Posted on 11/18/2014 7:30:03 AM PST by Beave Meister
A few years back I worked with a guy who was probably a genius. In fact, he often struggled in life interacting with people because his brain simply performed at a higher level than the average person. I remember asking him what his biggest belief was in making life decisions and he always, without fail, told me think of the bigger picture. And while Ive always tried to be a big picture thinker, knowing him when I did helped me understand it a little better.
He always told me the biggest issue he faced when dealing with people was that hed see things in a bigger scope that most people simply couldnt follow. While many people tend to not see beyond a particular moment, day, week or even month, he operated with a sense of is what Im doing now the best course of action to set me up for success not just now, but later on. He used to tell me people would come to him for advice every once in a while and often walk away angry because what they wanted to hear wasnt usually what they needed to hear. He was actually one of the first people who made me aware of the fairly obvious (though I was young and had never really thought about it) human characteristic of adoring people who tell them what they want to hear, or what they understand, while condemning those who dont. Most people really just want to be assured of what they hope will happen rather than take a good long look at whats best for themselves in the long run.
(Excerpt) Read more at forwardprogressives.com ...
Clifton: "God darnit, Mr. President, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore."
I still want to see the IQ test results.
Another gruber
‘Allen Clifton has obviously spent too much time in Colorado When away from the Dallas area. Heres his Facebook page so you can enjoy his superior intellect and the brainless logic of his fellow liberal cronies:’
Wow, he’s a real moonbat’s moonbat, isn’t he? Is it possible he’s even further to the left than Obama? I wouldn’t have thought so...but that is one weird facebook page. Not surprised he’s a terrible writer; he’s too obsessed with dissing conservatives to hone the craft.
Sorry charlie, no genius would waste so much time playing golf. Just stop to think for a moment. You led the worlds only super power. You won an historic first term election. You controlled both houses of congress. And you waste time playing golf ? If the moron would have just given us 8 years of hard work, golf courses would have been named after him. He could have spent his last 30 years playing golf every day.
I’d be willing to undergo side-by-side intelligence testing with this idiot any day of any week. I’ll even spot him a gang-over and a migraine headache.
In fact, he reveals himself in this article to be so stupid and short-sighted that it makes me wonder exactly how smart the “genius” he knew in his youth actually was.
He did inadvertently admit why he worships Barack Obama, though, when he wrote about the “...fairly obvious...human characteristic of adoring people who tell them what they want to hear, or what they understand...”
Oops! Sorry. I’ll spot him a HANG-over.
I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea about me...
Corpse-man.
So true, LSoS is the great deceiver!
We know his “bigger picture” and it’s been an historical failure time and again.
Joethedrummer, you are so right about that!
I teach kids of all ages (bass, guitar, drums, piano, and voice), and some of my kids have “Special Needs”.
I’m a pretty smart cookie (A FReeper, no less!) and yet I am able to communicate some very sophisticated concepts to a first-grader (Like the difference between Major and minor, note values, and the Ancient Greek modes, which sometimes leads to a discussion of Pythagoras’s contributions to music as well as geometry!)
One little girl didn’t understand what the lyrics to “Amazing Grace’ meant. The instant I started explaining Repentance and Redemption, she said “Like the Grinch?”
Yep...just like the Grinch! :-)
It is amazing what even children will understand if you are straight with them! :-)
So he agrees with Gruber.
Minimum wage is another issue you see this with. Republicans constantly paint it as a job killer (its not)You assume the preposterous - that higher prices do not reduce the quantity purchased. Even if, which I question strongly, a large increase in the minimum wage did not cause anyone to lose the job they already had, the number of jobs in the future which are never created is not going to be zero. It will kill jobs before they are even created - but since you nor I can see them, the eensy-weensy tiny picture view which you think of as the big picture is irrelevant to reality.
while also rallying against the millions of people who are on government assistance. Funny thing though, a good portion of the Americans who are on government assistance have jobs. If we made sure that no American working full-time had to rely on government programs just to survive, instantly we would save our country hundreds of billions of dollars over the years.That does not follow, because the young kids just starting out do not have a job yet, and you just made it less likely that they will. And, please God, there are always young kids starting out.And spare us your touching faith in education, which must be your next line of defense: those kids educations have not been improving - except to the extent that their parents are giving up on the system and homeschooling.
Allen Clifton thinks the emperor’s new clothes are absolutely beautiful too.
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