badge73 - 16/8/2013 10:20
agree its all in balance jim, have seen various documentaries of kids running around villages in africa playing with dung beetles or those out of a rain forest completely happy whilst the kids around here are claiming depression and pressure ...
suppose im quite lucky and even some people are jealous, i work when i want, and enjoy my job, can go to the pub when i want and with in reason do what i want, yet as poor as a church mouse compared to others. suppose its what actually makes people happy or even to the debate those with intelligence to know it.
kefkat - 16/8/2013 11:47
They were rich in love and all the real meaning of Christ's message.
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 16/8/2013 10:50
The article doesn't mention money or qualifications. These are assumptions made by people here.
The criteria outlined are used by many people, in different trades, for different ends, and is not necessarily linked to A'Levels or Degrees.
Green Tea - 16/8/2013 12:44
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 16/8/2013 10:50
The article doesn't mention money or qualifications. These are assumptions made by people here.
The criteria outlined are used by many people, in different trades, for different ends, and is not necessarily linked to A'Levels or Degrees.
I was remarking on this part of the article;
“Intelligent people typically spend more time in school—a form of self-regulation that may yield long-term benefits… More intelligent people get higher level jobs [which] may lead to higher self-esteem, and encourage personal control beliefs… more intelligent people are more likely to get and stay married… though for intelligent people, that too comes later in life. We therefore suggest that as intelligent people move from young adulthood to adulthood and then to middle age, the benefits of intelligence may continue to accrue.”
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High level jobs should not necessarily mean higher intelligence. Many people may work in art and crafts, childcare, caring for the community etc because it's what they enjoy. Yet these jobs, are they classed as lower level because the pay isnt that great, or the criteria to achieve such jobs is obtained over a shorter period of time?
And self esteem from a high level job? I would say there is no shortage of ignorance or a personality that is verging onto a control freak but I certainly wouldnt call it self esteem!
If you want self esteem then give all your money to the poor and work as a missionary as Kat mentioned above- it will blow your mind away.
CDX_EIRE - 16/8/2013 12:38
I didnt read GTs post til now he has a point he should have thrown in the quote about the kid being asked what he wanted to be in life he said happy, the teacher said I dont think you undertsand the question and the kid says you dont understand life... You all know it I forget who says it...
One thing tho GT I dont how happy you are but if you believe the earth is 6,000 years old, we lived side by side with Dinosaurs and the Earth is flat then you are as thick as two short planks...
Green Tea - 16/8/2013 13:06
CDX_EIRE - 16/8/2013 12:38
I didnt read GTs post til now he has a point he should have thrown in the quote about the kid being asked what he wanted to be in life he said happy, the teacher said I dont think you undertsand the question and the kid says you dont understand life... You all know it I forget who says it...
One thing tho GT I dont how happy you are but if you believe the earth is 6,000 years old, we lived side by side with Dinosaurs and the Earth is flat then you are as thick as two short planks...
(Not flat Earth) and that is just your opinion, im sure we can both live with it..
According to science, mammals didnt live with dinosaurs - until that is, they found evidence of such and then the page "just" gets re-written. Your world exists of pages saying one thing for years and years and then they get re-written when they realised you have all been duped. Which page will be next on the agenda that has to be re-written? And how many pages are you now believing to be true that will be re-written in the future? = How is that intelligence?
You believe in predictions, theories and guesstimates. I believe in history as foretold by our ancestors. You will die knowing the page you believed in can be re-wriiten, I dont have that problem.
Green Tea - 16/8/2013 13:42
New research told us this Heath(which of course was written in the bible all along that both mammals and dinosaurs co-existed). Yet if you check your science history, there was a time when science told us that mammals came AFTER dinosaurs. Yet science is allowed to dupe the public with predictions, theories and guesstimates - then just change them at a later date once they realise it was wrong. And nobody blinks an eye! How can you die knowing the page you believe in could re-written at a later date? And yet im mocked for believing in pages that have stood the test of time...Crazy!