Which is more Important ?

[sharpies]

wiping your ass or cleaning it after probably is wiping your ass or cleaning it after probably is

Not necessarily - toilet paper has only been around for a couple of hundred years - before that in the west, we used rags or our hands & then washed them afterwards (at least I hope they did). How about if you were in the middle of Africa, would you know which leaves were the safe ones to use & which ones left a giant rash on your ass.

i like to think we have more things in common, breathing, thinking, feeling....then we dont have

These things are automatic & autonomous, you cannot stop doing these things - they, in fact, require no intelligence or "common sense" whatsoever. Even the biggest idiots in the world breathe & think, just look at the KKK, or George W.

Allan

 

[icecuban]

Not necessarily - toilet paper has only been around for a couple of hundred years - before that in the west, we used rags or our hands & then washed them afterwards (at least I hope they did). How about if you were in the middle of Africa, would you know which leaves were the safe ones to use & which ones left a giant rash on your ass.



These things are automatic & autonomous, you cannot stop doing these things - they, in fact, require no intelligence or "common sense" whatsoever. Even the biggest idiots in the world breathe & think, just look at the KKK, or George W.

Allan

thats my point, having to clean, like having to breathe, the ways in which are best, in what areas are debatable, but its all the same need....as for the idiots, i agree, they may be idiotic to great degrees, but common ground can be found in metaphors that are ripe with commonalities. its the ability to find the most common, and build a bridge there.

 

[Maritxu]

People have the same emotions and most of them are even expressed the same way among human beings from all over the world. People still suffer anywhere in the world when they lose someone they love and they are happy when they fall in love. We really should respect differences but focus on similarities.

 

[IntruderLS1]

Even the biggest idiots in the world breathe & think, just look at ... George W.

Weak. :fing27






:lol2::lol2:

 

[UncleBacon]

I would say common sense....intelligence is useless if you don't know how to apply it

 

[GraceAbounds]

I think you need both to succeed, but common sense is more important for survival.

If Albert Einstein didn't have the common sense to not step in front of a bus, we wouldn't know that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

I agree. I'm on the side of common sense as well.

In the Bible it states: Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls.

 

[icecuban]

I agree. I'm on the side of common sense as well.

In the Bible it states: Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls.

what u say, i agree with, but what do you find more important when it comes to making your point and helping others, common sense, or does it take intelligence to come up with such a valid statement most people can understand, or a bit of intelligence to understand your meaning? i think most people who would be deemed "unintelligent" could understand what you said quite well. is that a matter of common sense, or intelligence, for the reader being able to understand your point, and for you being able to express it?
maybe they are hand in hand, im still trying to figure out the difference between the two as i type this,lol.

whatever the answer is, i hope in the case for common sense, and intelligence, that they are both used for a good purpose. what is deemed "common sense" should be great thoughts, that hurt nothing, and promote goodness. if something is going to be considered common, it should be thought of as good. and the same for intelligence. if something is deemed intelligent, then let it be based on its ability to not hurt anything, and promote goodness, like its counterpart.lol.
having said that, if they both promoted the welfare of existance, then i would have to find them equally important.

 

[All Else Failed]

Both are equally important.

 

[Magic P]

I would go for common sense. If you don't even have common sense to know the simplest things in life, how can you have intelligence. Even if you can, you are still a stupid person who I won't date.

 

[icecuban]

I would go for common sense. If you don't even have common sense to know the simplest things in life, how can you have intelligence. Even if you can, you are still a stupid person who I won't date.

but does it take a bit of, if i can call it this, "inherent intelligence" to fully comprehend what seems simple? i feel in every simple action, there is a reflection of the big picture. some people take what is simple and common for granted, and do not give it much thought. im starting to think this is more of a chicken and the egg type of senario. what was more important, the egg for the chicken to come from, or the chicken to lay the egg, and which is needed first? does one need common sense to aquire intelligence, or does one need some intelligence to get the most out of their common sense?