It would have been better if I had written "subjects" instead of "things." Oh, well.
Another part of the problem is that many people take longer to grasp math than others, so it is easy for them to become frustrated and resentful. (A banal thought, I know.)
It isn't necessarily cowardly. If a person has been diagnosed with ALS and would rather get it over with than physically deteriorate, then he/she has my sympathy. What makes the issue complex, though, is that it's easy to say the above when the victim isn't somebody who is close to you.
When it...
I think they seem that way because they're relatively strange, but doing anything well is hard. Here I go bringing up art again, but I'm most bewildered by sculpture. I don't "get" good sculpture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo%27s_Moses
How a human can create that is beyond me.
I...
I think it comes down to what type of thinking one is most comfortable with. There are definitely many individuals who are more intellectually inclined to certain fields than others. I always liked this scene from Good Will Hunting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKu_QQVHJLA
It would be bold...
Define "liberal arts." I've always found the way people use this term to be vague, so I searched it on Encyclopaedia Britannica, and according to it the liberal arts include the humanities, mathematics, science, etc. But maybe we all make everything seem more important than it actually is. We're...
I didn't say I was hurt by it, but it was snide. It's the same as not feeling insulted by being called an idiot, but recognizing that it was an insult, or it was meant to be one. I was actually happy it was said, because it's much better to be acknowledged (in whatever way) than to be ignored...
If a snide remark is all that you can come up with, then I'm satisfied with my reasoning. Still, I'm not arguing for the importance of studying art academically--though I certainly don't think that it's worthless. I'm just arguing that many different things are important to the human experience...
Why is science objectively more important? One can't make a sweeping dismissal of endeavours and achievements based on which category they fall under. Would you really say that knowing why grass is green is a more impressive and significant achievement than the Sistine Chapel? Or that knowing...
Based on what what I've read in other threads like this one, many, if not most, PF posters haven't taken an IQ test, so we probably wouldn't be able to give you an accurate idea of where you stand as compared to the forum as a whole. However, I can tell you this: the quality of your posts will...