genius pan Certainly we must be guessing for nothing, really, is certain. And for the crossing there is but one direction... it is to feather the nest you are flying from... Simply, warmly, joyfully, patiently, and by the most sever penalties, one cultivates one's genius. If it is contained, and not poured into one or another vessel, or dissipated in spurious pastime, its potency will multiply and spawn a generation of creation. 981001 ... emma "feeling death ass". i really love that thing on the main page that gives out three random words. it's great. 990118 ... emily a star that burns a little brighter and usually runs out quicker. 990122 ... michelle mathematics, rocket science. sweet lovely nerds with horn rimmed glasses and uncombed hair. 990205 ... adam the narrow and poorly defined category where you stack those of us who understand the futility of life enuf to want to die. 990303 ... emma does anybody who really understands the futility of life actually actively *want* do die? and if so, how paradoxical is that? everybody always called me a genius anyway. at least i think that was the word they used. 990303 ... Owen Ty Kahle that one escaping moment right after the thought when the words come out . . . other 990311 ... nikb acuity in reality; talented beyond standardized testing. someone who lies down on the floor with the music in their head. 990327 ... marjorie when we want a tutelary god and think we've found one 991203 ... whatever "I'm a misunderstood genius." "Why misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius." 000106 ... Brad coltrane 000310 ... Brad langston_hughes 000312 ... MollyCule i prefer people to call me "brainiac" 000521 ... Steve Beethoven Ludwig Homer Mozart Rembrandt Van Gogh Cezanne Voltaire Einstein Ford Shakespeare Aristotle George Lucas 000914 ... ubliss Mr. Bill Clinton(Bill_Clinton), US' president: A genius or victim of phone_sex, which is used by human being who dissatisfied the state and affair of genuine love or sexual relationship? 000915 ... power through passion una trampa, a curse they say ignorance is bliss for once they are right technically, a genius is anybody above a certain measured IQ they even have different levels or categories of genius but they are just psychologists with too much spare time they labelled me a genius and on that day my life was over in its place rose an idealized phantom with which my poor soul cannot compete Can I beat you at Chess? If I bother to try hard, yes. Can I create music for the ages? If I thought the ages deserved it, yes. Write a book? Give a lecture? Share the benefits of my "gift?" yes yes yes but whatever I didn't ask for this responsibility a hundred faces, all smiling and eager holding out their smooth and shiny paths It's not like gentle Mr. Frost the road less taken is only meaningful if it is a clear and simple choice but if I commit to one path I see so many fallen faces it breaks my heart but I have but one life to give so I must walk my own path then I see perplexed faces but at least they are not mourning we do not have an obligation to society do not treat us like delicate flowers or like bricks of gold ours is not a "genius" friendly culture some think it is but it shall never be so long as people can be commodities so what do I want? maybe a sunny life on the beaches of Polynesia the simple charming life envisioned by Portuguese sailors of times long past maybe a social life taking tickets to a West End show real mass contact with hundreds, then thousands of wildly varied souls maybe a roughneck life feeling the rush of adrenaline mitochondria working overtime as coworkers discuss last night's sexual conquests brilliant flashes of ephemeral primal pleasure or whatever but it will be my way or I will sit and waste away like a victim of a hunger strike but instead a void of a empty soul quiero salvar mi alma pero no estoy seguro como pueda hacer esto es possible que todavia este lejano, demasiado lejos de mi pero espero... 000929 ... jane who is more of a genius: Einstein or Shakespeare? 010618 ... dB Apparently I was a "special child", that's why the education peoples in england decided to do all sorts of experiments on me as a kid. "Let's see what the 'subject' will do if we set these parameters and give him these tools" they had said. Turns out I was not 'special' or gifted. So that fucked me up for many years to follow. What defines a genius anyway? There are so many people who others would call genius for so many reasons. There seems to be no strict guidelines. 010618 ... shan is genius a potential or a demostrated level of ability? who knows. and does it really matter? strange how words like 'genius' and 'normal' and such are so common and yet so hard to define. they tell me normal is like lightspeed, it's there but nothing else is. maybe genius is like lightspeed in a different way... 010628 ... stu oh i wish i wish i wish i wish no know 011010 ... jane i am a genius 011028 ... calypso calling a genius is a person who first dares to question, then dares to find their own answers. 020104 ... bethany your hands and feet are mangoes 020606 ... ~gez~ a genius of sorts but in many more ways i am not as what i am 021102 ... [.:..The SeeR ..:.] A genius, by definition is someone who has an IQ score above 130. A genius, by objectification is one who is exceedingly gifted in one area, but, by the nature of genius, is also lacking greatly in other areas. 