were people 700 years ago way smarter than today?

[David Hayward]

The human species gets a little dumber every time someone reads one of raaaaaaid's posts.

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

The human species gets a little dumber every time someone reads one of raaaaaaid's posts.

...and gets a big time dumber after one of yours, genius

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Jatta Raso

...and gets a big time dumber after one of yours, genius

Right back at ya, champ!

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

Right back at ya, champ!

that makes sense. we all know you're as smart as to believe your own s***.

[Jatta Raso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g

no i don't think we are devolving, rather that we're just not evolving any more, we've stagnated, and the power that technology brought us ends up showing our fails better because they get bigger and more serious.

example:

100 years ago ecological insensibility caused localized issues at worst, today it threatens life on a planet-wide scale.

same with war: while 100 years ago a world total war would bring misery to half the world, today it would destroy it.

and with financial corruption: 100 years ago greed, economy schemes and financial fraud were responsible for wide spread social problems; and a period of social revolutions followed everywhere in the west, however, today the same issues are destroying our basic liberties and conquered rights on a global scale.

anyway let's hope this trend is disrupted, as technology is now bringing us a lot more information than the ones that allowed us to have it ever thought it would, and that might just lead us to a global conscience that makes us reject the corrupt covered dictatorship regimes we're all living in.

i hope, someday; we all deserve better than this.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

The human species gets a little dumber every time someone reads one of raaaaaaid's posts.

I would be willing to to bet raaaids actual IQ is higher than a lot of people who post at this forum.

raaaids posts are a little off the wall sometimes, but i find most of them entertaining and interesting.
Would i want to be stuck in a lift for 24 hours with him?...well...i dont know about that...but i bet he would come up with some ideas of how to get us out, and some of them might not kill us.

You carry on raaaid!

And no people are not any less smart now than 700 years ago, in fact people 10,000 years ago were just as smart as us.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Intellegence and wisdom are too very different things.