Intelligence and Loneliness

Smart people typically think about space more than sex. They're usually the ones putting robots in outer space, checkmate bruh.

But what about people with different types of intelligence getting together? Like a nuclear physisicist getting it on with a grade school counselor?
 
Smart people typically think about space more than sex. They're usually the ones putting robots in outer space, checkmate bruh.

But what about people with different types of intelligence getting together? Like a nuclear physisicist getting it on with a grade school counselor?
i would feel uncomfotable thinking about a nuclear physicist getting it on with someone from grade school.
 
The most intelligent people I have known have always had solid, long term relationships in which there was very little conflict. They find a partner to match and stay. And they use their minds in an emotionally intelligent way to connect to others, which is how those relationships begin.

Only morons think intellect can't be harnessed to emotion.


edit: no powerleveling here, I'm only a standard level of wit.
 
i would feel uncomfotable thinking about a nuclear physicist getting it on with someone from grade school.

Me too. The physicist would be so far above the grade school teacher in IQ it would be like they were dating an animal. It would be less creepy to see him with one of the students - at least they might be as smart.
 
Me too. The physicist would be so far above the grade school teacher in IQ it would be like they were dating an animal. It would be less creepy to see him with one of the students - at least they might be as smart.

This is total nonsense. I get what you're implying, but I don't think it's true very much at all, and it's borderline insane to think it is.

Firstly, it is completely possible for someone very qualified to be in the scientific field to fall for a Joe/Jane Everybody who might not even be close to their 'intellectual' level, based solely on the fact there's something about their personality they like, or they still share interests despite the huge disparity between actual measured intellect, or even their career fields.

And while yes, the really dumb people I know you're talking about would probably never cross paths with said physicist, but I don't think it would be akin to a drooling baby trying to date a 30 year old. There would just be no connection and they wouldn't have anything to talk about; not "This person is too stupid to exist". Maybe some of their actions, but not the person themselves.

This is feeling like Dragonball Z and powerlevels, where you guys are taking the actual numbers too literally. Not everyone with the smarts to know how to approach a relationship will always be working for NASA, and will only then be attracted to someone exactly the same.
 
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As a very very smart person (source: I created asperchu) I have this to say:

It is very easy to say that dumber people are luckier than you. But look at every single relationship you know, and ask yourself, would you really be willing to be with that person? A lot of relationships happen because the participants are scared of being alone.

Maybe intelligent people are a little more willing to wait to find a partner that isn't destructive to their life. It's a very easy trap to tell yourself "I'm not going to find anything better", and believe me, there are plenty of stupid people who aren't happy with their relationships.
 
Has anyone else noticed a corrilation between level of intellegence and likelyhood of said person not being in a relationship? It seems like smart people never are able to find true love and dumb people who listen to top 40 and are generally dumbass as all hell are able to fuck whenever they want to. Why is this? Is there something inherent in intelligence that makes it so that people aren't willing to find you sexually or even emotionally attractive?

This thought came to me as i was listening to the fantastic record by indie legend Weezer known as "Pinkerton" in which a Harvard Graduate student can't find love, only cheap prostitutes and underaged japanese girls. This really got me thinking as to why someone as intellegent as River Cuomo (lead singer of weezer) wasn't able to find true love, despite being of high intellegence.

What are your thoughts, kiwis?

First off my OCD is kicking up because we have a thread about intelligence and my spell checker just went crazy when I quoted this post. Autism, away~!

I think the problem is most morons don't know what honestly makes a good relationship. In most good relationships, there is a leader, usually the guy, and the follower. If you have two leaders, you have a two headed dragon and those are only good for eliminating and grinding XP for.

If you are really intelligent, how are you intelligent? Is it rocket science stuff which is good in a profession, but not good in interpersonal situations? I know some people who are wicked smart, and are extremely good in reading people and getting along with pretty much anybody who isn't an ass. Those people I usually gravitate to, usually as their juniors in intelligence and learn from them.

The key was simple when I was around these people, they wouldn't look down on someone who couldn't learn as fast as they could. Usually in most of these people they would be the type who encourage growth in that person. They were positive, really great people, not "nice guys" and women, but just damn decent.

If you transfer that into a relationship, ask yourself do you really need someone to match your IQ, or match your character and morals? I'd take a chick who was average IQ if she had the willingness to learn, was a personable moral chick, someone I could trust, and was an extremely trustworthy companion. A woman who can cook and clean a house, with good interpersonal skills and child raising abilities is more valuable to me than a lawyer with a 150+ IQ and can't relate to me let alone an average person.

I personally are around a lot of people who can't keep up with me. I don't treat them like crap or push them away unless they act in a fashion that demands it. The end result: lots of friends and a string of gfs in my past. My current best friend was attracted to my friendship because of who I was, and not how quickly I could learn. I didn't let my abilities or lack thereof define how I was going to see her and treat her.

If I ever decide to be dumb and get married, it's character first, then looks (and looks are extremely important to me.) I don't need to mix super high IQs to make a master race of Wraiths.

Maybe there is a better less long winded way to say it, but for every Batman, there is a Robin... wait... not that type of relationship, more like for every Clyde, there is a Bonnie. Who leads, who follows, what is the division of responsibilities, how do you compliment each other, stuff like that becomes more important. Those things bind people together better than plain IQ.

I couldn't get romantically involved with someone extremely limited, but I do have a track record of being around people and kind of boosting them from where they are to what they could be. Having that attitude at times attracts people to you. It becomes easy then to form relationships when you don't look down at people. It's less isolating. One thing I have used my intelligence for is to become more personable. It's one thing to learn a series of facts or skills, it's another to learn to be a better you. That erased barriers for me.

OCD ramble: - done.

Smart people typically think about space more than sex. They're usually the ones putting robots in outer space, checkmate bruh.

But what about people with different types of intelligence getting together? Like a nuclear physisicist getting it on with a grade school counselor?

Someone mentioned Albert Einstein. Every really smart or intelligent person I have met were horny dogs and cats. Anecdotal, yes, but it is what it is.
 
Smart people typically think about space more than sex. They're usually the ones putting robots in outer space, checkmate bruh.

But what about people with different types of intelligence getting together? Like a nuclear physisicist getting it on with a grade school counselor?

Maybe the nuclear physicist is a complete social retard and can barely deal with social situations, and the grade school counselor (who probably has at least a degree and maybe even an advanced degree in psychology) is great at that stuff.
 
Yeah, is it truly intelligent to think that you're alone because you're just too smart? I think being smart would realize that bitterness is leading you to find convenient excuses for why you are alone rather than acknowledge the real, possibly inconvenient, truth.
 
f you are really intelligent, how are you intelligent? Is it rocket science stuff which is good in a profession, but not good in interpersonal situations? I know some people who are wicked smart, and are extremely good in reading people and getting along with pretty much anybody who isn't an ass. Those people I usually gravitate to, usually as their juniors in intelligence and learn from them.
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Maybe the nuclear physicist is a complete social exceptional individual and can barely deal with social situations, and the grade school counselor (who probably has at least a degree and maybe even an advanced degree in psychology) is great at that stuff.
Which is usually the case, with some entertaining but endearing results.

Someone mentioned Albert Einstein. Every really smart or intelligent person I have met were horny dogs and cats. Anecdotal, yes, but it is what it is.
It was a joke, the bit about space and putting robots in it. :tomgirl:
 
i am inventor of 3d sex toys on the internet

I am a pretty imaginative person but I have to say I am confused at how that even works.

It was a joke, the bit about space and putting robots in it. :tomgirl:

Even so, I read some new articles years ago saying old Al was a real horn dog. Weird how things end up.
 
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