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AvereX · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: Genius

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define it.
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RadicalDreamer · Advanced Member Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 4049

Someone who can meet the challenges that they come across on their path through life.

xinaes1 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject:

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shorty · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject:

Someone who's insight has been noticed by others.
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Trondor · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:

Someone who can come up with a radically new viewpoint. Or rather, someone who can make something new out of something old (it's harder then you think, as most thoughts you'd think are new are in fact old, perhaps even ancient)

According to an article i once read, a genius is someone who is both creative and intelligent.
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PitKnight · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:02 am Post subject:

Someone who acts on their own ideas, only to be persecuted throughout the endeavor by clods who are afraid to challenge the convention, and later is heralded by said clods once the latter actually realize their own faults (generally due to some measure of irrefutable empirical evidence).
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Thrusthamster · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:05 am Post subject:

A person who displays talent without any exertion, and is on a completely other level than most intellectually.

Usually though, geniuses (/genii? Razz

) have one particular field they kick universal ass in, so much that everyone is baffled by how the hell they do that, and thus they are called geniuses. It doesn't apply to every skilled person though, it has to have something to do with intellect.

Personally I've only met one person in my life who I would call a genius.
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Odinffs · Advanced Member Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 145

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So you wouldn't call Mozart a genius?
Or do you mean any activities in which one has to use his brain?
Personally, I think everyone who is supreme in an activity where one has to use his/her brain is a genius.
Therefore, in my honest opinion, DaVinci was just as much of a genius as Einstein.

Then again there are several ways in which a person can be intelligent, and therefore several fields in which one can be a genius. I think there's a lot more geniuses/genii (damn you!) than we know about, but most of them just never find their true potential. I like to blame the education system for this.

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KNL · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:33 am Post subject:

One who's tribute from the mediocrities is ridicule.

Oh, I love Oscar Wilde. Very Happy

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