Gorgeous or Brilliant

[pclstyle]

gorgeous: can be successful on your looks alone, and you age incredibly well. you're not dumb enough that you can't control bodily functions or walk disarmingly into moving traffic, but the average adult makes you look pretty dimwitted.

brilliant: nobel prize, pulitzer, fields medal - all within your grasp. but the average female/male won't look twice at you. You're not particularly charming either. Not ugly enough to make baby jesus cry, but not quite average enough to escape being imprinted in a random passerby's memory as "ugly".



Yes, this is all trivial by nature, but it's fun to consider, right?

 

[Mo0o]

Brilliant. You make a lasting impression in history. Einstein wasn't particularly attractive either.

 

[Rubycon]

Gorgeous and brilliant.

Not in your choices but more common than you think!

 

[pclstyle]

You can be good looking enough to make an impression as well...

think icons (sexual or otherwise).

 

[dullard]

The gorgeous and dimwitted person will never know he/she has a problem. Thus, he/she is permantently happy.

The brilliant and ugly person will know of the problem. He/she will have periods if intense unhappiness.

I'd like to try the gorgeous route for a while. My GF wants me to look like Einstein though. I'm not sure why.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Brilliant. You make a lasting impression in history. Einstein wasn't particularly attractive either.

niels bohr was even worse...i cringed when i saw pics of him in my chem book

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: pclstyle
You can be good looking enough to make an impression as well...

think icons (sexual or otherwise).

Sure, but i'd rather make a lasting impression on society by making a worthy contribution that has lasting effects. As good looking as some people are, after they die people pretty much forget about them.

 

[StevenYoo]

i'd rather be smart and ugly

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Brilliant. You make a lasting impression in history. Einstein wasn't particularly attractive either.

Exactly. Beauty fades. So does brilliance, but the effect on society are more long term.

**EDIT**
dullard has a point though, "ignorance is bliss". But knowledge and intelligence is more fulfilling and fun than being ignorant and happy for no reason. Being able to figure out something, and have that immense satisfaction and yell "Eureka" while runnign down the street must be a lot of fun. While being giggly and stupid for no apparent reason lacks substinance.

 

[amish]

and then there's oppenheimer. absolutely brilliant, in the history books, yet crucified by the country he saved.

i'd rather be good looking and just get by without worrying what's around the next pass.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: DaShen
Being able to figure out something, and have that immense satisfaction and yell "Eureka" while runnign down the street must be a lot of fun.

No real science is ever done when someone yells "Eureka".

The real interesting/exciting part comes when someone says "That's odd."

 

[pclstyle]

Well, I wouldn't mind some of the perks of stupidity - being illiterate enough to not have to suffer through DA VINCI CODE

DaShen, that one was for you Fundie my ass


Truthfully though, at such extremes, I would prefer to be gorgeous. If you can imagine a lifestyle like that, where you are worshipped simply because of the way you look, placed in almost god-status without the slightest ounce of effort- it's not half bad. The amount of natural power and influence you wield is enormous. Well, maybe you'd be too stupid to use it, but still!

Being brilliant, even if you somehow concocted the cure for cancer, made only from windex and lima beans- you'd have to work incredibly hard to get anyone to notice your work. More likely, someone more charismatic, with a better "public persona" would end up taking the benefits, if not the credit for your efforts. Knowing this, and being unable to come to terms with it, would probably make you absolutely miserable.


Oh, and an accident can render both traits useless, so that equalizes itself out...

 

[middlehead]

Brilliant. I'll become a billionaire and buy some poontang.


Just like Bill Gates.

 

[Geekbabe]

I've paid in one way or another for being ugly every day of my life and I'm bright enough to know it, I'd like to try Gorgeous on for size for a change.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Brilliant. Gates isn't a sexy-beast, now, is he?

 

[imported_Trippin315]

I am neither, but I would like to be both.

 

[winr]

I am ok with my looks, I dont think I am stupid but........I have made some stupid decisions in my life.
Ok, I have made a lot of stupid decisions in my life, I trusted the wrong people a lot.

I cant decide which way to vote.




Geekbabe, you are Gorgeous, ask RedDawn, he will tell you the truth:sun:

 

[GeneValgene]

i'm surprised at the pollage results

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: winr
I am ok with my looks, I dont think I am stupid but........I have made some stupid decisions in my life.
Ok, I have made a lot of stupid decisions in my life, I trusted the wrong people a lot.

I cant decide which way to vote.




Geekbabe, you are Gorgeous, ask RedDawn, he will tell you the truth:sun:

Lol, thanks but that's not the choice the OP is asking us to make, would you choose movie star beauty or Bill Gates brains ? Personally speaking all being "bright" has ever gotten me is a really keen sense of my own shortcoming and inadequacies as a human being.Bright people frequently worry about/agonize over things that more average people would never even bother to think about. Movie star beauty coupled with enough of a brain haze that blotted out that kind of self awareness might be a very pleasant change.

 

[xanis]

Brilliant and ugly. If I'm brilliant I can at least make a ton of money, and at that point I could care less about what people think.

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
i'd rather be smart and ugly

Thats what all the ugly people say

 

[Rill22]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
i'm surprised at the pollage results

Likewise.

 

[swtethan]

both





VVV

 

[JDrake]

myself

aka brilliant and gorgeous

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Ugly and Dimwitted.

Not in your choices but more common than you think!

FIXED!