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Yahoo Answers V. The Cesspit Of Stupidity

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Yahoo Answers has to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious places on the internet.
A hub for the maladjusted and the educated alike.

If you have a particular gem of a thread then let us share in the ridiculousness of humanity.

One of my absolute favourites is: Is Stephen Hawking Dumb?

Some Dick said:
As televangelist John Hagee once said, and I am paraphrasing, "there are people out in the world who are so smart they are stupid." That means there are a lot of intelligent, educated, book-smart folks out there- people who are very KNOWLEDGEABLE about certain types of info but they lack street-smarts or common sense or the wisdom to deal with certain things and function in everyday life. Mr. Hawking is credited as being one of the smartest men alive, but he depends on his wheelchair and an electronic voice box to communicate with and he has a debilitating disease. He once said "he was finding God." I am not judging. All Mr. Hawking has to do is to go to a good faith-based Christian Church, give His life to Christ and ask God to HEAL him. The Lord would help him with his scientific research and reveal to him all the stuff he is trying to find out on his own. I think the man is very ignorant about a lot of things. If he hears about God and refuses to get Saved then that makes him STUPID. Ignorant means you know something, stupid means you do know but refuse to acknowledge it.
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As televangelist John Hagee once said, and I am paraphrasing, "there are people out in the world who are so smart they are stupid." That means there are a lot of intelligent, educated, book-smart folks out there- people who are very KNOWLEDGEABLE about certain types of info but they lack street-smarts or common sense or the wisdom to deal with certain things and function in everyday life
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Pretty damn good answer imo
 
The fundamentals are very true, and he/she is applying them to a spiritual perspective to exemplify that despite his IQ, intelligence as a whole is far broader and is wrong to judge someone from only one aspect of intelligence

Bit OTT at the end and impressing their own beliefs somewhat, but still makes a decent point regardless (IMO)
 
I assumed when he/she said God would heal him, it was referring to the healing of his soul and ignorance, not to grow a new pair of legs and vocal chords lol
 
I don't think anyone would dispute that academia is not the only fact of intelligence. Christopher Marlowe was a genius playwright (IMO/YMMV/FUKU) but stupid enough to start a fight in a London slum tavern while he owed out masses of money...
The theological side is one I shan't get into because I have my own strong views which would take up the whole thread and that was not the intention when I started it.
I'm far from a genius but I like to think of myself as appreciably intelligent - I have the spatial awareness of a blind goat and literally struggle with nets of cubes.
 
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