021102 ... Jeca *chuckles to herself* no, that's asperger's syndrome. the geniuses who are not lacking in certain fields go for political power. (the real stuff, not the place where Mr. barely got through college Dubya Bush sits now) 021103 ... p2 "exceedingly gifted in one area, but, by the nature of genius, is also lacking greatly in other areas" hmmm halfway there now i just have to become exceedingly gifted at something 021104 ... [.:..The SeeR ..:.] I'll bet you already are... the_nature_of_gifts 021111 ... p2 perhaps but not exceedingly gifted and if simply being gifted qualifies then we are all geniuses and if we are all geniuses then there is no need or meaning for such a label therefore it doesn't take a genius to deduct that i am no genius proven by the fact that i have deducted this 021111 ... [.:..The SeeR ..:.] Well, it DOES take more than the objectification issue I mentioned earlier... that thing about lacking/exceeding was just an observation (objectively) that my 7th grade teacher told me many years ago - and still seems to be relevant. For instance: Albert einstein could not tie his own shoes, and he flunked out of math in school! He couldn't handle the Algebra! Although the physics were obviously not a problem... But the actual term genius is used (correctly) when refering to those people who have an IQ score higher than 130 points. If you want to know if you are a genius go to http://www.emode.com/tests/uiq/ they have a reletively accurate IQ_test for free... and it's only 40 questions long! 021111 ... Rickster What is genius? How can we define genius when so much is possible yet we cannot pass the smallest barriers. We have had our genius' of our time, but where are they now? True wisdom comes from creativity! 021225 ... Sigh Genius of our time: Pasta Pot inventor, hooray for imbred retarded redneck's who can't use more then 3 brain-cells to think about any given task. 030407 ... beorn i am going to tell you about a genius i know. His name is james, i first met him at the sophmore retreat at the begining of this year. I was then in the winter musical with him and now we are sailing together. when i first met james he seemed like one of the normal smart kids not too hot with the social skills and all. i knew he was smart because i wasn't in any classes he took and i am average. during the musical before preformances james would play the piano for everyone. he played so beautifully all 40 or so of us involved with the play would shut up and listen. he would honor request whenever someone felt the need to share what they wanted to hear. I noticed that when he would start a song someone requested it would start of kind of sketchy with some wrong notes and slightly of beat but within 30 seconds would be flawless. What occured to me after he did this about a dozen times is that most of the songs we requested he had never played, he was reforming them from memory some he had only heard maybe once or twice before. His amazing gift of being a born pianist was only further confirmed when while the lights were being tested on stage they were all turned off. the house lights were also off and james played perfectly for a minute in the complete dark. two days ago i learned that james was going to leave my school a year early to go to college, last year he had taught himself calculus and got a 5 on the AP exam. After next year my schoo has no more courses to offer him and he must move on. I will miss james, and hopefully keep in touch. Its rare the you get to meet a genius don't let yours go. 030410 ... melvin geniuses are those who recognise they are not geniuses. 030430 ... Inanna A genius is more likely to have a child with psychological disorders. 030430 ... Inanna Abnormality is not a bad thing, but people of average intelliegence tend to isolate the abnormal ones. 030430 ... neesh on the matter of IQ, i thought firstly that it was a quotient, and secondly that there were countless different tests possible to take. so scoring 130 in a test may be amazing, but i've heard of tests out of 50,000, so it could mean pure idiocy too. it is meant to be done as a percentage, and the necessary percentage in a test to be classified a genius is, as i understand it, 98%, or at least that is the level at which mensa accept people. also, if geniuses are talented in only one thing, that may mean people like einstein, who's talent is one particular field, can't tie their own laces, but what if that talent is learning, or understanding? then they'd appear multi-talented. 030607 ... The Sound of Silence There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. -Aristotle 030607 ... tyler waters I remember for the longest time, I didn't know how to spell 'genius'. Some people would observe that and say "wow, he's a genius" i dunno how they got that connection genius' are those who understand the benefit of life-long learning [btw, scored 133.. so naner naner naner, i'm a genius in both regards.. ha!] as for that piano guy, holy crap on the AP exam ==5.. that's amazing! the test is designed so you can't finish it, and if you get enough right you get '5/5'.. i knew only one person who's got that and he sure as hell didn't teach himself calculus [he is a genius though.. micheal] 040312 ... oE well..my dad had an IQ upwards of 145 or so, two sisters IQ's around 140, a nephew with an IQ of 142 and un spectactular me...comparitively i suck..and oh yeah an uncle who is a professor at U of Penn and HE is not as smart as my dad was...so..i could site several cousins high IQ's and such but then it'd be pretty much pointless..the genuis genes seem to have skipped me..unless you count the facility with improvisation and extemporaneous composition of lyrics and araangements that just come flooding into my head at strange times..and i have to scrabble to get it all down..that and i guess my comedic timing...NOT!! no i'm kidding..about the comedic timing...oh did i mention that several of my sisters, my dad, nephews, uncles, several cousins have a photographic memory? my memory sucks..*smiles ruefully* most of my family kind assumes this pained expression somewhere in between pity and condescension when I'm around or dare to opine analytically or anything that sniffs of academia... so there..i suck in so many quarters 040312 ... one in 2500 Genius is as genius does - that is to say, what good does one's genius do if not given to the greater good or edification of humankind? Tens of thousands whose IQs place them above the rather arbitrary, (though commonly accepted) magical 98th percentile will come and go as easily as others. Love of truth is the ultimate demand of genius. Thanks be to the super-elite few who recognize this fact as it is proven in the cultivation of their respective disciplines. Examples you say? Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton,