to be a decent human being, i'd be up for it.
then again, intelligence isn't everything.
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@DarkIce69 said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat Ofc it is...I can't go around making every lame idiot my friend :shrug:
THATS BAD ATTITUDE.
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@Indrid-Cold said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Zen00 Having a dog is a good example of friendship per se. Doggys have lightning fast thinking, and maybe that's all you need. They know what they want, they know what makes them smile (dogs smile, though, don't they? They do, though, don't they?), and intelligence doesn't much enter in to it.
For example, I could make a very elaborate, wordy joke about a certain politician* being a bellend, citing party dynamics and the history of British politics, and say it to my pal, who is non-political, but he'd still laugh because A. He'd find my emotions funny and B. It's plain to see the guy in question is a bellend.
Yeah, that's kind of what I mean by purity. As long as things are kept real, free from the artificial, then a friendship will be built
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imo being yourself is more important irrespective of people's views. Life is life, short or long, using it how you want is more important then some persons views of you.........
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@sup That ain't attitude..it's just a choice u know...I like intellectual peepz more so I make them my frnds..that's all.otherwise, no offense to the less intellectual ones.
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I think to a certain extent yes, it becomes infuriating to talk to someone who is constantly ignorant, but it really depends on the persons' disposition as well. People who are smart and have a bad disposition are unlikely to have a lot of friends. People who aren't smart but always think they know everything are likely to have the same result. For me personally, as long as someone is making the effort to understand even if they don't really understand I'm okay being their friend as long as we are just talking intelligence wise.
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@DarkIce69 said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@sup That ain't attitude..it's just a choice u know...I like intellectual peepz more so I make them my frnds..that's all.otherwise, no offense to the less intellectual ones.
Its your call.
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@Jeweliesays said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
I think to a certain extent yes, it becomes infuriating to talk to someone who is constantly ignorant, but it really depends on the persons' disposition as well. People who are smart and have a bad disposition are unlikely to have a lot of friends. People who aren't smart but always think they know everything are likely to have the same result. For me personally, as long as someone is making the effort to understand even if they don't really understand I'm okay being their friend as long as we are just talking intelligence wise.
Thats actually a very good answer
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@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
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@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
Well isnt that weird, how do u even know if they met the "required intelligence level" before u even talk to them
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@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
Well isnt that weird, how do u even know if they met the "required intelligence level" before u even talk to them
They say i am an excellent judge
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@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
Well isnt that weird, how do u even know if they met the "required intelligence level" before u even talk to them
I just drink and i know things
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@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
Well isnt that weird, how do u even know if they met the "required intelligence level" before u even talk to them
I just drink and i know things
Drink presumably alcohol? So like dumb and dumber
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I don't think so? I don't know but I think a sense of humour and being a good friend and having a decent conversations is enough to make friends. I lack sense of humour, that's why I only have few friends, some acquintances but that's it. I'm really envious of the other people who has that because they can easily have friends unlike me :'(.
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@Chicken-meat I guess intelligence is important to an extent. I.E. I have really good friends that I play music with and who are loyal and quite fun and entertaining to be around. I don't think and I might be wrong on this that they would have the correct answer of a complex problem that would require a relatively high level of intelligence to correctly answer.
I also have a few extremely intelligent friends that are so profoundly intelligent they give me headaches trying to understand the meaning of what they have said.
It's too bad that intelligence doesn't come with the wisdom to use it wisely. Common sense just isn't very common any more. -
I'll go ahead and change the scope a bit: Is it important to have friends who are as intelligent as you? To this question I'd definitely answer with a yes. A rough one of course, no need to compare IQs... But I think it is very important to have people around who can understand you, or you'll kinda always feel lonely and not understood, no matter how many friends you have (who don't understand you). This of course can also happen if intelligence is there, but communication of what's important is not.
If you have friends like that, maybe even only one, then you're alright. All other friends can be dogs, cats and mountainlions @Zen00 :yum:, no need to match any intelligence standard.
The most important thing for me in a friend is trust. I need to be able to trust them. The more I can trust them, the deeper the friendship can be. To be trustworthy to me, you'd need to be confidential (e.g. never talk about my secrets, and that's that), you need to share some very important values with me, you need to be kind towards me and others, well and we should have something in common to do or talk about. Pretty simple actually, but hard to find.
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@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Rendezvous said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
@Chicken-meat said in Is intelligence important to you for making a friend?:
Yes totally, I don’t talk to people who don’t meet the required intelligence level
Well isnt that weird, how do u even know if they met the "required intelligence level" before u even talk to them
I just drink and i know things
Drink presumably alcohol? So like dumb and dumber
Not in a mood of a fight, sorry
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@Rendezvous its okay just that ur dumber than a bag of bricks and ought to not talk to urself cos I dont think u fit the "required intelligence level"