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[Elly]

Love probably being the worst but the stock market is another example. The most intelligent people will lose everything if they don't have the character required.

Yeah - it's easy to get 'caught up' in stuff that you 'want' badly - so much so, that all good sense goes out of the window. 

[scotnadian]

Is this how you talk on a date, Emma?

[Emma Jean]

So are you saying that only people who are truly aware of absolutely everything are intelligent?  If so, I'd say that that's an impossible criteria to fulfil.

Also intelligence and emotions don't often go too well together.  Head tells you one thing, heart tells you another, and I reckon there are a lot of intelligent people who wished they'd listened to what their head was telling them where romance is concerned. 

I wasn't talking in the dating scene sense of course but more in general. Yes, it is an impossible criteria to fulfill mostly because of our limited ability in the physical realm. That's why I said only a handful people can be 'intelligent' in that sense. I'd say once you know and understand who you truly are, only then you can be truly aware of things; hence, Socrates' know thyself. He's definitely trying to tell you something there. A Master himself. Also, I'd say Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, Moses and later Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Deepak Chopra etc. (and a few more perhaps) are/were all truly intelligent beings.  Because they all more or less knew the true meaning of life therefore, their emotion and intelligence would always be in harmony.  Both their heart and brain would agree on the same thing. 

But I am not judging that woman who made the mistake and moved in with a guy she hardly knew. It's only through mistakes we get to learn the real deal so I kind of welcome it. It's just that some are highly evolved beings and tend to learn much quicker from their mistakes than the rest of us. But even so, I don't think anyone can learn about everything in one lifetime but that's a matter of a separate discussion.   

[Aileen]

I wasn't talking in the dating scene sense of course but more in general. Yes, it is an impossible criteria to fulfill mostly because of our limited ability in the physical realm. That's why I said only a handful people can be 'intelligent' in that sense. I'd say once you know and understand who you truly are, only then you can be truly aware of things; hence, Socrates' know thyself. He's definitely trying to tell you something there. A Master himself. Also, I'd say Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, Moses and later Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Deepak Chopra etc. (and a few more perhaps) are/were all truly intelligent beings.  Because they all more or less knew the true meaning of life therefore, their emotion and intelligence would always be in harmony.  Both their heart and brain would agree on the same thing. 

I know you were talking in the general sense, but you're referring to people who have, or had, attained full spiritual enlightenment (I'm not sure about Einstein though), and people like that are very rare indeed.  I was thinking more about people we can all relate to, i.e. those who live in the physical realm.

[scotnadian]

I asked you a genuine question, but I guess you don't want to discuss it.

Goodnight.

[Mark]

There are only a handful of people who are overall intelligent. Most people can be very intelligent about one or some things but utterly dumb about other things. To me, the word 'intelligent; means being truly aware of things.

I was strongly agreeing with you as I read your comment and then you dumped that bit at the end. Oh well, we nearly had one of those rare moments.

[Clydey]

I wasn't talking in the dating scene sense of course but more in general. Yes, it is an impossible criteria to fulfill mostly because of our limited ability in the physical realm. That's why I said only a handful people can be 'intelligent' in that sense. I'd say once you know and understand who you truly are, only then you can be truly aware of things; hence, Socrates' know thyself. He's definitely trying to tell you something there. A Master himself. Also, I'd say Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, Moses and later Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Deepak Chopra etc. (and a few more perhaps) are/were all truly intelligent beings.  Because they all more or less knew the true meaning of life therefore, their emotion and intelligence would always be in harmony.  Both their heart and brain would agree on the same thing. 

But I am not judging that woman who made the mistake and moved in with a guy she hardly knew. It's only through mistakes we get to learn the real deal so I kind of welcome it. It's just that some are highly evolved beings and tend to learn much quicker from their mistakes than the rest of us. But even so, I don't think anyone can learn about everything in one lifetime but that's a matter of a separate discussion.   

Deepak ******* Chopra? That's like dropping Sarah Palin into a list of the world's most enlightened individuals.