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Most Important thing you've learned in your life?

paranoid android said:
Never to say "well fuck now i really have seen it all". Every fucking time i say that something comes along and proves me very very wrong :(
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there's nothing wrong with being wrong. actually it is the best thing to discover, as it often leads to growth.
 
It's best to soften into situations than to tense against them. Pragmatically this happens on a breath by breath basis.
 
P A has reached memetic levels

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nb. that is PA in the second frame. ;)
 
^I lold heartily.

Last night, my entire city went dark - no cell towers, no power. Then the sky started strobing every color in the spectrum. It was pretty dramatic and pretty spooky. I turned out to be a busted transformer or some such shit.

But I mean, christ, is the world over yet?
 
That the easiest way to tell if someone is NOT intelligent (granted, I have VERY high standards for what I consider intelligence) is that they are religious. Of course, like all generalizations, there are exceptions...but this one is one of the strongest generalizations out there.
 
LogicAndReason said:
That the easiest way to tell if someone is NOT intelligent (granted, I have VERY high standards for what I consider intelligence) is that they are religious. Of course, like all generalizations, there are exceptions...but this one is one of the strongest generalizations out there.
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The existence and/or significance of the supposed negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity is pretty contentious. When you disregard third-world shitholes, whose rates of religiosity are on par with the average individual's exposure to environmental lead and life-threatening, neurotoxic infectious diseases (too many confounds), and focus exclusively upon 'developed' [wealthy, politically powerful] Western states, the correlation is considerably weaker. See here and here.

Though your post veered dangerously in the direction of hate speech, I'll let this one slide. If it can be kept civil, this topic (the negative statistical relation of intelligence and religiosity) could make for a good thread topic of its own.
 
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LogicAndReason said:
That the easiest way to tell if someone is NOT intelligent (granted, I have VERY high standards for what I consider intelligence) is that they are religious. Of course, like all generalizations, there are exceptions...but this one is one of the strongest generalizations out there.
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There are ancient theologians that are smarter than you'll (possibly) ever be.
 
From a surprise question on the final exam for one of my abs. algebra classes: the most important thing so far that I have learned in my life is that you can utilize Lagrange's theorem to prove that any group which has a prime cardinality p, for some integer n where (p,n) = 1, then n^(p-1) is congruent to 1 modulo p. The trick is using the fact that any group with a prime cardinality (cyclic group) is isomorphic to the set of all congruence classes [a]p (modulo p) such that a and p are relatively prime (which is itself a cyclic group), then moving on from there. Upon figuring it out, it was the moment I knew I wanted to focus my life on learning algebra.
 
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LogicAndReason said:
That the easiest way to tell if someone is NOT intelligent (granted, I have VERY high standards for what I consider intelligence) is that they are religious. Of course, like all generalizations, there are exceptions...but this one is one of the strongest generalizations out there.
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i know an easier way.
see, people who vaguely generalise tend to be really stupid. some of them are also pedophiles.
 
Apostacious said:
From a surprise question on the final exam for one of my abs. algebra classes... Upon figuring it out, it was the moment I knew I wanted to focus my life on learning algebra.
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wait untill you see Galois theory... that's the most beautiful algebra ever... you will be dancing on the table for sure.
 
Psyduck said:
wait untill you see Galois theory... that's the most beautiful algebra ever... you will be dancing on the table for sure.
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I've skimmed ahead a little bit and it does appear interesting (like how it is used to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra), though there still are a couple levels of abstraction between what I understand now, and what I will understand when I have to start studying Galois theory.
 
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