bdaric said:
I think of itelligence as someones potential.
That's nice bdaric.
Under such assumption, a real doctor and a spiritual healer are on the same level. They both had potential to serve humanity.
The problem is that the real doctor prescribes you a medicine when you are sick and suddenly you feel better.
A spiritual healer tells you to jump up and down and drink three shots of chicken blood and suddenly you still feel sick, later on you continue to feel sick, and if the disease is life threatning you will end up dead when a real doctor could probably had saved your life.
Ok bdaric, potential equals intelligence according to you, but to me intelligence is manifested in doing, not merely in wishing.
Thus, to me, potential is simply that, potential. Intelligent are those who take advantage of their potential and actually do something with it.
bdaric said:
So instead of putting oneself on a pillar above others and looking down on those less fortunate, be a little more forgiving for peoples faults. They may not be as bad or evil as you think.......
It's not a matter of being perceived as bad or evil or of not forgiving people for their faults.
It's a matter of recognizing different roles different people have in the overall running of society in general.
We are all made of flesh, muscle, and bone. We all have the same basic needs and the same basic desires in life.
But, that is only part of the story because, like the old saying goes, every mind is its own world.
Every person has his/her own personality, accumulated knowledge, style of being and that is what makes each person unique and different from all the rest.
Some people recognize those differences and celebrate them while others like to hide behind false pretences that just because we are all made of the same material, somehow we are all the same when in fact we are not.
If you need a hand, I'll offer mine. But please, don't think that you and I see the world in the same manner, because the truth is that we don't!
If we did, there would be no need for democracy, no need for individual rights, no need for anything that attempts to ensure balance between what essentially are different types of people!
-NALs