LJ cuts are for shit you don't write...oops

[vicarz]

_blackjack_ laid out the bible - which is good as when I said that it was full of pushes to help the poor, a bible-thumper told me I was wrong. Thank you, Mr. Cross-religions studies.

Biblical verses condemning homosexuality: Less than 7 (translations and context of these are unclear)
Biblical verses condemning abortion: 0
Biblical verses condemning gay marriage: 0
Biblical verses condemning stem-cell research: 0
(the above 3 are cheap shots Sir, as the knowledge was not available)

Biblical verses about duty to the poor: More than 70
Biblical verses condemning war: More than 70
Biblical verses condemning greed: More than 90
Biblical verses exalting peace: More than 100
Biblical verses condemning falsehood: More than 100
Biblical verses condemning hypocrisy: More than 200
(fuggin awesome)

Politics that I lack the time to verify stolen from I forget which friends:
http://www.chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm iq vs. votes (guess who is blue?)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hardvice/166338.html (prettier version)
http://www.ginandtacos.com/education.jpg educ vs. votes

I can't vouch for these sources, but had I time it would be easy to verify the figures against stats I'm
sure. I see no ushc accusations from the other side, though I did see some websites saying Bush had a
marginally higher IQ. I dn't believe that for a second.

In other news,
eBay - I discovered eBay, bought a pair of sketchers which had a razor slit through the back that I couldn't see in the picture (described as a small tear) but that's still $20 for $50 shoes. I have to see if there is anything to do to repair them.
I just accidentally bought 2 pairs of size 8 combat boots, one for $5 and one for $10.
eBay is ok until you get to the shipping charges. It's also addictive as all hell - I'm scared to move out of clothes.

Social skills and marketing:
I'm back to noticing that a majority of my classmates are not doing the readings for the class, or only reading the study-guide version of the cases. I read the entire thing every time, isolating myself from all other activities to do so. I'm working harder than most, and achieving far less. IQ?

I have to argue against my tendency to think I 'deserve' more grades than those working less than I. They are expressing a skill which is valuable in the workplace - they socialize and network to achieve more. That is a marketable skill, particularly in the area of law where soliciting clients is godly important. You do not get As for efforts, and most of my life I've achieved more in school with less effort than my peers. I just finally hit the group that can outdo me on that front. Now would be the time to lean on them, to share efforts - but I lack the desire. I'm losing this race, not just based on IQ per se but on my lack of initiative socially. But...I am not about to remedy the situation. I'm ok with many of my peers, but don't really like them. I don't take the initiative, and most social groups are already formed. So I continue to work in isolation, fucking miserable, not doing well, and fully aware that it's my own damn fault but were I given another chance I'd probably return to this square one.

I also ignore the fact that many of these people work in lobbying firms, PR firms, political campaigns (they are happy about the election), and the government. They mock government workers, yet they are working in politically appointed jobs and doing all their law school study on the clock. They are wasting their own tax dollars, and ours, for their own benefit. Then they complain about government. Notice fuckthesouth was calling the states that mock the government the most suck from it like a tit.

Actually that lack of desire to socialize with individuals I meet, yet desiring the benefits of socialization along with the fact I generally like to socialize given the right people leaves me kinda fucked. I suck at boxing primarily because it's something you only learn by doing, and you can only learn so much alone. I suck at lifting weights because that too is a better team sport, as is running and any exercise...it's social. I do better in groups as does everyone, friends push each other and note weak areas while helping you through them. I see it around me, but I am still a geek working alone. At work I do socialize and it benefits me greatly, but only since I just happened to bump into groups of people I like. I've been hated here out of envy because I was a suck-up to my bosses, when frankly I just happen to like them (my boss left though, and I'm still sad about that). I also just generally care about my work, so one person's integrity and effort is another's suck-up.

So that leaves me where...realizing my lack of desire to socialize while still having the desire to have the benefits of socialization leaves me fucked. Yay. I recognize the problem, but it seems the goals I wish to achieve - and am willing to work very hard at in terms of intellectual and physical effort - I lack the desire to pursue in the social avenues that would help me achieve those goals. Am I more or less of an idiot for realizing what the problem is, and not fixing it? I can't make myself want things, a lack of desire is just that. Hell, my fitness freakiness is rooted no small part on my frustration with people - I want to be able to resort to violence when other avenues fail me. This election is a good excuse for knowing how to pummel, since facts are no defense against idiocy.

Yeah, I really need to get the fuck out of school. All work and nothing but sporatic socialization makes me a mean miserable nazi.

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

I'm back to noticing that a majority of my classmates are not doing the readings for the class, or only reading the study-guide version of the cases. I read the entire thing every time, isolating myself from all other activities to do so. I'm working harder than most, and achieving far less. IQ?

This is true of me, as well. I'm attributing it to a) age (my memory is much less keen than it was at 22 and b) my herculean problem handng stress. Perhaps the memory/inability to process information thing means I have a lower IQ, but is a construction of a bunch of different things. You have to ask what they are.

[joanarkham.livejournal.com]

I think some people just test better, too. I was always able to get by with skimming in the courses I wasn't really into, but I didn't really retain anything either.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_blackjack_/]

the above 3 are cheap shots Sir, as the knowledge was not available

Abortion was absolutely known in the ancient world: not surgical abortion, but the use of abortofacient herbs and potions.

Gay marriage? Well, not in those words, I guess, but homosexual relationships of various kinds were pervasive enough in the Graeco-Roman world that you'd think it would have gotten some more than vague mention if it was a really big deal.

But, yeah, the stem-cell thing was a delierate cheap shot.